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malletKAT Quick Start Guide
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FACTORY KITS,
USER KITS and CHAINS
A KIT is another word for SETUP. There are 127 FACTORY Setups in the malletKAT. These
FACTORY Kits are designed to work with an EXTERNAL sound source that uses the GEN-
ERAL MIDI Standard. This is a collection of sounds that has a standardized Program Num-
ber List. These Kits can be temporarily edited, so that it can be stored to a USER kit, but
the Factory Kits themselves can not be permanently altered. As soon as you leave a Kit,
the default parameters return. Also, these FACTORY Kits are not meant to be used with the
internal Kurzweil sound card built into the malletKAT. If you do call up a Factory Kit when
using the internal sound, you will get unexpected sounds or no sounds at all. This is not a
malfunction. When using the malletKAT 7KS, go to USER Kits.
There are 127 USER KITS stored into the malletKAT 7KS. These Kits have been prepro-
grammed at the factory, but they can be edited and saved by you. You can always get the
original Kits back by performing a reinitialization of the malletKAT.
The sounds that you hear when going through the Setups are a sampling of the sounds
that are built into the malletKAT.
Once you get going, you are going to want to put your favorite sounds in a particular order.
That is what a CHAIN does. In other words, a CHAIN is a collection of your favorite SETUPS
in the order that you want them. There are 16 different Chains, that is 16 different collec-
tions of Setups.
A Chain therefore is not an additional User Kit. So when you are editing a sound when you
are in CHAIN Mode, you are really editing some User Kit. You can find out what SETUP you
are working with in the CHAIN by tapping on the SETUP pad to see what USER KIT you are
in.
We will explain how to make up your own CHAIN in the next question.
When you are looking at your display, notice the first letter on the screen. You will either
see an (F) for Factory Kits, (U) for USER Kits or (CH) for CHAIN.
To go to these, step on the EDIT Footswitch and hold it down.
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