you are have the trapKAT 5KS, you will need to go the the USER Kits. The User Kits have 24 presets
ready to go to get started with the 5KS.
After you reinitialize the trapKAT, the instrument automatically turns on MEMORY Protection. If you
attempt to change any parameter on the trapKAT, you will hear a “bad” beep. To shut off MEMORY
Protection, step on the Global Edit Footswitch, and while held down, tap on pad #3. This pad toggles
the Memory Protection on and off.
GO BETWEEN FACTORY AND USER KITS
The FACTORY Kits on the trapKAT 5KS are meant to be used for GM Drum Modules. These Kits
have not been optimized for the Kurzweil sound card. For the trapKAT with sounds, you should be
using the USER KITS. Please note that you can make changes to Factory and User Kits, but you can
only save USER Kit information. When you alter a Factory Kit, the changes go away as soon as you
leave the kit. This is also true now for the User Kits unless you choose to do a SAVE function to that
Kit.
Going between FACTORY and USER KITs is simple. Step on the Global Edit Footswitch and tap on
pad #1. Each time you tap on that pad, the trapKAT switches between Factory and User Kits. When you
shut off the trapKAT and turn it back on, it will remember what Bank of Kits you are using.
QUICK CLICK
Changing values on the trapKAT is usually performed by repeated taps on the same pad. Each tap
increments the value by one. If you overshoot your desired value or if you want to decrement values
and go in the reverse direction, a QUICK CLICK is the answer. While you are incrementing values,
quickly release and repress the footswitch (within a second). The values will now change direction.
This works for the Note Edit, Kit Edit and Global Edit Footswitches.
SAVE A KIT
Manual Kit Saving is new to the trapKAT 5KS. In all previous versions, the trapKAT automatically
saved any changes that you made. We have changed this feature so that saving a Kit only happens when
you deliberately want it to.
To Save a Kit, step on the Global Edit Footswitch, and while held down, tap on pad # 21. The display
will ask to to confirm that you want to Save. Hit the pad again and the current User Kit is saved.
CHANGE THE SOUNDS
When discussing changing sounds, we have to make a distinction between changing a sound on a pad,
or changing the sound on a kit.
Changing a sound on a pad simply requires that you step on the NOTE EDIT footswitch, tap on the pad
that you want the sound to change, 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
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