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Building Your Own Kit, Selecting Sounds (Instruments)

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Basic Operation Building Your Own Kit With the DTX700, you can assign a different sound to each of the connected pads. And once you have assembled all of the sounds you wish to use, you can store them together. The following describes how to perform these operations. Selecting Sounds (Instruments) [Definition] Instrument In the context of the DTX700, the term "instrument" is used to refer to each of the various percussion instruments that make up a kit. Typical examples would be snare drums, tom-toms, cymbals, and kick drums. 1 Press the [KIT] button. 5 Turn the dial to select the sound you wish to use. Instrument category Instrument number NOTE • You can use instrument categories and numbers to find more information on different instruments in the Data List booklet that came with your DTX700. 6 When you have found a sound you like, press the [STORE] button. 2 Turn the dial to choose the kit you wish to edit. 3 Press the [INST] button. If you do not wish to store your new setting, press the [EXIT] button. The display will return to the previous page. 7 Press the dial to store your new setting. 4 Hit the pad that you wish to assign a new sound to. NOTE • Even if you have changed a kit's sounds and stored your new settings, you can perform kit initialization (page 28) at any time to restore the original ones. 30 DTX700 Owner's Manual

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Basic Operation
30
DTX700
O
w
ner’s Man
u
al
Building Your Own Kit
With the DTX700, you can assign a different sound to each of
the connected pads. And once you have assembled all of the
sounds you wish to use, you can store them together. The fol-
lowing describes how to perform these operations.
[Definition]
Instrument
In the context of the DTX700, the term “instr
u
-
ment” is
u
sed to refer to each of the vario
u
s per-
c
u
ssion instr
u
ments that make
u
p a kit. Typical
examples
w
o
u
ld
b
e snare dr
u
ms, tom-toms,
cym
b
als, and kick dr
u
ms.
1
Press the [KIT] button.
2
Turn the dial to choose the kit you wish to
edit.
3
Press the [INST] button.
4
Hit the pad that you wish to assign a new
sound to.
5
Turn the dial to select the sound you wish to
use.
NOTE
• Yo
u
can
u
se instr
u
ment categories and n
u
m
b
ers to find
more information on different instr
u
ments in the
Data
List
b
ooklet that came
w
ith yo
u
r DTX700.
6
When you have found a sound you like, press
the [STORE] button.
If you do not wish to store your new setting, press the
[EXIT] button. The display will return to the previous page.
7
Press the dial to store your new setting.
NOTE
•
Even if yo
u
have changed a kit’s so
u
nds and stored yo
u
r
ne
w
settings, yo
u
can perform kit initialization (page 28)
at any time to restore the original ones.
Selecting Sounds (Instruments)
Instr
u
ment category
Instr
u
ment n
u
m
b
er