User Manual

KONG DRUM DESIGNER
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The Drum Control Panel
The Drum Control Panel at the bottom left of the panel shows the name and “macro parameter” settings for the se-
lected pad in the pad section. From the Drum Control Panel you can also load and save Drum Patches as well as ini-
tiate sampling. See “The Drum Control Panel”.
The Drum and FX Section
By clicking the Programmer button below at the bottom of the Drum Control Panel you can bring up the Drum and
FX Section. Here is where you can edit your drum sounds and combine with various types of sound processors and
FX. See “The Drum and FX section”.
About using custom backdrops
As with the Combinator device, it is possible to customize the Kong front panel graphics with a user-designed skin. In
the Reason Download section at the Propellerhead website is the “Combi and Kong Backdrop Templates” zip file,
which can be used as starting point for designing your own Kong panel graphics. See the “Read Me.txt” file in the
Backdrops folder for more details. Note that you should use separate backdrops for folded vs. unfolded states.
About file formats
Kong can read the following file types:
Kit Patches
A Kong Kit Patch (Windows extension “.kong”) contains all settings for all 16 Drum sound channels, including file ref-
erences to any used drum samples (but not the actual samples themselves). Switching patches is the same as se-
lecting a new drum kit.
Drum Patches
A Kong Drum Patch (Windows extension “.drum”) contains all settings for the selected Drum sound channel, includ-
ing file references to any used drum samples (but not the actual samples themselves). Switching Drum Patches is
the same as selecting a new drum sound.
Drum Samples
The audio file format support differs depending on which computer OS you are using.
The NN-Nano Sampler module in Kong can read and play back sample files of the following formats:
•In Windows 7:
.wav, .aif, .mp3, .aac, .m4a and .wma.
• In Mac OSX 10.7:
.wav, .aiff, .3g2, .3gp, .mp1, .mp2, .mp3, .mpeg, .mpa, .snd, .au, .sd2, .ac3, .aac, .adts, .amr, .caf, .m4a .m4r and .mp4.
• SoundFonts (.sf2)
SoundFonts are an open standard for wavetable synthesized audio, developed by E-mu systems and Creative
Technologies.
• REX file slices (.rx2, .rex, .rcy)
REX files are music loops created in the ReCycle program or when editing audio clips inline in Reason (see
“Bounce Clip to REX Loop”). The NN-Nano lets you load separate slices from REX files as individual samples.