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ALESIS
D4
Reference Manual
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1.0 PRINCIPAL FEATURES..................................................................................... 1 1.1 RETURN YOUR WARRANTY CARD NOW!....................................................... 2 1.2 HOOKUP/INSTANT GRATIFICATION ............................................................... 2 3 3 . 3 4 4 4 5 5 7 1.3 BASICS AND DEFINITIONS............................................................................... 7 7 8 8 8 1.4 ABOUT THE USER INTERFACE .............................
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4.0 DRUM SET ROOT NOTE ................................................................................... 21 4.1 MIDI CHANNEL SELECTION............................................................................. 23 4.2 MIDI THRU/OUT SELECTION............................................................................ 23 4.3 PROGRAM CHANGE ENABLE.......................................................................... 24 4.4 CONTROLLER ENABLE...............................................
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1.0 PRINCIPAL FEATURES • Over 500 Sounds. • 48 kHz Sample Rate and 20 Hz-20 kHz Bandwidth. • 12 acoustic trigger inputs. • Full MIDI implementation. • Simultaneous MIDI/trigger operation. • Trigger to MIDI conversion. • Single rack space size. • 21 programmable drum kits. • Multiple outputs. 1 sounds that may need separate processing. sounds, and the other stereo pair as two individual outputs for specific drum output. One possible application is to use one stereo pair for a mix of drum if you
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• Velocity-sensitive Preview button. • Headphone jack. • Hi hat pedal footswitch. • Note chasing. • Drum sound editing. 1.1 RETURN YOUR WARRANTY CARD NOW! 1.2 HOOKUP/INSTANT GRATIFICATION 2 Chapters 2-5. different drum sounds. For more detail on these and other operations, refer to This section describes how to hook up the D4, select Drum Sets, and audition you send in your warranty card. Your warranty will be in effect and you will receive product update information only if cymbals that rest
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1.2A Installation 1.2B Hook Up Audio (rear panel) 1. 2. 3. mixer. 4. 5. Note: 1.2C Hook Up MIDI (rear panel) 1. 2. 1.2D Hook Up External Triggers (rear panel) 3 applications, as described in section 4.2. the D4’s MIDI Out/Thru to the other units’ MIDI In. MIDI Out has other ’s MIDI In to other units, connect To distribute the MIDI signal present at the D4 trigger-to-MIDI converter, keyboard, etc.) to the D4’s rear panel MIDI In. MIDI drum pads, Connect the MIDI Out from the source of MIDI
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1. 2. 1.2E Hook Up Power (rear panel) 1. 2. Note: 1.2F Turn On Power 1. Caution: 2. levels for a comfortable listening level. 1.2G Select Drum Sets 1. 2. the example below). 0 0 4 “Standard Stuff” DRUMSET number on the upper line and the Drum Set’s name on the lower line (similar to Press the Drum Set button; its LED will light. The LCD will show a Drum Set not light, check your power connections. After turning on power, the LCD will show a sign-on message. If the LCD does and speakers. Afte
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3. 4. 1.2H Audition Different Drum Sounds Kik (Kick) Snr Cym Tom (Tom toms) Prc Efx (Effects) 5 (Percussion) (Cymbals and hi hats) (Snare) are: Drum sounds are organized as Banks of individual drum sounds. Available Banks Set. You cannot select a Drum Set number lower than 00 or higher than 20. counterclockwise to select lower-numbered drum kits. Each click calls up a Drum Turn the Data wheel clockwise to select higher-numbered drum kits or range of 36-96) or triggers should trigger differen
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1. 2 2. 3. 4. 5. S 6. 6 button as needed. listen to other sounds within the Bank, repeat steps 3 and 4 and tap the Preview Use the Data knob to change Banks. The drum sound number will reset to 01. To nr/01: Raw Hide NOTE: 038 D1 character of the Bank name is underlined, as in the following example: nks of sounds, press the left cursor button so that the first To audition other ba Bank. Tap the Preview button to hear the selected sound. sound, until you reach either the highest- or lowest-number
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1.2I Assign Drum Sounds to Particular MIDI Notes 1. 2. p 3. 4. 1.3 BASICS AND DEFINITIONS 1.3A The Voice voice velocity-sensitive: like “real” drums. 7 mentioned earlier, the timbre (tonal content) and pitch will often change as well, just assigned to the pad will play. Thanks to the Dynamic Articulation™ techniques button) or the higher the velocity value of the MIDI trigger, the louder the drum sound the harder you hit a drum pad (or the Preview Each voice is MIDI note number. seven posit
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1.3B About the Edit Buffer • • 1.3C About Defaults Example: Example: Example: 1.3D MIDI Note Range 8 will end up on MIDI note 127. Shifting the root note to the highest possible value, 67, means that the highest note which case the highest note would be five octaves above that, or MIDI note 60. (section 4.1). For example, the bottom root note could be shifted to MIDI note 0, in MIDI note 36 to 96. However, this range may be shifted using the Root Note feature The D4’s sounds can be assigned
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Programmable Drumset trigger note number assignments (any trigger may be assigned any note number within the 61 note window) MIDI IN DATA 000 036 096 127 C-2 C1 C6 61 Note Window Rootnote Note Data to Sound Generator 1.4 ABOUT THE USER INTERFACE 9 Group Drum Set Trigger MIDI External Cursor Buttons Display Headphone Jack Output Tune Note Chase Preview Data Wheel Volume Power Mix Voice Store The D4 is very easy to edit. The various buttons are organized as fo
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1.4A Function Buttons Voice Tune Mix Output Drum Set Ext Trig Determines which trigger inputs will trigger which drums, and sets up Group successive series of triggers. MIDI 1.4B Cursor Buttons 1.4C Multi-Page Functions 1.4D Editing Parameter Values 10 parameters on the current LCD screen to another LCD screen. Repeatedly pressing either cursor button will eventually move past all the • first page in the series. last page in the series, further pressing of these buttons “wraps around” to t
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number. Example: 0 0 0 1.4E The Store and Note Chase buttons 1.4F The Preview Button 11 selected sound. You can tap the velocity-sensitive Preview button at any time to trigger the currently choose a particular note (and therefore its assigned drum sound) to be edited. the contents of the edit buffer. Note Chase allows a MIDI note or acoustic trigger to The Store button saves edited Drum Sets by overwriting existing Drum Set data with any changes made to the current Drum Set will be lost. The
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2.0 SELECTING DRUM SETS 1. 2. 2.1 STORING/NAMING AN EDITED DRUM SET 1. 2. Important: Saving to a Drum Set overwrites any existing data in that Drum Set. 3. arrows) are: ! “ # $ % & ’ ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ? @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q 12 Characters available (in addition to a blank space, Yen symbol, and left and right first character of the name. Use the Data wheel to select the desired character. To rename the Drum Set, press the > cursor button. The cursor wi
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R S T U V W X Y Z [ ] ^ _ ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z { | } 4. Note: 1. 0 2. 3. 4. all 5. Note: 13 D4’s memory first, as described in section 4.6. Also note that if you are concerned about overwriting data you want to keep, save the unchanged. This can be useful for auditioning the various preset Drum Sets. Set you recalled will remain in the edit buffer but Drum Sets 00-20 will remain cancel the recall operation by pressing one of the eight Function buttons, any Drum
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3.0 NOTE CHASE/DRUM NOTE SELECTION 0 • • LED will flash. 3.1 VOICE Example: K Kik (Kick) Snr Cym Tom (Tom toms) Prc Efx (Effects) 15 (Percussion) (Cymbals and hi hats) (Snare) Data wheel. Bank options are: To select a drum Bank, place the cursor under the drum Bank name and turn the ik/01: Big "O" NOTE: 054 F#2 two parameters, drum Bank and Drum Sound, on the bottom line. Press Voice, and the LCD shows the selected MIDI note number on the top line and a signal to play one of its sounds (vi
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3.2 TUNE Example: 0 Example: 9 Note: 3.4 OUTPUT Example: 16 the drum’s Output assignment on the bottom line. Press Output, and the LCD shows the selected MIDI note number on the top line and standard way of placing drum sounds in the stereo field. course, one of the advantages of electronic drum sets is that you need not follow any the left, snare and kick in the center, and toms trailing from left-center to right. Of When heard from the drummer’s perspective, the high-hat will usually be on
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M Stereo with Fixed Placement: works well for most applications. Stereo with Variable Placement: Stereo with Individual Outputs: Separate Percussion/Drum Outputs: Example: 0 0 17 “Standard Stuff” DRUMSET and the Drum Set’s name on the bottom line. Press Drum Set, and the LCD shows the selected Drum Set number on the top line 3.5 DRUM SET the two groups individually. fade the percussion in and out independently of the trap drum sounds. Or, process the percussion to two other tracks. Adjust
