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malletKAT Quick Start Guide
GATE TIME
How long a sound sustains
If you just tapped the pad and there wasn’t any Gate Time control, every sound would be
extremely short. The Gate Time Setting allows you to decide how long the sound plays
when you are not stepping on the sustain pedal.
On the malletKAT, the Gate time is set in milliseconds. 1000mS equals one second.
If the Gate Time was set to .250mS, then that would equal 1/4 of a second of sustain.
To change the Gate Time:
Step on and Hold down the Edit Footswtich
Tap on the high D natural pad (GATE)
Use the Inc or Dec pads (C#-D#) to get the value you want.
When you go there, you might notice that the value is set to “VELOCITY”. That is because
the malletKAT has the ability to change the gate length of a sound by how hard you are
playing. This makes the notes sound more musical because every note is not the same
length. If you Step on the Edit Footswitch, tap on the D pad and then Tap on the Forward
Key, you will see some new screens.
The first tap you will see ROLL MODE. This mode should be turned on (by using the INC or
DEC pads) if you are playing timpani or some other sound that want the roll effect.
If you tap on the Forward Key again, you will see the Velocity Shift settings.
There is a min and max setting. This is the range of Gate time going from soft to loud.
Making a range say from 250-150 means that as you play harder, the sound will last a
shorter amount of time.
You can navigate through the min and max setting by using the Forward or Backward pads,
and you can change the values using the INC DEC pads.
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