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2. The Front Panel

L1M's front panel is divided in 8 sections:

Fig.2-1: The L1MDrum Front Panel

A.

Main Volume:

 Simply -as you'd expect- sets the device global volume.

B.

MIDI In:

 Lits up indicating a MIDI Note On message.

C.

Drum Pads:

 These are the 16 drum pads which you can use to preview the sounds 

of the current drum set. Note that the pads “obey” the accent setting and they 
will trigger a sound at full velocity (127) instead of the default 100.

D.

Accent:

 The accent section of the device. Enabling the accent mode will cause 

the device to use only three velocity stages (weak, mid and strong hits) mimicking

the behavior of the reference hardware device. See more about accent on 
chapter 4.1. The Accent Mode.

E.

Level Mixer:

 The level mixer allows you to set the volume for each drum sound 

individually. The level setting will also affect those drum sounds that have been 

routed from their dedicated outputs.

F.

Panning:

 For all sounds which share the main output stereo pair, there's also an 

option to pan them left or right.

G.

Tuning Pots:

 This section enables you to tune specific sounds from the drum set. 

See more about this functionality on chapter 4.2. Tuning Your Sounds 

H.

Patch Browser:

 The Patch Browser in L1M's case is solely used to change the 

default drum samples of the device. You can load patches from our collection 
that's shipped with the device, or from other users, or even create your own. 

More on loading custom drum sets on chapter 4.3. Loading Custom Drum Sets.

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Page 3: ... do in an original LinnDrum was to alter the device drum set To do that musicians back in the day would open the unit itself and swap the actual sound chips on the board By using our ASIC Audio to String Interchange Conversion and taking it one step further you now can too change your L1M s drum set Yes We mean you can change individual samples or even the whole drum set Since L1M stores and uses ...

Page 4: ...vice See more about accent on chapter 4 1 The Accent Mode E Level Mixer The level mixer allows you to set the volume for each drum sound individually The level setting will also affect those drum sounds that have been routed from their dedicated outputs F Panning For all sounds which share the main output stereo pair there s also an option to pan them left or right G Tuning Pots This section enabl...

Page 5: ...from other devices to these CV inputs to control the amplitude of each level D Pan CV Mod Inputs You can also connect CV signals from other devices to the Pan CV Mod Inputs to control the pan position for each E Gate Outs You can use L1M to trigger external devices such as other drum machines by connecting the Gate Out of a specific drum sound to the gate in of that device F Gate Ins Subsequently ...

Page 6: ...o the upper strongest value while turning the knob fully right will return the velocity to it s full range 4 2 Tuning Your Sounds L1MDrum has the same tuning pots like its hardware counterpart The tuning span is approximately one octave 6 semitones Snare tuning also affects the Side Stick Rim shot pitch too The sixth tuning pot changes the decay of the closed hi hat At it s highest value the knob ...

Page 7: ...e subject to the same rules as their ASIC counter parts Meaning that they are truncated to each sound s designated memory length and resampled to 8 bit μLaw encoding at 24Khz When a user sample is deleted it then reverts to either the stock EPROM or the user EPROM sample stored within the patch Thus trying to delete an empty user sample will not have any effect to either the underlying stock or pa...

Page 8: ...dit delete select load and sample respectively At the top left there are 3 LEDs that reflect the status of that sound 1 V1 PATCH DATA OK When lit indicates that there is an ASIC packed sound present in the patch for the selected sound 2 SAMPLE OK Indicates that there s a user sample present and loaded correctly to the memory 3 OUT OF MEMORY When lit it indicates that the loaded sample is larger th...

Page 9: ...velSD LvSD 130 SIDESTICK Level LevelST LvST 131 HI HAT Level LevelHH LvHH 132 HI TOM Level LevelHT LvHT 133 MID TOM Level LevelMT LvMT 134 LOW TOM Level LevelLT LvLT 135 RIDE Level LevelRD LvRD 136 CRASH Level LevelCR LvCR 137 CABASA Level LevelCB LvCB 138 TAMBURINE Level LevelTB LvTB 139 HI CONGA Level LevelHC LvHC 140 LOW CONGA Level LevelLC LvLC 141 COWBELL Level LevelCB LvCB 142 CLAP Level Lev...

Page 10: ...Pan PanTB PnTB 154 HI CONGA Pan PanHC PnHC 155 LOW CONGA Pan PanLC PnLC 156 COWBELL Pan PanCB PnCB 157 CLAP Pan PanCP PnCP 158 SNARE Tuning SNARTune SDTn 159 HI TOM Tuning TMHITune HTTn 160 MID TOM Tuning TMMDTune MTTn 161 LOW TOM Tuning TMLOTune LTTn 162 HI CONGA Tuning CGHITune HCTn 163 LOW CONGA Tuning CGLOTune LCTn 164 HI HAT Decay HHATDcay HDcy Page 10 version 1 5 ...

Page 11: ...1 CABASSA 69 A3 CONGA HI 63 D 3 CONGA LOW 64 E3 COWBELL 56 G 2 CRASH 49 F 2 HANDCLAP 39 D 1 HH CLOSED 42 F 1 44 G 1 HH OPEN 46 A 1 RIDE 51 D 2 SIDESTK 37 C 1 SNARE 38 D 1 TAMBURINE 54 F 2 TOM HI 48 C2 50 D2 TOM LOW 41 F1 43 G1 TOM MID 45 A1 47 B1 Page 11 version 1 5 ...

Page 12: ... 3 The Rear Panel 5 4 Features 6 4 1 The Accent Mode 6 4 2 Tuning Your Sounds 6 4 3 ASIC Drum Sets 6 4 4 Custom Samples 7 APPENDIX I MIDI Remote Implementation Chart 9 APPENDIX II MIDI Drum Map 11 Reverse Lookup 11 TABLE OF CONTENTS 12 Page 12 version 1 5 ...

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