Using Drum Kits Drum Kit Overview
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Using Drum Kits
Drum Kit Overview
What’s a Drum Kit?
Drum Kits, as the name implies, are optimized for creating
drum sounds. They offer a number of special features, such
as:
• Each note can play a different sound
• Instead of selecting Multisamples (which span the entire
keyboard), you can select Drumsamples (which contain a
single drum sound). These can be from the ROM, RAM,
or EXs banks.
• On each note, you can use up to eight Drumsamples,
with velocity crossfades
• Each note has separate settings for the most important
sound parameters, including volume, filter cutoff and
resonance, envelope attack and decay, pitch, drive and
low boost, and gain for each band of the Program EQ.
For instance, you could combine high drive and low
cutoff frequency to create a lo-fi effect on only a few
sounds, while the rest of the sounds remained clear and
pristine.
• Each note can be routed to different Insert Effects, or
have separate FX Send amounts. For instance, you can
send a snare sound through a dedicated compressor.
You can use Drum Kits only in Programs whose
Oscillator
Mode
is set to
Single
or
Double
Drums
.
Drum Kit memory structure
The NAUTILUS has over 273 Drum Kits, divided into
groups as shown below. You can edit or write into any of the
locations except for the GM bank, which cannot be erased.
For details on the factory-programmed Drum Kits, please
see the Voice Name List.
Drum Kit bank contents
The 9 Drum Kits in the GM bank are compatible with the
GM2 sound map. The other Drum Kits may use different
mappings, where appropriate.
Drum Kit Programs and Oscillator Mode
The Program’s
Oscillator Mode
setting, on the Program
Basic tab of the PROGRAM > Basic/X-Y/Controllers page,
sets whether the Program is used to play Drum Kits or to
play normal Multisamples (such as pianos, strings, etc.).
You’ll see the results of this setting on the OSC1/Basic tab of
the PROGRAM > OSC/Pitch page. If the
Oscillator Mode
is set to
Single
or
Double
, you can select up to eight
Multisamples for each Oscillator, with velocity switches or
crossfades.
If the
Oscillator Mode
is set to
Single Drums
or
Double
Drums
, you’ll be able to select a one or two Drum Kits.
There are still eight levels of velocity switches and layers -
but these are within the Drum Kit itself, and not stored or
edited in the Program.
Bank Contents
A 00…39 Factory Drum Kits
B...E 00...15 Factory Drum Kits
F...O 00...15 User (Initialized) Drum Kits
GM 0…8 GM2 Drum Kits
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