Roland BK-9 - Using Your User Drum Kits in Real-Time

Using your User Drum Kits in real-time
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5. Use the dial to choose the location where you want to
save your le.
6. Press the [WRITE] button, that is ashing red.
The right display shows:
Right Display
7. Give a name to the le to be exported.
For details see “How to type a name in BK-9” (p. 27).
NOTE
If you do not want to change the le name, simply press the
WRITE button.
NOTE
Naming a le (containing your own User Drum Kit) to be
exported does not alter the original Drum Kit name. This means
that when viewing the whole Drum Kit list in BK-9, the original
User Drum Kit name will be shown, which is not necessarily the
name of the exported le.
8. Press the [WRITE] button again.
If your USB memory already contains a le with the same name, you
can either overwrite it or change its name.
The right display shows “Operation Complete”.
9. Repeat steps 3~8 for every le you wish to export.
10. Press and hold the [EXIT] button to leave the “User
Drumkit Utilities” menu and go back to the main page
directly.
Alternatively, you can save every User Drum Kit into a USB memory as soon
as you have created it. See “Changing a supplied User Drum Kit (KBU1~4,
RSU1)” (p. 120).
To import a User Drum Kit, you have to:
1. Press the [MENU] button.
2. Use the dial to select “User Drumkits Utilities”.
The right display shows:
Right Display
3. Rotate the dial and push it to select “Import User DrumKit
From File”.
The right display shows:
Right Display
4. Rotate the dial to choose the User Drum Kit (.UDK) le you
wish to import into your instrument and push it to select.
The right display shows:
Right Display
5. Use the dial to select your desired destination Drum Kit.
The right display shows:
Right Display
6. Use the dial to select “YES”, if you want to conrm your
choice to import that precise le.
7. If you select “NO”, you’ll go back to the previous page,
where you can either change the destination User Drum
Kit area or leave the import function by pressing the EXIT
button.
8. Repeat steps 3~6 for any additional le you wish to
import.
9. Press and hold the [EXIT] button to leave the “User
Drumkit Utilities” menu and go back to the main page
directly.
Using your User Drum Kits in real-
time
Once you have created your desired User Drum Kits you can freely
perform your musical pieces using the drum sounds you judge to
be the most appropriate to your taste and musical inspiration in
real time.