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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Optimizing your computer system 604
Optimizing Songs 606
RAM requirements 608
Hardware Interface 609
Introduction 610
About using ReWire 611
Sampling Input section 611
Advanced MIDI Device 612
More Audio 612
The Big Meter 613
Kong Drum Designer 615
Introduction 616
Overview 616
The Pad Section 616
The Drum Control Panel 617
The Drum and FX Section 617
About using custom backdrops 617
About file formats 617
Using patches 618
Loading a Kit Patch 618
Checking the sounds in a Kit Patch 619
Creating a new Kit Patch 619
Creating an empty Kit Patch 620
Saving Kit Patches 620
Pad Settings 621
Assigning Drums to Pads 621
Renaming Pads 622
Copying & Pasting Drums between Pads 622
Assigning Hit Type to Pads 622
Muting and Soloing Pads 623
Working with Pad Groups 624
The Drum and FX section 625
Signal flow 626
The Drum Control Panel 628
Sampling in Kong 630
The Drum Module slot 630
The FX slots 631
The Drum modules 632
NN-Nano Sampler 632
Nurse Rex Loop Player 636
Physical Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 641
Synth Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 643
Synth Hi-hat 644
The Support Generator modules 645
Noise Generator 645
Tone Generator 646
The FX modules 647
Using CV modulation of Bus FX and Master FX
parameters 647
Drum Room Reverb 648
Transient Shaper 648
Compressor 649
Filter 650
Parametric EQ 650
Ring Modulator 651
Rattler 652
Tape Echo 652
Overdrive/Resonator 653
Connections 654
Sequencer Control 654
Modulation Input 654
Aux Send Out 654
Gate In and Out 655
Audio Out 3-16 655
Main Audio Out 655
Using Kong as an effect device 655
Using external effects with Kong 656