Dm-5

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What up yall.
I just finally just got a Dm-5 any one wanna give me a crash course on this thing?
Thanks.
-Rick
p.s. I dont have a manuel.
 
DM5

I can help - but you've got to ask more specific questions. In particular, how are you triggering the unit (with a midi keyboard or with drum pads). You should check the Alesis web site to see if you can down load a manual.

For basic understanding - the key buttons to understand are:

Voice - To assign a specific sound to each midi note (sounds are grouped by kick, snare, tom cymbal percussion, etc

Tune - To change the pitch of the sound

Mix - To assign a volume to a voice and to pan it left/right

Output - To assign to sounds to the main or aux outputs

Drum Set - To use internal kits (or assign new kits) Note: If I remeber you can press the drum set button and while holding this button, press the store button - this will allow you to recall factory settings for drum kits and assign them to a specific kit location - then press store to store the kit

Group - Multi allows a sound to continue if hit more than once (like if you hit a cymbal and then hit it again) Single a new hit will cut out the previous sound and Group 1 & 2 which can be used to assign an open and closed hi-hat, so the closed hi-hat cuts off the open sound.

Hope this helps - if you need more info - again try to ask specific questions!!
 
Ok a question on this.
I can only seam to find 20 patches on this thing is that right?
I thought that there would be more.....
 
There are only 20 drum set patches - but, there are a couple of hundred voices (patches) which can be assigned to the drum sets. You first call up a drum set, and then you can assign different voices to that drum set.

I have built several drum sets (rock set, country set, R&B set, etc). Each set has a different snare, different toms, etc. - I then store those sets to the 20 drum set patches.
 
Mic trig

Ok two more questions.
One, I read in another post of someone using a mic to triger the kick sounds in there DM-5, how does this work? How do I set it to do that and can it just be on one triger input?

Two what kind of foot switch can I use to open/close the Hihat?
I have sustain switches from my keyboards and the only thing I can do is plug em into the f/swtch jack and change patches do I have to assign the trig input to a h/h pedal?

Thanks for all your help.
 
I'm not sure what you mean by useing a mic to trigger kick drum sounds. I am not aware of triggering a drum machine with a mic. In a studio I've worked in we took direct outs from a board to send previously recorded analog drum sounds through a signal to MIDI converter (the input jacks on the DM5 are signal to MIDI converters) into a drum machine (to replace accoustic drums with sounds from a machine). I suppose there is a way to send a signal through a mic into a converter and then into the DM5 - but I don't know how accurately it will track.

Regarding what pedal to use for hi-hat - I'm not that hip on the technical end of how pedals send signals - but I believe many "keyboard" pedals send simple open/close signals. I believe the DM5 can accept either - but if the sound is "backword" (open when you want close) you need to turn of the machine and turn it on again - I believe the machine will then adjust to the pedal. Anytime you use external jacks have them in before you turn the amchine on so it can "look for them".

To set up external triggers you need to use the front panal button marked external trigger - there are several "pages" one of which is to assign a pedal type. Useing external triggers is much more complicated than useing basic MIDI - you need to set velocity curves and all kinds of other stuff. Way more than I can hope to explain in this written format.

If you plan to use triggers you really need an instruction manual - or you just need to play with all the pages in the external trigger sub-group till you figure it out.

Good luck!!!
 
dm5 manual

Heres a link to the manual on alesis' site. They have links to manuals for all their products... the DM5 manual is actaully split into a few different links, so i'll just give you the link to the page with all the manuals. I have a DM5 too, and the manual is very helpful... there is also a sheet that lists all the drum sounds which can be pretty handy :)

http://www.alesis.com/downloads/manuals/index.html
 
hey thanks for your help on the manuels i have been just trying ta figure it out without it and gettin pissed.
thanks.
-Reco
 
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