MPS-10
- Playing the MPS-10
Playing the MPS-10
Now that you've made all the connections and the power turns on normally, get your drumsticks ready and play
the pads.
Performing with the pads
When you strike a pad with your drumsticks, for example, sound plays from the headphones connected to the
PHONES jack on this unit, and from the powered monitor speakers or other audio equipment connected to the
MAIN OUT L (MONO), R jacks.
Use the PHONES knob to adjust the volume of sound coming from the headphones jack, and use the MAIN VOL.
knob to adjust the volume of the MAIN OUT L (MONO), R jacks.
On some KITs, the sound can change or the effects may sound different depending on how hard you strike the
pads.
Pad LED color
The pads make sounds when you strike them if the LED in front of
each pad is lit up in blue (cyan) or in red (magenta). The LEDs light
up more brightly when the pads are making sounds.
The LED colors differ depending on the sound that's assigned to the
pad, as follows:
Pad LED
Red (magenta): one-shot sound; blue (cyan): repeating sound; green
(viridian): no sound (no assignment)
CC pads
There are four thinner pads located at the top of the panel. These
pads sense where they are struck, and are called CC pads. You can
use the position sensing feature of these CC pads to control the
effect parameters and so on.
For instance, you can play these pads continuously from left to right to achieve the effect of a filter opening,
among other effects.
A bar is shown for the current position of the CC pad on the top page of display KIT mode, for KITs whose CC
pad is enabled (if the SW MODE is LOOPER or SET LIST).
By switching the SW MODE to CC PAD, you can use the track 1–4 buttons to switch the CC pad function on/off.
Changing the KITs
A "KIT" consists of 10 pad sounds in the MPS-10, four pad sounds that can be connected externally, and the
sound that can be played when you press a connected expression pedal, for a total of 15 different sounds.
By selecting this KIT, you can switch between the sounds assigned to each pad and play them.
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