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Dynamic Gate

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Practicing with the Training Feature 7. DYNAMIC GATE Dynamic Gate is an exercise for playing pads with proper dynamics. Your aim is to control three levels: Weak, Normal and Strong. When you strike with the wrong dynamics, it will not produce any sound. How accurately you strike with the proper dynamics is evaluated at the end of the exercise. Once you master Dynamic Gate, you will be a skillful drummer at controlling dynamics depending on the situation. What you can do during training: Pad names HI-HAT SNARE KICK TOM RIDE CRASH Strength WEAK, NORM (normal), STRONG  To set the pad sounds to be muted for specific dynamics For example, you can set the pad sound to be produced only when the pad is struck within the NORM range. In such case, disable WEAK and STRONG. Use the buttons below " " and " " ([F2] and [F3]) to move the cursor ( ), then use the [-] [+] controllers to select a square to show (with sounds) or not to show (without sounds). You can also change the cursor position by striking the pad. DTX-PRO DTX-PROX Reference Manual 109

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Practicing with the Training Feature
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7. DYNAMIC GATE
Dynamic Gate
is an exercise for playing pads with proper dynamics. Your aim is to control three levels: Weak, Normal and Strong. When
you strike with the wrong dynamics, it will not produce any sound. How accurately you strike with the proper dynamics is evaluated at the
end of the exercise. Once you master
Dynamic Gate
, you will be a skillful drummer at controlling dynamics depending on the situation.
What you can do during training:
To set the pad sounds to be muted for specific dynamics
For example, you can set the pad sound to be produced only when the pad is struck within the NORM range. In such case, disable
WEAK and STRONG.
Use the buttons below “
” and “
” ([F2] and [F3]) to move the cursor (
), then use the [–] [+] control-
lers to select a square to show (with sounds) or not to show (without sounds).
You can also change the cursor position by striking the pad.
Pad names
HI-HAT
SNARE
KICK
TOM
RIDE
CRASH
Strength
WEAK, NORM (normal), STRONG