then continue tapping to hear all of the sounds that are available in that kit.
There are 127 note numbers that are possible in any Kit. When talking about melodic sounds, note
number 00 is the lowest sound, and 127 is the highest note possible. If the sound is a marimba for
example, each note number just plays a different note on the marimba. When talking about drum
sounds, each note number usually plays a different sound. Usually there aren't 127 sounds available in
a kit, but this is how the theory works. For both pad sounds, and kit sounds, there is a MIDI channel
that they play on. There are 16 MIDI channels available. This means that you can have different Kits
sounds as well.
There are 127 program changes possible. But because some sound sources have more than 127 sounds,
Bank commands were created. A Bank is a collect of 127 different sounds (programs).On the
trapKAT, you can store up to 4 different Bank and Program Numbers per kit. Recall that each of these
sounds must be associated with a MIDI Channel number. This is the way that we can differentiate the
different sounds on different pads when the sound is a kit sound, not a pad sound.. Also, we can
control the relative Volume for each of these Sounds.
To do this you will need to assign a MIDI Channel, Bank Number (MSB-LSB), Program Change
Number and Volume Number to the Kit. If you need more than one sound, you can store up to 4
of these on different MIDI Channels.
It KIT EDIT, pads # 19 and 20 are assigned to this task. When you step on the KIT EDIT footswitch
and continue tapping on pad 19, you will see Volume (1), Program (1), Channel (1) MSB (1) and
LSB (1), then Volume (2), Program (2) etc etc all the way up to LSB (4).
When you see the value displayed, tap on pad #20 to increment the value. You can also "quick click"
the footswitch to go the other direction.
The good news is that most of the time you will only be calling up one Bank and Program Number
per User Kit. The KT-M1 does not use Bank commands. It only requires the Program Change
number.
MANAGE KIT NAMES
If you want to name your own Kit, step on the KIT EDIT footswitch and tap on pad #21 twice. While
continuing to hold down the footswitch, the pad numbers below change the characters on the display.
Let go of the footswitch when you are done.
Pad 1 assigns upper case letters
Pad 11 assigns lower case letters
Pad 3 assigns a space between characters
Pad 12 assigns a character
Pad 3 advances the cursor
Pad 13 reverses the cursor
Pad 4 advances the characters
Pad 14 reverses the characters.
CHANGING NOTE NUMBERS DOESN'T DO ANYTHING
The trapKAT can play up to 16 sounds on one pad. Most of the time when you are changing note
numbers, you will be working on slot number 1 (of 16). You can tell which slot you are working on by
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