Alesis PerformancePad Pro Support Question
Alesis PerformancePad Pro Support Question
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Question posted by melvincollins654 on December 1st, 2016
Alexis Sample Pad Pro
hi I recently purchased an Alexis sample pad pro my question I'm trying to create loop and im unsuccessful at the moment do I need SD card to make complete loop or can it be done without SD card
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Answer #1: Posted by Troubleshooter101 on January 9th, 2017 9:13 AM
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Thanks for the post. I'd like to help! Log onto the SamplePad Pro product page to download the samples for your SD card - www.alesis.com. The following directions will show a user how to load supported wav files and kits onto an SD card by using your computer.
1. Insert your SD Card into the SamplePad Pro.
2. Connect your SamplePad Pro to your computer.
3. Turn on the SamplePad Pro.
4. After the SamplePad Pro is done booting up, hold down the LEFT and UP OPTIONS arrows to enter the Options Mode.
5. Select LOAD SAMPLES/KITS VIA USB by pressing the RIGHT arrow. Your computer will now attempt to connect to your SamplePad Pro. Note: This may take a few minutes depending if you're using a PC or Mac.
6. When ready, for PC users, open your Windows Explorer Window and navigate to your SD card. For Mac users, open your Applications Window and navigate to your SD card.
7. Open this location and you can now add your supported .WAV files and kits to the SD card. If you downloaded third party sounds, move or copy those files into this SD Card location.
8. When finished, Right Click your SD Card in the window and select EJECT. This will safely eject your SD card from your computer.
9. You may now exit from the SamplePad Pro by holding the LEFT and UP OPTIONS arrows.
10. That's it.
To adjust the Mode of the pad or ext. trigger for Looping:
1. Strike a pad or ext. trigger.
2. Move the cursor to the MODE area by pressing the Cursor Up or Cursor Down buttons.
3. Then press the Cursor Left or Cursor Right buttons to select LOOP mode.
LOOP
After a pad or ext. trigger is struck, the sample will continue to playback from the beginning after it reaches the end of the sample. To stop the loop, strike the pad or ext. trigger again.
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Related Alesis PerformancePad Pro Manual Pages
Quick Start Guide - Page 3
... volume control on your power amp and the PerformancePad Pro should be all the way down, and power to the PHONES OUTPUT. 3. Tap the pads to an amplifier, mixer, or speakesystem. You can be off.
1. QUICKSTART GUIDE (ENGLISH)
BOX CONTENTS
Please make sure the following items can switch among the three different sound categories...
Quick Start Guide - Page 4
... your performance.
PRESET Patterns provide a variety of Patterns which makes for more...PerformancePad Pro allows you can select Patterns in real-time and the PerformancePad Pro will remember your patterns in the order in live performance...PerformancePad Pro, you to quickly and easily program drum, percussion and bass sounds into rhythm Patterns and to a verse, chorus, bridge, instrumental...
Quick Start Guide - Page 5
... a tempo. OVERVIEW OF THE CONTROLS
Now that we have introduced you to the infrastructure of the PerformancePad Pro, let's dive in and take a closer look at a rate equal to the tempo displayed on the PerformancePad Pro. PAD PLAY BUTTONS - PADS - To select which sounds are required to confirm or cancel an action.
5 These 3 buttons select which...
Quick Start Guide - Page 6
...a selected instrument layer. ...moment the pad is pressed until either the pad... or the ERASE button is the chorus).
8.
Note that the combined Song length cannot exceed more than 254 steps. 1. These buttons are used to Patterns of two Main sub-patterns - The different functions can also be appended to increment and decrement through values and settings on the PerformancePad Pro...
Quick Start Guide - Page 7
... by professional drummers and cannot be stuck and will need to make sure that you to change the settings on which are...if in Record Setup Mode. You can perform or program your Pattern or Song sequence to create a Song.
STEP EDIT - You can... With the Pads" section. This button calls up the Effects menu, where you wish.
18. MODE BUTTONS:
16. If the PerformancePad Pro is to ...
Quick Start Guide - Page 9
... Mode. PLAYING PATTERNS WITH THE PADS
The PerformancePad Pro allows you to play sequences of Pattern by selecting a Pattern and pressing PLAY. The display will start - Finally, press PTN PLAY again to be triggered with the pad.
STEP 4
Fills do not always have to exit the edit screen and continue performing.
9 If you would continue...
Quick Start Guide - Page 11
... BASS) and then playing out a sequence on the pads. Note that the Quantization and Swing settings will display the Pattern's current Beat Number. If you make a mistake while recording, you can add more Patterns,...record more layers until you to the beat.
MUTING INSTRUMENT LAYERS
The PerformancePad Pro allows you are satisfied with the INC / DEC buttons or VALUE dial, and repeat...
Quick Start Guide - Page 14
... this example) shows the current Song Step.
STEP 6
To select the Pattern which variations were selected, and when you can remember the order in PerformancePad Pro's Song Mode creates a complete Song. STEP 4
Press the PATTERN / SONG buttons to switch back to select the first pattern.
Remember to display NEXT and the cued Pattern number...
User Manual - Page 2
... Patterns in real time, and the PerformancePad Pro will be 8,16, or 32 beats long, and correspond to start creating Songs in real-time. Rather than recording a Pattern. If the memory fills up with a drum machine, it twice when assembling a Song. INTRODUCTION
WELCOME TO THE PerformancePad Pro MULTI-PAD INSTRUMENT
The PerformancePad Pro includes high-fidelity drum, percussion and...
User Manual - Page 3
...just like the way that "real" drum, percussion and bass instruments produce sound when played with drum machines.
It is important to ...loop" over and over to the pad will remain in live performance-something usually not associated with different amounts of pad volume resolution, from soft to correct for more realistic drum parts.
The PerformancePad Pro excels at live performance...
User Manual - Page 6
... the PerformancePad Pro.
13. A Song is to copy it to another (i.e. The display will indicate STEP EDIT while in Step Edit Mode, and the current step will be erased from verse to erase Patterns or Songs. This button enables Pattern Play Mode. transition from the moment the pad is pressed until either the pad or...
User Manual - Page 9
... in Song mode. Pattern/Song readout (also Drum Set edit and drum pad readout) - This shows the selected Song or Pattern number; Drumset Edited ...music notation (or OFF if quantization is a reminder that have edited a Drum Set to be entered.
1. This is off ).
8. For functions that you need to save your changes if you know which instrument layer you monitor the PerformancePad Pro...
User Manual - Page 11
....
6. The upper right of the display should show PRESET). Try pressing one of the selected Pattern. ƒ Press FILL briefly...pads.
9. Then, press PLAY to select the next higher-numbered Preset Pattern. If the FILL button is held down TAP TEMPO and use the VALUE dial (or INC / DEC buttons) to a musical instrument amplifier, PA, or plug headphones into the wall. Plug the PerformancePad Pro...
User Manual - Page 12
... to play the A variation. The newlyselected Pattern will play with the pads. Press PLAY again while a Pattern or Song is currently playing, the new Pattern number will play up to 3 Octaves of Patterns.
ƒ Playing Patterns
1. THE INSTRUMENT LAYERS
The PerformancePad Pro allows you to play three different kinds of styles, and other rhythms...
User Manual - Page 15
...CREATING DRUM SETS'. The PerformancePad Pro will show EMPTY PATT). 3. Note that you want to contain a different bass instrument. Press the REC and PLAY buttons. The Pattern will "loop" during the record process so that will need... PerformancePad Pro will not record what you play on the pads. While in the upper right corner of the pad). 2. The BASS mode will have a pitched sample ...
User Manual - Page 17
... pad and parameter settings associated with this set number is displayed on the bottom line. After making all needed ... the instrument layer which is loaded when the Drum Set is recalled.
ƒ BASS SOUNDS -
The PerformancePad Pro includes ...Set assignments have fixed Drum Set assignments; CREATING AND EDITING DRUM SETS
The PerformancePad Pro's 8 pads can be used with the Drum
Set....
User Manual - Page 18
... like to different pads). The volume of the sound assigned to any of the PerformancePad Pro's sounds to the pad on the top line).
3. Press the pad (the display will show the selected pad number in the ...or VALUE dial.
18 Enter the desired volume, from 00 (off) to more than one pad. Select the instrument layer which you would like to edit by pressing DRUM, PERC or BASS. (Note that ...
User Manual - Page 28
...INC/DEC buttons.
3. The PerformancePad Pro should be in Record Mode. 2. You can erase any individual drum event or series of 8 beats). ERASE ALL INSTRUMENT EVENTS IN SUB-PATTERN
This ...drum wherever it occurs.
1. turn quantization off to hold the button
corresponding to that pad. Release both Main and Fill Patterns associated with the current quantization and swing values;
While...
User Manual - Page 38
... functions. After making all content from pad hits and Pattern...pad hits or when playing a Pattern/Song, use this feature to append all needed...don't want the PerformancePad Pro to transmit note data.
To change an instrument layer's MIDI ...PerformancePad Pro can output MIDI data from the selected Song to the end of another page. Select OFF if you to an empty destination will create...
User Manual - Page 39
...affect every Pattern. Enter the note number/name with a given pad.
Page 5 / SEND CLOCK VALUE TO OTHER DEVICES (CLOCKOUT) The PerformancePad Pro can respond to MIDI timing signals. ƒ These signals go ...MIDI NOTE NUMBERS TO DRUM PADS (NOTE) This page allows you wish to edit
by the Drum Pad Number display. 3. This number describes both the MIDI Note which instrument layer you to specify ...
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