point. If you need to restore the Kits back to the Factory Setting, you will need to reinitialize the
instrument.
Calling up a Factory Bank or User Bank is easy. Step on and hold down the Global Edit Footswitch,
and hit pad#1. Striking the pad again toggles between the two Banks.
GROOVE ENABLE
PAD #2,5,9,15,16,23, and 24
The Melodic and Percussion Grooves built into the trapKAT are from the original 1.0 software created
back in 1995! They were designed to work with General MIDI drum modules, so the new Kurzweil
Sound card plays back music but not what was originally intended. It is likely that future upgrades of
the trapKAT 5KS will rewrite these grooves.
The Grooves in the instrument were conceived as a selling tool when the trapKAT was demoed in the
stores. The idea was that if the drummer started playing, they would forget what the trapKAT looked
like and would just start playing and have fun. But because the user can not add their own grooves or
modify the existing groove other than the tempo, these grooves got old in a real hurry.
By Default, the Grooves are now disabled on the trapKAT. To turn them on, step on and hold down the
Global Edit Footswitch and hit pad #2. You can now toggle the Grooves on or off.
When the Grooves are Enabled, pads 15, 16, 23 and 24 stop functioning as normal drum sounds and act
as a Groove Controller, changing grooves, starting and stoping them and controlling their tempos.
Pad 15 are Melodic Grooves, music minus drums. Each strike of the pad changes the Groove.
Pad 16 are Percussion Grooves. Each strike of the pad changes the Groove
Pad 24 is a Start/ Stop Pad
Pad 23 is a Tempo Control Pad. Hit the pad twice at the tempo you want (in quarter notes)
Pad 9 controls the Volume of the Grooves. The volume goes from 0-10
Pad #5 Globally Turns on or off the Groove
MEMORY PROTECT
Pad #3
If Memory Protect is Turned ON, you can not save any Kits or make any changes to the Kits. You will
know that the Memory Protection is On because you hear a “bad” beep every time to try to change
anything. If you perform a REINITIALIZE, the trapKAT defaults to MEMORY PROTECTION ON.
Turning Memory Protect on or off is performed on pad #3 with the Global Edit Footswitch held down.
MIDI MERGE
Pad #4
MIDI information coming into the MIDI In of your trapKAT may be passed (or merged) through to the
MIDI Outs if the MERGE is ON. If you have another controller besides your trapKAT, you may want
to have both the external controller and the trapKAT use the same sound source. The Merge setting
allows you to do that.
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