Once you’re ready to go, the SPD::ONE KICK’s robust-yet-sensitive pad can be played with sticks, hands, or feet, and trigger threshold settings are easily adjusted with intuitive controls. It contains 22 realistic percussion sounds, including kick drums, stomp box, shakers, cowbells, and more, and you can even import your own original audio data into one of the 12 internal sound banks. The Roland SPD::ONE KICK is a new type of digital percussion pad, one that allows any musician to add genuine kick drum and percussion sounds to their performances.
Whether you’re a drummer, percussion player, guitarist, DJ, or vocalist, the SPD::ONE ELECTRO is a simple and flexible way to expand your sound palette and invigorate your performances. Operation is simple, even for those musicians who are not technical just by using four knobs on the control panel, you can change the sound, volume, balance, and more.
ROLAND SPD 30 TRICKS PORTABLE
Powered by batteries or AC, the portable SPD::ONE ELECTRO can be used on the floor or a tabletop, or mounted to any rig or drum setup with the included adapter. Once you’re ready to go, the SPD::ONE ELECTRO’s robust-yet-sensitive pad can be played with sticks, hands, or feet, and the trigger threshold settings are easily adjusted with intuitive controls. It contains 22 iconic sounds, including fat snares, crisp hand claps, electronic cowbells, and more, and you can even import your own original audio data into one of the 12 internal sound banks. This can probably be avoided if you only use user kits on a USB stick but to me it didn't seem worth the extra hassle.The Roland SPD::ONE ELECTRO is a new type of digital percussion pad, one that allows any musician to add electronic sounds to their performances. Disadvantage of this method is that you do lose the layering on kits 90-99 for standalone operation of the SPD-30, but for me that seemed a small price to pay. Obviously, if you have any additional bass pedals etc connected to the SPD you can program them as well. It helps if you rename the SPD kits so that you know what they correspond to (eg my kit 93 is now called Rows 7&8 C3 to G3). This gives you 20 rows of drum rack slots and you can instantly switch between them using the kit select buttons on the SPD. And so on until Kit 99 takes care of notes 108 to 115 (G7). Move on to kit 91 and program notes 44 to 51.
Switch off all the layering on the SPD pads via the Menu (INST) function so that the pad only sends one MIDI note independent of velocity. Use the Menu MIDI option to edit kit 90 so that the bottom left pad sends out Note 36 (C1), the next one to the right Note 37 and so on to the top right at note 43 (G1). So, I have reprogrammed SPD kits 90 to 99 to all play different sets of two rows of drum rack slots. The SPD kits are all independent in terms of which MIDI notes each drum pad sends out. I have found another way that works very well for me, so I thought I'd share it to save someone some time perhaps. Maybe there is a way but I didn't really get anywhere with this approach.
ROLAND SPD 30 TRICKS HOW TO
Problem is, the SPD has only 8 pads and the drum racks a lot more – so how to do this? I fiddled around with MIDI effect racks for a while, trying to have different transpose units on different chains etc. Just got Live 9 and all those nice Session Drum packs, so I wanted to find a way of mapping my SPD-30 to all the drum rack pads.