7. Sound formats and MIDI: Loading sounds into ddrum4 SE
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If you start to make new drum sounds in a sampler, please remember that you have to edit them in the
sampler before you transmit them to your ddrum4 SE. Make sure that the sample start point is correct
(no space before the actual sound) etc. Please note that the ddrum4 SE playback sample rate is 44.1 kHz.
If you load a MIDI sample that is sampled with a lower sample rate, the ddrum4 SE will automatically
adjust them. Sounds with a higher sample rate will be played back with a lower pitch. Adjust this with
the Pitch function described on
.
If you have the sounds on your computer hard disk, you need to check their size to see if they fit in the
ddrum4 SE sound memory. If you have a PC, just look in the directory to see the size of each sound file.
If you have a Mac OS computer you will have to check the size of the MIDI file with the “get info” com-
mand (command-I). Look for the info “bytes used:”. The Mac OS will not tell you the exact size of a file
if you just look in the directory of the Finder or in a folder. On the ddrum4 SE a ‘Block’ is approximately
1 kB. You can check the available space in the ddrum4 with the shift-mem.left function described on
. If the space isn’t enough you will need to delete sounds from the ddrum4 SE sound memory.
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This is extremely easy. You do not need to do anything with the ddrum4 SE module in order to receive
sounds via MIDI. Just make sure that the connections are correct and start the transmission from the
sending device (software, the sequencer or the sampler).
1. Connect the MIDI Out from your computer or sampler (if you are transmitting a MIDI Sample
Dump Standard sound) to the
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on the ddrum4 SE module. If the other device needs a
closed loop connection, also connect the
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of the ddrum4 SE to the MIDI In of the send-
ing device.
2. Start the MIDI Sysex transmission on the sending device.
The ddrum4 will automatically recognize the format of the incoming data. During this transmission, the
ddrum4 display will indicate the amount of blocks to load from each sound in the transfer. The trans-
mission of these sounds to the ddrum4 SE can take a while, especially if you want to load lots of sounds
or very long sounds.
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If you try to load a sound to the ddrum4 SE that does not fit in its memory, the
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by showing you the ‘FuL’ (full) error code. If this happens, please stop the transmission and wait a little
while until the ddrum4 SE reverts to normal operation (shown by the
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appearance).
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If you try to load a ddrum4 sound to the ddrum4 SE that already exists in the memory, the display will
alert you by showing you the duplicate error code, ‘duP’, and the data of that particular sound will be
ignored. This error code may also occur if you try to load two identically numbered MIDI Sample
Dumps into the ddrum4 SE. Please consult your Sample Dump sources manual for information regard-
ing the numbering of the samples in a sample dump.
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