by ibanman555 » Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:08 pm
First you need to set the note you want for the pad, then follow these steps:
1.- Set HighLevel Auto to 'yes' and whack the pad hard 10 times. Look at the number you get in 'HighLevel'. If it's between 500 and 1000 move to step 2. If it's below 500, raise gain and repeat the process. If it's above 1000, reduce gain and repeat the process. Ideally it should be around 800-900 but if it's at around 500 it's still fine. When that's done, set HighLevel Auto to 'No'. Send the changes.
2.- Reduce Threshold until the pad starts auto-triggering. Raise it by 2.
3.- Set Retrigger to 1 and Dyntime and Dynlevel to 0. You'll probably get loads of double triggers. Raise Dyntime to 24 and then raise Dynlevel one number at a time until double triggers go away. Don't go higher than 4 or 5 (I find it starts missing hits if higher than 5, YMMV). If you still get double triggering start raising Retrigger until they go away. I leave Dyntime at 1 and raise Dynlevel to 40 or higher in need be.
The pad should now be triggering fairly decently. Fine-tuning involves tweaking the above parameters, there's not much else to it apart from choosing a curve that suits the dynamics you want.
This will basic triggering going - next comes fine-tuning. Once you've got the hang of setting up a single zone pad, move on to dialling piezo/piezo, piezo/switch pads and positional sensing. We can carry on with more tips when you get there, but the above should give you a good starting point.