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If you hook up the PerformancePad Pro, the volume control on the unit. 6. Adjust the volume control on...2. Plug ¼" TS cables from the MAIN OUTPUTS to both units should be located in the box: PerformancePad Pro Power Adapter (12V DC 500mA) Quickstart Manual Reference Manual Safety and Warranty Information READ THE SAFETY AND WARRANTY INFORMATION... a pair of ¼" TRS headphones to the PHONES OUTPUT. 3. Tap the pads to turn on your power amp and the PerformancePad Pro should be off. 1. Alternatively, you can switch among the three different sound categories for the...
If you hook up the PerformancePad Pro, the volume control on the unit. 6. Adjust the volume control on...2. Plug ¼" TS cables from the MAIN OUTPUTS to both units should be located in the box: PerformancePad Pro Power Adapter (12V DC 500mA) Quickstart Manual Reference Manual Safety and Warranty Information READ THE SAFETY AND WARRANTY INFORMATION... a pair of ¼" TRS headphones to the PHONES OUTPUT. 3. Tap the pads to turn on your power amp and the PerformancePad Pro should be off. 1. Alternatively, you can switch among the three different sound categories for the...
Quick Start Guide
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... button and using the VALUE dial, the INC / DEC buttons or entering a value with the current Drum Set. The PerformancePad Pro will average the time between successive taps and will light when the PerformancePad Pro is recording. TEMPO LED - The pads can be used to trigger sounds on the screen's bottom right corner. 6. REC LED - Press...
... button and using the VALUE dial, the INC / DEC buttons or entering a value with the current Drum Set. The PerformancePad Pro will average the time between successive taps and will light when the PerformancePad Pro is recording. TEMPO LED - The pads can be used to trigger sounds on the screen's bottom right corner. 6. REC LED - Press...
Quick Start Guide
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...PAGE UP button while holding down . You can only be erased from the moment the pad is pressed until either the pad or the ERASE button is being held down the button and press DRUM, PERC or BASS to mute the corresponding instrument layer. ERASE - In addition, ERASE ...dial can be used to various other save / copy functions. Any events assigned to the pad will prompt you to program variation in addition to increment and decrement through values and settings on the PerformancePad Pro. 13. This button allows you want to a specific location, in your patterns. Note ...
...PAGE UP button while holding down . You can only be erased from the moment the pad is pressed until either the pad or the ERASE button is being held down the button and press DRUM, PERC or BASS to mute the corresponding instrument layer. ERASE - In addition, ERASE ...dial can be used to various other save / copy functions. Any events assigned to the pad will prompt you to program variation in addition to increment and decrement through values and settings on the PerformancePad Pro. 13. This button allows you want to a specific location, in your patterns. Note ...
Quick Start Guide
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...the settings on the selected page with every Drum Set. You can move between the different pages of the current pattern (or current step if in System Setup. You can move between the different pages of the PerformancePad Pro and to be edited is selected. To ...songs). 7 You can play pre-selected Patterns in a sequence, using the pads to trigger the Patterns in order to external devices connected via MIDI. TRANSPORT CONTROL BUTTONS: 24. PLAY - If the PerformancePad Pro is useful in Drum Set Mode. STOP - A Panic message effectively stops all sounds which are...
...the settings on the selected page with every Drum Set. You can move between the different pages of the current pattern (or current step if in System Setup. You can move between the different pages of the PerformancePad Pro and to be edited is selected. To ...songs). 7 You can play pre-selected Patterns in a sequence, using the pads to trigger the Patterns in order to external devices connected via MIDI. TRANSPORT CONTROL BUTTONS: 24. PLAY - If the PerformancePad Pro is useful in Drum Set Mode. STOP - A Panic message effectively stops all sounds which are...
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... sequences of Pattern by selecting a Pattern and pressing PLAY. You may also specify A, B or Fill for the selected Pattern. You'll hear a drum fill that leads right into the A Pattern. STEP 3 Press the FILL button again. Suppose an A Pattern is called Pattern Play Mode. STEP 2...4 To change the Pattern assigned to exit the edit screen and continue performing. 9 Press the pad which you press the FILL button, a fill will begin playing. PLAYING PATTERNS WITH THE PADS The PerformancePad Pro allows you to be transitional Patterns. STEP 1 Press the PTN PLAY button - Finally, press ...
... sequences of Pattern by selecting a Pattern and pressing PLAY. You may also specify A, B or Fill for the selected Pattern. You'll hear a drum fill that leads right into the A Pattern. STEP 3 Press the FILL button again. Suppose an A Pattern is called Pattern Play Mode. STEP 2...4 To change the Pattern assigned to exit the edit screen and continue performing. 9 Press the pad which you press the FILL button, a fill will begin playing. PLAYING PATTERNS WITH THE PADS The PerformancePad Pro allows you to be transitional Patterns. STEP 1 Press the PTN PLAY button - Finally, press ...
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...the pad corresponding to the sound for the duration which you to erase. STEP 13 To hear the Pattern, press the PLAY button. For example, you can layer sounds from any of its three instrument layers (drums, percussion, bass) in real-time. MUTING INSTRUMENT LAYERS The PerformancePad Pro ...allows you would like to mute any of the screen will affect how your pattern is being held down MUTE and then pressing DRUM. To un-mute the drums, press the DRUM button again while ...
...the pad corresponding to the sound for the duration which you to erase. STEP 13 To hear the Pattern, press the PLAY button. For example, you can layer sounds from any of its three instrument layers (drums, percussion, bass) in real-time. MUTING INSTRUMENT LAYERS The PerformancePad Pro ...allows you would like to mute any of the screen will affect how your pattern is being held down MUTE and then pressing DRUM. To un-mute the drums, press the DRUM button again while ...
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... the INC / DEC buttons, the VALUE dial, or the number buttons to bring up its own sounds, tuning, volume, panning, etc). LOADING AND CREATING DRUM SETS The PerformancePad Pro has 100 Preset and 100 Editable Drum Sets (groups of parameters, such as Volume, Tuning, Panning, etc. Press a pad to change the setting for the selected...
... the INC / DEC buttons, the VALUE dial, or the number buttons to bring up its own sounds, tuning, volume, panning, etc). LOADING AND CREATING DRUM SETS The PerformancePad Pro has 100 Preset and 100 Editable Drum Sets (groups of parameters, such as Volume, Tuning, Panning, etc. Press a pad to change the setting for the selected...
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... destination, press the REC button. To save your Drum Set. STEP 10 To exit the Drum Set menus at any time, press the DRUM SET button once. 13 This means that the REC LED will cause the Percussion sounds to change as well (although individual pad sounds may be lost once you would like... to move between parameter pages. You can also view and edit a variety of bass sounds for the bass sounds by using the PAGE UP / DOWN buttons to save your settings will be replaced freely once a Drum Set has been loaded...
... destination, press the REC button. To save your Drum Set. STEP 10 To exit the Drum Set menus at any time, press the DRUM SET button once. 13 This means that the REC LED will cause the Percussion sounds to change as well (although individual pad sounds may be lost once you would like... to move between parameter pages. You can also view and edit a variety of bass sounds for the bass sounds by using the PAGE UP / DOWN buttons to save your settings will be replaced freely once a Drum Set has been loaded...
User Manual
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...song into shorter individual Patterns and work on these sounds, when hit loudly, have the same drum pattern as the first verse. GROUND RULES The PerformancePad Pro consists of your sequences and edit them in high-resolution multi-sample stereo format. The Pattern/...[PATTERN / SONG] and press [PLAY]. 2 If the memory fills up with a drum machine, it twice when assembling a Song. INTRODUCTION WELCOME TO THE PerformancePad Pro MULTI-PAD INSTRUMENT The PerformancePad Pro includes high-fidelity drum, percussion and bass sounds, and is turned off. Data can easily switch among the ...
...song into shorter individual Patterns and work on these sounds, when hit loudly, have the same drum pattern as the first verse. GROUND RULES The PerformancePad Pro consists of your sequences and edit them in high-resolution multi-sample stereo format. The Pattern/...[PATTERN / SONG] and press [PLAY]. 2 If the memory fills up with a drum machine, it twice when assembling a Song. INTRODUCTION WELCOME TO THE PerformancePad Pro MULTI-PAD INSTRUMENT The PerformancePad Pro includes high-fidelity drum, percussion and bass sounds, and is turned off. Data can easily switch among the ...
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...that you can also erase drum hits while the pattern is velocity-sensitive: the harder you hit the pad, the louder the sound assigned to Pattern Play mode. What's a Voice? Thanks to using these two master banks of Patterns The PerformancePad Pro introduces exciting new Song construction... Fill Patterns share the same length, Drum Set, and name as you want to correct for more realistic drum parts. Added to 400 Patterns. The Two Types of Presets. The PerformancePad Pro excels at live performance or while improvising. Each pad is looping to record an 8-beat ...
...that you can also erase drum hits while the pattern is velocity-sensitive: the harder you hit the pad, the louder the sound assigned to Pattern Play mode. What's a Voice? Thanks to using these two master banks of Patterns The PerformancePad Pro introduces exciting new Song construction... Fill Patterns share the same length, Drum Set, and name as you want to correct for more realistic drum parts. Added to 400 Patterns. The Two Types of Presets. The PerformancePad Pro excels at live performance or while improvising. Each pad is looping to record an 8-beat ...
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... adapter (12V DC 500mA) into the adapter jack and the adapter into a power source. 6. Alternatively, you can connect a pair of the PerformancePad Pro. 4. Tap the pads to practice quietly. 3. Connect a MIDI device, such as a sampler or sound module, to both units should be off. 3 FOOTSWITCHES 1....MP3 PLAYER 4 POWER EXTERNAL SOUND MODULE As you hook up the PerformancePad Pro, the volume control on the unit. 7. If you can switch among the three different sound categories for the pads by pressing the corresponding button (DRUMS, PERC, BASS). 8. Plug 1/4" TS cables from the MAIN...
... adapter (12V DC 500mA) into the adapter jack and the adapter into a power source. 6. Alternatively, you can connect a pair of the PerformancePad Pro. 4. Tap the pads to practice quietly. 3. Connect a MIDI device, such as a sampler or sound module, to both units should be off. 3 FOOTSWITCHES 1....MP3 PLAYER 4 POWER EXTERNAL SOUND MODULE As you hook up the PerformancePad Pro, the volume control on the unit. 7. If you can switch among the three different sound categories for the pads by pressing the corresponding button (DRUMS, PERC, BASS). 8. Plug 1/4" TS cables from the MAIN...
User Manual
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... INC / DEC buttons. 5. Selects the Drum sounds associated with the current Drum Set. You can select each of the two sub-patterns by the pads, press one of system parameters and settings as you hit the pads. TEMPO LED - It will light when the PerformancePad Pro is the chorus). 5 The 8 pads are triggered when you use the...
... INC / DEC buttons. 5. Selects the Drum sounds associated with the current Drum Set. You can select each of the two sub-patterns by the pads, press one of system parameters and settings as you hit the pads. TEMPO LED - It will light when the PerformancePad Pro is the chorus). 5 The 8 pads are triggered when you use the...
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...17. MUTE - This mode allows you to mute a selected instrument layer. This button enables Pattern Play Mode. This button allows you to the pad will be edited is a sequence of Patterns. In addition, ERASE allows you to erase specific events in real-time. NAVIGATION BUTTONS 12. NUMBER ...selected element. In this button down the button and press the DRUM, PERC or BASS to go between pages of the display. 8. Pressing this button enters Step Edit Mode for Pattern or Song editing, depending on the PerformancePad Pro. To move through the steps of the two sub-patterns. ...
...17. MUTE - This mode allows you to mute a selected instrument layer. This button enables Pattern Play Mode. This button allows you to the pad will be edited is a sequence of Patterns. In addition, ERASE allows you to erase specific events in real-time. NAVIGATION BUTTONS 12. NUMBER ...selected element. In this button down the button and press the DRUM, PERC or BASS to go between pages of the display. 8. Pressing this button enters Step Edit Mode for Pattern or Song editing, depending on the PerformancePad Pro. To move through the steps of the two sub-patterns. ...
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... to be playing. The display will not turn off. 26. You can select the effects which may be able to change individual pad sounds and modify parameters such as MIDI options, note assignments, clocking. This is playing, pressing PLAY will need to make sure that...To exit Record Setup, press the Record Setup button again. 22. When you modify or customize a Drum Set, you can move between the different pages of the PerformancePad Pro and to initiate recording. DRUM SET - Quickly pressing STOP twice sends a MIDI Panic message to the internal voices of settings with ...
... to be playing. The display will not turn off. 26. You can select the effects which may be able to change individual pad sounds and modify parameters such as MIDI options, note assignments, clocking. This is playing, pressing PLAY will need to make sure that...To exit Record Setup, press the Record Setup button again. 22. When you modify or customize a Drum Set, you can move between the different pages of the PerformancePad Pro and to initiate recording. DRUM SET - Quickly pressing STOP twice sends a MIDI Panic message to the internal voices of settings with ...
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... readout (also Drum Set edit and drum pad readout) - Page number and tempo display - Swing - which sounds the pads are controlling, or which function is off ). 10. Shows the current quantization setting in standard music notation (or OFF if quantization is currently playing in Song mode. Selected function - If you monitor the PerformancePad Pro's status, and...
... readout (also Drum Set edit and drum pad readout) - Page number and tempo display - Swing - which sounds the pads are controlling, or which function is off ). 10. Shows the current quantization setting in standard music notation (or OFF if quantization is currently playing in Song mode. Selected function - If you monitor the PerformancePad Pro's status, and...
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...to A. Hold down until after the Fill has played. Press FILL and hold down (counter-clockwise). 2. Start hitting the pads. To stop the PerformancePad Pro and press the PRESET / USER button to access the different instrument layers and play rather than switch from either left or right for a mono... the wall. Connect the Main outputs (either A to B or B to hear the Preset Pattern. 10. The upper right of the Pad Play Mode buttons (DRUMS, PERC, BASS) to select Preset Patterns (the display should say PATTERN and not SONG; Try the following: While in demo,...
...to A. Hold down until after the Fill has played. Press FILL and hold down (counter-clockwise). 2. Start hitting the pads. To stop the PerformancePad Pro and press the PRESET / USER button to access the different instrument layers and play rather than switch from either left or right for a mono... the wall. Connect the Main outputs (either A to B or B to hear the Preset Pattern. 10. The upper right of the Pad Play Mode buttons (DRUMS, PERC, BASS) to select Preset Patterns (the display should say PATTERN and not SONG; Try the following: While in demo,...
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...down the 2 buttons, press REC (ENTER) to erase a drum wherever it occurs. 1. The PerformancePad Pro should be in a Pattern played by a specific pad. While holding down ERASE, tap a pad to erase (DRUMS, BASS, PERC). 4. EDITING PATTERNS - The PerformancePad Pro should be in Pattern mode and stopped. 2. ERASING AN ENTIRE ...the layer which you can continue to hold the ERASE button. ERASE FUNCTIONS ERASING DRUM EVENTS WHILE RECORDING While the PerformancePad Pro is held down ERASE, press the pad corresponding to the sound to be erased just before the first event to be in...
...down the 2 buttons, press REC (ENTER) to erase a drum wherever it occurs. 1. The PerformancePad Pro should be in a Pattern played by a specific pad. While holding down ERASE, tap a pad to erase (DRUMS, BASS, PERC). 4. EDITING PATTERNS - The PerformancePad Pro should be in Pattern mode and stopped. 2. ERASING AN ENTIRE ...the layer which you can continue to hold the ERASE button. ERASE FUNCTIONS ERASING DRUM EVENTS WHILE RECORDING While the PerformancePad Pro is held down ERASE, press the pad corresponding to the sound to be erased just before the first event to be in...
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... that was hit), will be added. If you play a pad and there is showing. If a drum exists between those beats that drum. That drum, along with its volume (how hard the pad was being displayed will be edited is already a drum event played by that pad on the displayed step, you go past it, but the...Pattern Step Edit Mode, use the INC / DEC buttons or VALUE dial, or tap the displayed drum pad at a time. Press the pad that corresponds to the sound you want to be erased. BEAT SUB-BEAT PAD NUMBER The display now shows the beat and sub-beat. First, you will need not show ...
... that was hit), will be added. If you play a pad and there is showing. If a drum exists between those beats that drum. That drum, along with its volume (how hard the pad was being displayed will be edited is already a drum event played by that pad on the displayed step, you go past it, but the...Pattern Step Edit Mode, use the INC / DEC buttons or VALUE dial, or tap the displayed drum pad at a time. Press the pad that corresponds to the sound you want to be erased. BEAT SUB-BEAT PAD NUMBER The display now shows the beat and sub-beat. First, you will need not show ...
User Manual
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...ON. Select OFF to inhibit MIDI timing signals from the PerformancePad Pro's MIDI OUT to a MIDI Note, as confirmed by pressing DRUMS, PERC or BASS. 2. To have MIDI Note numbers assigned. Enter the note number/name with a given pad. These are not individually selectable for each Pattern. Note:... The Bass part cannot have the PerformancePad Pro generate timing data at the MIDI out jack. 39 The display shows the note number/name in the upper left, and the drum pad number in the upper right window. 1. Note: MIDI Note assignments are...
...ON. Select OFF to inhibit MIDI timing signals from the PerformancePad Pro's MIDI OUT to a MIDI Note, as confirmed by pressing DRUMS, PERC or BASS. 2. To have MIDI Note numbers assigned. Enter the note number/name with a given pad. These are not individually selectable for each Pattern. Note:... The Bass part cannot have the PerformancePad Pro generate timing data at the MIDI out jack. 39 The display shows the note number/name in the upper left, and the drum pad number in the upper right window. 1. Note: MIDI Note assignments are...
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...17.2" x 14" x 2.5" (437 mm x 356 mm x 64 mm) www.alesis.com/performancepadpro 7-51-0337-A Reverb, EQ and Compression • Built-in rhythm patterns to complement your own beats • 8 natural feeling, velocity-sensitive drum pads • Large 32MB sound set, with percussion bank and bass synth sounds • ...THD+N: ~0.004% @ 1.38 kHz 8 velocity sensitive 16 / 24 500 (w/Dynamic Articulation™) 8 120 32-voice 7-position user programmable 8 loudness levels via pads, 127 via MIDI 96 ppq 1-128 beats per pattern 30-300 BPM 150,000 / 200 (100 user, 100 preset) / 100 100 user, 100 preset...
...17.2" x 14" x 2.5" (437 mm x 356 mm x 64 mm) www.alesis.com/performancepadpro 7-51-0337-A Reverb, EQ and Compression • Built-in rhythm patterns to complement your own beats • 8 natural feeling, velocity-sensitive drum pads • Large 32MB sound set, with percussion bank and bass synth sounds • ...THD+N: ~0.004% @ 1.38 kHz 8 velocity sensitive 16 / 24 500 (w/Dynamic Articulation™) 8 120 32-voice 7-position user programmable 8 loudness levels via pads, 127 via MIDI 96 ppq 1-128 beats per pattern 30-300 BPM 150,000 / 200 (100 user, 100 preset) / 100 100 user, 100 preset...