![]() Once you have all your sample ducks in a row, place your USB stick into the module. Also, samples must be in wav format they also must also be mono, so there might well be some editing involved if you want to get your sounds to work. The manual says this works with a USB stick ranging from 4-64GB (weirdly, our 2GB drive worked fine), but it must be formatted to DOS Fat 32 (easily done). Remember, the USB feature allows you to import samples and assign them to a pad. With a little configuring you can tease pretty much every kind of sound you need out of the raw samples – this will handle all playing styles.Įither connect your phone or device to the 3.5mm aux input, or plug in a USB memory stick. Surprisingly, there is a very respectable amount of tuned percussion, which works out very playable by virtue of playing surfaces equipped with dual-zone sensors. On the electro side, you've got all the usual suspects – snappy snares, hand claps, 808 kicks and Simmons-style toms. Your choice of acoustic kits includes studio all-rounders to some sophisticated samples of brushed jazz kits – and there are rock, funk and ‘power’ style sounds in there, too. The sounds are solid and safe, with everything you need. We've seen others with simpler navigation, but once you get the hang of tapping through the options it's no big deal. Select each voice in the kit by hitting the relevant playing surface then adjusting parameters – volume, decay time, pitch, reverb etc – to your liking. Delving deeper for some heavy editing and new sounds always requires a bit more mashing of the menu and cursors. The large rotary control in the middle is central to controlling everything, and, as expected, cycling through the preset kits is a piece of cake. You might have to remind yourself that this is a mid-priced outfit when you see the Command module it certainly sets itself apart from the competition. It's not much fun but there's no workaround – at least it is made easy by a photographic guide. You know the drill the first job is to build it. The rack for the kit in a ‘flat pack’ style.
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