Alesis DM10 Manual - American Musical Supply

EDITING VOICE & ACCOMPANIMENT PARAMETERS
While editing your Kits by changing the Instruments in a Note: The DM10 will retain any changes
drum Voice or the Accompaniment, you can also edit you make to the Instruments or parameters
various parameters that affect each Layer and, therefore,
as you move between the various Kits.
the Instrument on that Layer. You can do this for the drum
Voices or the Accompaniment, though some parameters below may only be editable for one of these.
1. Press DRUM KIT to go to the Main Screen.
2. Press EDIT INST to edit drum Voice parameters or EDIT
ACCOMP to edit Accompaniment parameters. The top of
the screen will show the number and name of the Kit
whose Instruments (drum Voices or Accompaniment) you
will be editing.
3. Select INST (F1). The new screen will show:
a. the trigger Voice you are editing (the Kit number and
name of the Voice will be shown). If you are editing
the Accompaniment, this will read "Accomp."
a
b
b. the Layer (each trigger sound or Accompaniment
track consists of two Layers, each with its own
c
Instrument)
c. the Category (the type or "class" of drum sound or
Accompaniment currently assigned to that Layer)
d
d. the Instrument (the drum or Accompaniment sound
for that Layer)
4. If you are editing a Voice, select the Voice whose Instrument you want to change by pressing NOTE
CHASE then striking the desired trigger. Alternatively, you can highlight the Voice (next to the Kit
number) using the CURSOR UP / DOWN buttons to highlight it and use the VALUE UP / DOWN
buttons or VALUE DIAL to change it. (This step is not necessary when editing Accompaniment.)
Note: You can also change the current Voice in this fashion in any of the subsequent menus. You can
also toggle between Layers by pressing EDIT INST whenever the "Layer: A B" selector is shown on the
upper right corner of the LCD.
5. Select any of the options at the bottom of the LCD using the
F-BUTTONS. Use CURSOR UP / DOWN to move through
the menu items and VALUE UP / DOWN or the VALUE
DIAL to adjust the settings.
• LVL (F2, 1st page):
• Level: The volume level for the selected Layer (01-
99 or "OFF").
• Pan: The panning for the selected Layer ("L50" to "MID" to "R50").
• Attack: The volume level of the initial attack of the note (00-99). This parameter is only
available when editing Accompaniment.
• Decay: How long the sound can be heard before decaying to silence (00-99 or "OFF").
Note: Setting this parameter to "OFF" disables the Decay parameter and the sound will be
heard for its entire duration with no "shaping."
• FX (F3, 1st page):
• Reverb: The amount of reverb on the Voice (00-
99).
• Effects: The Voice volume level sent to the DM10's
effects processor (00-99).
• EQ/Comp: This sends the Voice to the DM10's
equalizer and compressor ("ON" or "OFF").
• TONE (F1, 2nd page):
• Semitone: Tunes the Instrument ±12 semitones.
• Fine Tune: Tunes the Instrument ±50 cents.
• Filter: The cutoff frequency for the type of filter (see
below) (00-99).
• Type: The type of filter ("LOPASS" or "HIPASS").
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