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In order to make sure all Kit-Pieces are loaded, the currently-loaded kit
layout can be viewed by clicking on the main drumkit graphic, upon which
the Kit Display appears: an overhead view of the kit, with a box for each
individually-loadable Kit-Piece.
Each Kit-Piece box contains a graphical representation of whatever is loaded into
it (it will be blank if nothing is loaded into it), and a button. You can now quickly
audition each part of the kit by clicking on its graphic, the click position maps from
bottom to top for increasing velocity. You can clear individual Kit-Piece slots by
clicking the in the corner of each box. Clicking on the Kit-Piece name labels in
the mixer area also previews sounds – this time left to right for increasing velocity.
When you have finished with this view, click the graphic again in order to exit the
Kit Display.
Customizing your drumkit…
You can customize the loaded drumkit by replacing individual Kit-
Pieces. To do this, click the Kit-Piece Selector buttons. Each of these
brings up an individual panel with which to select from the numerous
included kicks, snares, hihats, toms and cymbals.
For example, to replace the snare, firstly click the snare icon :
you will be presented with a panel similar in appearance to the
Kit Selector panel, except that it contains different types of snares
instead of whole drumkits. When you move the mouse over each
snare type, the information display is updated with useful data
regarding each one. One of the most important pieces of information
to be aware of in the Kit-Piece selectors is the display of each Kit-
Piece’s ‘hits’. This shows which types of hits are present in the data
for each drum. For example, most snares have a standard hit, drag,
flam, rim and side-stick. Similarly, most kick drums have the kick
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