Yamaha RY20 Owner's Manual - Page 90

Modifying the Drum Kits 9 Modifying the Drum Kits The RY20 contains 300 realistic tunable voices including drums, effected drums, percussion of all kinds, and basses. You will find a detailed description of the layout of the drum kits on the RY20 in the section "Playing the Pads" starting on page 21. The RY20 has 20 preset drum kits and 20 user drum kits. Each drum kit has five drum pad banks and a bass pad bank. Each drum pad bank has a set of 12 pads, which means each drum kit has 60 drum voice locations. The bass pad bank has a five-octave range bass or pitched voice. This means that each kit has a 60-key keyboard. The user drum kits "20" to "39" initially contain the same data as the preset drum kits "00" to "20" respectively. IMPORTANT When you attempt to change the voice assignment or any of the parameters of the preset drum kits, numbered "00" to "19", the message "PRESET" will momentarily appear on the display. You cannot modify any of the parameters or voice assignments for a preset drum kit. However, the Pad Sensitivity and Chase functions affect the entire system. You can also copy one of the kits to a user kit. You can then modify all the settings in the user location. IMPORTANT Please be aware that the parameter changes you make for Volume Level, Stereo Pan, Pitch, Decay, the Sensitivity modes, Voice Polyphony, and Alternate Group are assigned to each pad, NOT to each voice. Therefore, when you change the voice assignment to a pad, the current parameter settings are still active for the newly selected voice. 82