User manual: FW V1.1.5

6.5 Playing, customising and accompanying songs

Your digital drum module features a total of 100 preprogrammed songs with dif‐

ferent styles: 70 patterns, 6 hits, 24 taps and 2 user songs. You can play the songs and

accompany them on the drum module. A song contains a drum part (containing the

rhythm in which you play the pads) and an accompaniment part (percussion and

melody). The volume of both parts can be adjusted separately.

1. Press [SONG].

The name and number of the current song appear in the display.

Use the arrow buttons ( / ) to select the parameter to be changed.

3. Use the arrow buttons ([<] / [>]) to change the parameter value.

Press to play and stop the songs.

Parameter, display Meaning Value range

NUMBER Number of the song.

n 1…60: Patterns

n 61…70: Percussion Loops

n 71…76: Hits

n 77…100: Taps

n 101…102: User songs

ACCOM VOL Accompaniment volume 0…16

DRUM VOL Drum kit volume 0…16

The drum module rst displays the music les recognized in the ‘SONG’ directory on

the USB stick. But you can switch to any other directory on the medium. From each

directory, the rst 99 music les are displayed.

Requirements for the music les:

n MIDI: SMF 0, track number less than 16, PPQN 480 maximum, le size 128 kB

maximum.

n WAV: Bit rate 1536 kbit/s maximum, sampling frequency 48 kHz maximum

n MP3: Bit rate 320 kbit/s maximum, sampling frequency 48 kHz maximum

If you want to play music les that do not meet these requirements, an error message

will appear in the display.

1. Press [SONG].

The name and number of the current song appear in the display.

2. Press [SONG] again.

The display shows the list of WAV, MP3 or MIDI les detected on the USB

stick.

Use the arrow buttons ( / /[<] / [>]) to navigate in the list.

4. Press [MENU] to open the ‘SONG’ menu.

Use the arrow buttons ( / ) to select the option ‘USB FOLDER’ to change to

another directory on the USB stick. Conrm with [ENTER].

Press to play and stop the songs.

Style selection

Song playback from USB stick

Operating

MPS-850

E-Drum Module