Overview of the SPD-SX PRO (wave/kit/system)
What is a wave?
The sounds that play when you strike the pads are called “waves”.
The sounds that you sample, as well as the sounds you import from a USB flash drive or from your computer are stored in this unit as waves. You can play two waves at the same time (LAYER A, LAYER B) from a single pad.
What’s a kit?
A “kit” is a collection of settings for nine pads, eight external pads and two footswitches.
You can freely customize a kit, such as by assigning the waves you like to each pad in the kit and changing how they play.
The SPD-SX PRO features 200 different kits (including the kit data included by factory default).
You can configure these kits from the [MENU] button Ó KIT EDIT1/2 tabs (*1).
Ø “Customizing a kit (KIT EDIT 1)”
Ø “Configuring the Overall Kit (KIT EDIT2)”
- The master comp and master EQ are system settings. These settings can’t be made for individual kits.
What does “system” refer to?
The parts of the settings related to this product overall are referred to as the “system”.
These can be accessed from the [MENU] button Ó SYSTEM tab.
Ø “Configuring the Overall Settings for the SPD-SX PRO (SYSTEM)”
When you execute SYSTEM INIT, only the system settings are restored to their factory settings.
NOTE
The kits and wave banks are not restored to the factory settings.
What are the wave preload and user banks?
These banks contain the waves (audio files) and wave parameters (START/END point and so on).
The preload bank contains the factory default waves.
The user bank contains waves imported from a USB flash drive or from a computer, as well as waves that you’ve sampled.
You can view the waves as a list, edit the waves, manage the tags and so on from the [MENU] button Ó WAVE tab.