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RE: FS Roland SPD-6 MIDI Percussion controller w/sounds

Title: RE: FS Roland SPD-6 MIDI Percussion controller w/sounds

>>Great stuff.  How did you get timps. onto it?

it was talking to a sampler.... I don't know about all the spd models, but the spd-8 has maybe 100 or so of it's own noises (which aren't bad- editable for volume, tuning, pan, velocity sensitivity and decay) which all fall out of a stereo pair at the back. IIRC, it also has an audio input which is just a simple mix with it's own sounds, though we only used this a couple of times.

the really cool thing though, is that the 16 pad locations (8 real, 8 shifted) and the pedal inputs each have separate midi note number /and/ channel settings /per patch/. it gets better- each patch can store PC's under each pad, so that you can set one/some/all pads to the same channel and issue PC's to connected sound modules, effects &c, whenever you change patch. so in theory, you could use it to drive a repeater quite easily......

it was the first of many items I described to my band as being "the best £300 I even spent".
the thing seems to be gig-proof aswell.

d.




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