Roland TD-10 - Manual (Page 116)

Selecting kits in the desired
order (Drum Kit Chain)
■ Specifying a Drum Kit Chain
This allows you to step through the drum kits of your choice
and in the order you want. (via the INC/DEC buttons or
footswitch operation). TD-10 lets you create and store 16 dif-
ferent chains of up to 32 steps each.
fig.09-01e
fig.09-02
Procedure
1. Press [CHAIN]-[F1 (C EDIT)].
The “CHAIN EDIT” page will appear.
2. Use [CURSOR] to move the cursor to the large number
(the chain number) in the left of the display.
3. Use [INC/DEC] or the VALUE dial to select the chain
number you wish to work on.
4. Use [CURSOR] to move the cursor to the “step” number
within the selection sequence, shown at the right of the
page.
5. Use [INC/DEC] or the VALUE dial to select the drum kits
in the order in which you wish to play them.
Function buttons
[F1 (INSERT)]: Inserts the kit after the cursor location, mov-
ing the subsequent items of the chain one
step toward the end.
[F2 (DELETE)]: Deletes the kit at the cursor location, moving
the subsequent items of the chain one step
toward the beginning.
[F3 (NEXT)]: Advances to the next step.
[F4 (NAME)]: Assigns a name to the chain. For details see
the following section.
How to use the CHAIN
1. Press [CHAIN] to make the button indicator light
The Drum Kit Chain function will be turned on.
2. Use the left/right [CURSOR] or [INC/DEC] to select kits in
the order that you specified in the chain. You can use the
up/down [CURSOR] to select chains.
* Press [CHAIN] to make the indicator go dark and the Drum Kit
Chain function will be turned off.
Applications
When this function is used together with the Pad Switch
function or the Foot Switch function, you can use a pad or
foot switch to select drum kits in a drum kit chain. To do
this, set the MODE setting of the Pad Switch function or Foot
Switch function to “KIT SELECT.” For details refer to
“Operations using pads and foot switches” (p. 119).
■ Naming a Drum Kit Chain
You can assign a name of up to 8 characters to each chain.
fig.09-03
Procedure
1. Press [CHAIN]-[F1 (C EDIT)]-[F4 (NAME)].
The “CHAIN NAME” page will appear.
2. Use the left/right [CURSOR] to move the cursor to the
character that you wish to change.
The blinking character is the one that can be changed.
3. Use either the VALUE dial, [INC/DEC], or [CURSOR] to
change the character. Characters can be selected in the
order shown in the bottom of the screen.
Function buttons
In this page, the [F1]–[F4] buttons perform convenient func-
tions for entering characters.
[F1 (INSERT)]: All characters to the right of the cursor will
be moved to the right.
[F2 (DELETE)]: The character at the cursor location will be
deleted, and all characters to the right of the
cursor will be moved to the left.
[F3 (SPACE)]: A blank space will be inserted at the cursor
location.
[F4 (CHAR)]: Cycle between uppercase/lowercase/sym-
bols.
Chain 1 Kit
7
Kit
2
Kit
5
Kit
10
Chain 2
Chain 16
32 steps
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