Monday, December 28, 2009

Roland PMA-5 Drum Editing

Now that all the availible voice editing pamaters have been assigned to the Keystation, its time to move to the drum voices.

The parameters availible for drum editing are quite limited in comparison to the voice settings. Drum editing is different from voice editing in that each drum sound can be edited individually, basically key by key over the 61 keys that make up a drumkit. There are no filter or envelope settings, although this is typical for many Roland drum modules.
As well as being able to edit each drum instrument individually, the general midi controllers that apply to normal voice programming are still availible, but they apply to the entire drumkit as a whole.
CC1 Modulation- Not effective?
CC5 Portomento Time- ?
CC7 Volume- Sets volume limit of entire kit
CC10 Pan- Useful for extreme panning effects?
CC11 Expression- Useful
CC64 Hold- Drum instrumenst do not sustain
CC65 Porto On/Off
CC66 Sostenuto
CC67 Soft
CC84 Porto Control
CC91 Reverb Send
CC93 Chorus Send
NRPN
These are the commands that allow individual drum instruments to be edited
Coarse Pitch
Volume
Pan Random
Reverb Send
Chorus Send