ION iDM02, Manual

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Page 3: ...ttern numbered 00 49 However each numbered Pattern actually contains four different sub Patterns A pair of independent Main Patterns A and B selected by their respective buttons A pair of associated Fill Patterns A Fill and B Fill selected by pressing the FILL button when either A or B is selected The Fills primarily provide transitional Patterns between Main Patterns which makes for more realisti...

Page 4: ... work similarly to a tape recorder 5 Pattern select buttons These choose between the A B and Fill variations for a Pattern 6 Mode buttons These choose between Pattern and Song modes Perform playback and Compose record modes and the Preset and User patterns 7 Function buttons These six buttons select various functions some of which include multiple pages of options 8 Tempo Page buttons These alter ...

Page 5: ...cting a drum pad this window displays the drum pad number Press PLAY For some operations it is necessary to press the PLAY button to confirm a particular operation such as copy or erase This portion of the display will say PRESS PLAY if it is necessary to press PLAY to complete an operation Page number and tempo display When stopped or running this shows the current tempo and includes a visual met...

Page 6: ...essing the INC button once increases the value of the entire number by one Pressing the DEC button once decreases the value by one These buttons and the TEMPO PAGE buttons also have a scroll feature If you press and hold a button after a short pause the display will either increment or decrement at a rapid rate Buttons that Toggle The Mode buttons FILL button and several function buttons DRUM SET ...

Page 7: ...USER before continuing To choose Perform mode press the PERFORM COMPOSE button until the Perform Compose section of the display shows PERFORM To choose Preset rather than User Patterns press the PRESET USER button until the display does not show USER If USER is not showing then Preset Patterns are selected 8 Try the following Enter a two digit number between 00 49 using the number keys then press ...

Page 8: ...with the INC DEC or number buttons KEYPAD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 NOTE VALUE 1 4 1 6 1 8 1 12 1 16 1 24 1 32 1 48 1 384 NOTE NAME QUARTER NOTE QUARTER NOTE TRIPLET EIGHTH NOTE EIGHTH NOTE TRIPLET 16th NOTE 16th NOTE TRIPLET 32nd NOTE 32nd NOTE TRIPLET 384th NOTE 3 3 3 3 off DISPLAY Quantization shifts your playing to the specified beat while you play so choose the desired value before tapping out your...

Page 9: ...air This imparts the kind of feel found in shuffles and some jazz tunes Example With Swing set to 62 the first note of the pair takes up 62 of the total duration of the pair of notes while the second note takes up 38 of the total duration Page 3 Enable Click Metronome And Set Rhythm Click Select The display shows CLICK SELECT the Click window shows the click s rhythmic value Enter the click value ...

Page 10: ...Fixed volume plays back the associated drum sound at one of eight possible volume levels With Fixed Volume 1 all drums assume the level of the softest possible tap regardless of how hard you tap the pads With Fixed Volume 8 all drums assume the level of the loudest possible tap regardless of how hard you tap the pads Fixed Volumes 2 7 provide the levels between the softest and loudest extremes wit...

Page 11: ...stopped The display says OFFSET which will be 00 384 no offset 2 Press the pad to be offset as confirmed by the display If you don t select a pad offset affects the entire Pattern 3 Enter the two digit offset value with the INC DEC or number buttons Positive numbers shift events ahead of the beat lead negative numbers shift events behind the beat lag The default is positive numbers to enter a nega...

Page 12: ...ides detailed Pattern editing Note that step does not refer to Song steps but to the steps in a Pattern that hold drum events You can move through a Pattern one step at a time stop at each event as desired and delete the event add an event or change an event s volume While occasionally somewhat tedious Step Edit mode allows editing drum parts to your exact specifications Each step also called a su...

Page 13: ...hat was being displayed will be erased Change a Drum Sound s Volume in a Given Step Use the PAGE buttons to select the step containing the drum whose volume needs to be changed Either press a number button from 1 8 1 softest 8 loudest use the INC DEC buttons or tap the displayed drum pad at the desired level If you play a pad to change the level and there are several events on the same step the di...

Page 14: ... also activates the click To listen choose Perform this de activates the click You can drop in and out of these two modes as you record While the iDM02 is in either mode you can change Pattern quantization swing click rhythm and volume pad velocity response name drumset drumset parameters and MIDI parameters Note Compose mode cannot be selected when using Preset Patterns since they cannot be alter...

Page 15: ...atterns within a Pattern number at any time The newly selected Pattern will play back as soon as the current Pattern plays through its entire length The display shows the Pattern to be played next To select a new Pattern in Perform mode enter the two digit Pattern number You can also enter a two digit Pattern number followed by A or B or PRESET USER to call up an A or B or Preset or User Pattern r...

Page 16: ...with the desired A or B designator and the newly selected Pattern will play back as soon as the current Pattern plays through its entire length The display will show the Pattern to be played next In Perform mode Fills are transitional Patterns If you press FILL in Compose mode a Fill will continue playing not transition to a different Pattern when it s finished playing so you can record into it li...

Page 17: ...either a Main or Fill Pattern contains previously programmed data the numbered Pattern will remember the Drum Set assignment name and length 1 The iDM02 must be in Pattern mode and stopped to allow erasing a Pattern 2 Enter the two digit Pattern number to be erased with the number or INC DEC buttons 3 Press and hold the ERASE button The display says PATTERN ERASE 4 While continuing to hold the ERA...

Page 18: ...ng a Main Pattern to a Fill The only copy technique that appends a Pattern to another Pattern is copying a Main Pattern to another Main Pattern Copy Append and Double Patterns 1 The iDM02 should be in Pattern mode and stopped 2 Select the Pattern to be copied 3 Press and hold the COPY button and keep holding it down until step 6 The display says COPY TO PATT 4 Enter the destination Pattern number ...

Page 19: ... as COPY is held down the destination pad can still be changed by selecting another drum pad 6 Press PLAY The display says COPY DONE 7 Release the COPY and PLAY buttons Copy a Single Drum Pad s Part to a Drum Pad in a Different Pattern This copy function merges the source drum pad rhythm with the destination drum pad rhythm in a different Pattern To replace the destination rhythm with the source r...

Page 20: ... save the Drum Set if desired Page 8 then press DRUM SET again to exit or choose another page Page 1 Select Drum Set Drumset Select The display shows DRUMSET SELECT the currently selected Drum Set number and whether the Preset or User Drum Set bank is currently selected 1 Press the PRESET USER button to choose the desired bank of Drum Sets 2 Enter the desired Drum Set number from 00 to 49 with the...

Page 21: ...ess the pad the display will show the pad number 2 Enter the desired pan position from full left to full right using either the number or INC DEC buttons The seven available pan positions correspond to the number buttons shown in parenthesis hard left 1 soft left 2 left of center 3 center 4 right of center 5 soft right 6 and hard right 7 3 When the display confirms your choice either store the edi...

Page 22: ...M02 can play up to 16 voices at a time so it s possible to run out of voices if you play a flurry of notes and have lots of pads in the Multi assign mode If 16 sounds are playing and you ask the iDM02 to play another one the sound that s closest to finishing its decay cycle will be stolen so that the most recent sound can be played In practice it s difficult and usually not artistically desirable ...

Page 23: ...Patterns doesn t call up different Drum Sets this parameter is probably set to MANUAL instead of PATT Background Each Pattern has an associated assigned Drum Set However you can tell the iDM02 to ignore these stored assignments and retain the currently selected Drum Set regardless of whether or not you change Patterns This is useful if you want to hear how a Pattern would sound with a different Dr...

Page 24: ...ORM mode 3 Enter a two digit Song number with the number or INC DEC buttons Song numbers must always include two digits enter a leading zero if necessary 4 Press PLAY to begin playback Press STOP to stop playback 5 To exit Song mode and return to Pattern mode first stop the Song with the STOP button then press the PATTERN SONG button Set Song Tempo Song tempo can be changed while the iDM02 is stop...

Page 25: ...INC DEC buttons to select the Song step at which you want the iDM02 to start playing 3 Press PLAY The iDM02 will start playing at the downbeat of the selected Song step 4 If you don t want to extend the Song length go into Perform mode before reaching the end of the Song If you do want to extend the Song length remain in Compose mode Name a Song NAME 1 The iDM02 can be in either Compose or Perform...

Page 26: ...DM02 will remember where you pressed FILL As in Pattern mode pressing FILL will automatically transition to the B Pattern if the A Pattern is currently playing and vice versa or will continue playing the same Pattern if the FILL button is held past the end of the Fill Real Time Song Editing If you have already recorded material in a Song pressing PLAY while in Compose mode will not allow recording...

Page 27: ... 3 Press and hold COPY and keep holding it down until step 6 The display says INSERT 4 Enter the two digit Pattern number to be inserted 5 Press PLAY The new step is inserted and all subsequent steps are automatically re numbered to reflect the addition of the inserted step e g what used to be step 05 is now step 06 what used to be step 06 is now step 07 etc 6 Release the INSERT and PLAY buttons D...

Page 28: ...step 6 The display says COPY TO SONG with the number of the currently selected Song 4 While continuing to hold the COPY button enter the destination Song number to which the source Song should be copied using the number or INC DEC buttons 5 While you continue to hold the COPY button down press PLAY The display will say COPY DONE Note If the destination Song was not empty then the source Song is ap...

Page 29: ...er Devices Clockout The display shows CLOCKOUT To have the iDM02 generate timing data at its MIDI out select ON Select OFF to inhibit MIDI timing signals from appearing at the MIDI out jack Page 3 Transmit Trigger Events Via Midi Out Trig Out The display shows TRIG OUT To have the iDM02 output MIDI note data from external triggers connected to the rear panel select ON Select OFF if you don t want ...

Page 30: ...be possible even if a small amount of memory is left This is because the iDM02 duplicates a Pattern before it is modified Determine whether you can erase any unwanted Patterns or Songs to free up some memory Clear Memory Re Initialize Parameters This operation clears the memory and re initializes all parameters It can also be a useful service technique to restore the iDM02 to normal operation if i...

Page 31: ...nabled 3 Press PLAY on the iDM02 The slave units should start at the same time and progress at the same tempo If the slaves respond to Song Position Pointer you can start an iDM02 Song at any point and after a few seconds the slaves will catch up and synchronize from that point on The following diagram shows two possible scenarios in which the iDM02 serves as the MIDI system master clock In scenar...

Page 32: ... you have a 16 measure figure where the first three groups of four measures are identical and the final group of four measures provides some sort of variation Recording this as one 16 measure Pattern will take up more memory than recording two Patterns one of the first group of four measures and one of the last group of four measures and while in Song mode repeating the first group three times fol...

Page 33: ...r there are some cases where you want to divide a beat into thirds giving three notes per beat Dividing a quarter note by three results in eighth note triplets The reason why we use the term eighth note triplets is because the eighth note is closest to the actual rhythmic value Dividing an eighth note by three results in 16th note triplets Dividing a 16th note by three results in 32nd note triplet...

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