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malletKAT Quick Start Guide
PLAYING SOUNDS
Are you ready to check out the malletKAT? If you have a malletkAT KS, turn it on now and
start playing. A listing of USER Kits is found on page 32. If you have an external sound
module, make sure that you plug a MIDI cable from the MIDI OUT port on the malletKAT to
the MIDI IN port on your module. There is another MIDI OUT port on the malletKAT on the
right side of the instrument. You can use that as well.
When you want to change a sound, tap on either of the rectangles called the FORWARD
or BACKWARD pads. It will take two strikes on these pads in succession for the kits
for change. Once they start changing, each single strike on the pad will increment or
decrement the kit (sound) by one. There are 128 Factory Kits built in. There are short cuts
to get to any kit, but this stuff is all in the full manual.
If you have a malletKAT without sounds and are using a General MIDI External Sound
Module, then take a look at the listing on page 13 to see the different sounds available.
On the top line of the display on the malletKAT you will see a number like F22, “Accordian”.
This means that you are hearing and playing on Factory KIT number 22.
On the third line on the display you will see the Instrument Name of F22 Accordian. These
instrument names correspond to this chart.
BASIC EDITING to the malletKAT
There are a few basic editing concepts that must be understood if you ever want to make
any changes to the malletKAT. The first thing to look at is the word names under the pads.
Notice under the “white keys” that there are words like, OCTAVE, CHANNEL, SETUP, BANK,
etc, etc. These are the functions of the malletKAT. When you step on the EDIT Footswitch
and hit one of these pads, you are now editing that function. Now take a look at the “black”
keys. On the highest C# and D# are your Increment and Decrement keys.
If you wanted to change the octave (raise the pitch of the instrument) you would step on
the edit footswitch and while held down, tap on the E pad (on the highest octave). Then
you would tap on the D# (increment pad) to raise the octave. Do all of this while the edit
footswitch is held down. That is the whole concept. Lets look at it some more.
HOW TO EDIT
All of the Editing Functions on the malletKAT are performed by stepping down on the Edit
Foot switch, and then while that foot switch is held down, you hit one of the white key
pads. Each one of the pads are assigned a function or a group of related functions. As soon
as you hit one of the pads with the foot switch held down, the function is displayed on the
screen.
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