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Page 1: Quick Start Guide
PRO for malletKAT Pro & malletKAT Pro KS Quick Start Guide Alternate Mode Inc. 53 First Ave., Chicopee, MA 01020 T el. 413-594-5190 Fax. 413-592-7987 Email: katsales@alternatemode.com Website: www.alternatemode.com Version 7 Rev. 0512... - Page 3 WELCOME to the malletKAT Quick–Start Guide! Congratulations! You have purchased the world’s most powerful MIDI mallet percussion Controller. This guide is designed to get you started as quickly as possible. We are leaving most of the technical programming material out of this guide. There’s the full manual for that.
- Page 4 ARTICULATIONS When you first started studying how to play the mallets, you had to learn the layout of the “land”. The malletKAT is much the same, only it has an enormous “land”. For example, you can learn how to bend notes like a guitar or flute player, or add vibrato to your sound. You can dampen notes like a vibe player.
- Page 5 (1) piece of felt with adhesive, (2) aluminum strapping bars, (1) 7 pin Expander Cable You will need a Phillips screwdriver. To attach your Expander to the malletKAT PRO or malletKAT EXPRESS, turn the unit off and unplug all cords. Turn the malletKAT upside down on a flat surface. Position the Expander upside down next to the LOWEST octave of the malletKAT.
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Page 6: Back Panel
LAYER MODE PRESSURE Hang, Double, Melody Chord123 Alternate Mode, Velocity Shift, Normal Sustain, Dampen, DeadStroke Velocity S. Point CONNECTIONS ON THE malletKAT KEYBOARD MODE V WHEEL 2 Poly, Mono, MOverlap, MHSmoothing PolyCount, RTC, PTW, CTLA Let’s take a look at all of the connections and buttons on the malletKAT. Take a look at the diagram. - Page 7 Audio Ins/Outs: Hang, Double, Melody Chord123 the malletKAT are four audio jacks. The two holes on the LEFT are INPUT jacks. You can Alternate Mode, Velocity Shift, Velocity S. Point plug your CD player into these jacks and play along with...
- Page 8 PLAYING SOUNDS Are you ready to check out the malletKAT? If you have a malletkAT KS, turn it on now and start playing. A listing of USER Kits is found on page 32. If you have an external sound module, make sure that you plug a MIDI cable from the MIDI OUT port on the malletKAT to the MIDI IN port on your module.
- Page 9 What is a FUNCTION anyway? A FUNCTION on the malletKAT controls how the malletKAT operates when you play on it. If you look at the words underneath the keys on the malletKAT, you will see lots of words in CAPS. These are the FUNCTIONS that reside under those pads. Sometimes there are a group of FUNCTIONS that are closely related to a TYPE of FUNCTION.
- Page 10 WHAT is the DISPLAY SAYING? There are four lines of text on the display. The display changes it’s look as different features are called up. Let’s begin with the first Line KIT NUMBERS The very first character on Line one will either be: F followed by a number.
- Page 11 Mel3= Melody Chord Mode 3 VEL S = Velocity Shift Mode Alt = Alternate Mode Layer Modes tell the malletKAT how to control its sound layers. These layers are called CONTROLLER ONE AND CONTROLLER TWO. These Layers can be total independent, layered, velocity shifted, alternated or used as a controller function.
- Page 12 KEYBOARD MODES On line two immediately after the Controller number is displayed, a choice of what Keyboard mode is also displayed. The Keyboard Modes are: Poly, Mono, RTC, PTW, CTLA Poly. This means that you can play more than one note at the same time. This is the normal mode for instruments like piano, Mono.
- Page 13 DEAD STROKE After you strike a note, you can get another sound from the same pad by applying pressure to the pad. You will learn more about Pressure Modes in the malletKAT manual. INSTRUMENT NAMES / KIT NAMES / NONE On the third line of the display, you can choose one of three options for what will be displayed on that line.
- Page 14 Finally there is the letter V. This represents the Volume Number. As you can see, each kit in the malletKAT stores a Bank, Program and Volume Number. It acts like a mixer, completely setting up your synth with the right sound and the right volume.
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Page 17: Table Of Contents
The 20 Things you Want to Know without Reading the Manual We get it. You don’t want to read the manual. You’ve already figured out that the malletKAT is really powerful. I mean really, really powerful. Your guessing that harnessing this power requires knowing about lots of features, functions, etc. - Page 18 VOLUME..22 DIFFERNCE BETWEEN EXPRESS and the other MALLETS..23 DON’T HEAR ANY SOUNDS..23 RESET THE MALLETKAT..24 MEMORY PROTECT (SAVING KITS)..25 CHANGE THE OCTAVE..25 CONTROLLER ONE, CONTROLLER TWO..25 HANG, SPLIT, LAYER MODES..26 DAMPEN OR NORMAL..27 CHAINS (How do I make my own)..
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Page 19: Basic Interface How Do I Edit The Malletkat
BASIC INTERFACE How do I Edit the malletKAT You may have noticed that there aren’t any buttons for editing with the exception of the volume buttons. Take a look at the “white” keys. Notice that there is a function listed di- rectly underneath each pad. -
Page 20: Setups (Vrs Programs And Sounds)
SETUPS VRS PROGRAMS or SOUNDS Understanding the difference between a Setup, Program or Sound can be confusing. Often when thinking about calling up a specific sound,what’s really wanted is a particular Setup. Any sound that you hear on the malletKAT is really some Program Number. There are over 1000 sounds or Programs in the malletKAT. -
Page 21: Difference Between Factory, User And Chains
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FACTORY KITS, USER KITS and CHAINS A KIT is another word for SETUP. There are 127 FACTORY Setups in the malletKAT. These FACTORY Kits are designed to work with an EXTERNAL sound source that uses the GEN- ERAL MIDI Standard. This is a collection of sounds that has a standardized Program Num- ber List. -
Page 22: Change Sounds
Tap on the F natural pad (3rd from top). It says BANK. When you tap on the F natural pad, you will see that you have either selected FACTORY KITS, USER KITS or CHAINs. You can change what group of Kits you want by tapping on the INCrement D# or DECrement C# pads. -
Page 23: Bank And Programs
So the black number pads are C#=1 D#=2 F#=3 G#=4 A#=5 next octave up C#=6 D#=7 F#=8 G#=9 A#=0 BANKS and PROGRAM CHANGES Changing a sound on the malletKAT in a particular SETUP KIT that you are playing in is performed by: Stepping on the Edit Footswitch, While Held down, tap on the high C pad. -
Page 24: Volume
you have to change the bank number. Now you need to go to the back of the manual and look at the list of sounds for the mal- letKAT 7KS. On the top line of each list is a bank number. A bank number consists of two parts called MSB xx and LSB xx. -
Page 25: Differnce Between Express And The Other Mallets
sets the volume range of the sound, and stores that value in the SETUP. To store a value, Step on and hold down the KIT Edit Footswitch. Now tap on the high B natural pad. Use the INC or DEC pads to set the KIT volume. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EXPRESS and other malletKATs All of the malletKATs regardless of size have the same functions. -
Page 26: Reset The Malletkat
That could do it! On the malletKAT, if you turn it off and then back on again too quickly, the sound card does not have enough time to reset itself, and the result is no sounds. The cure...simply shut off the instrument and wait 10 seconds. -
Page 27: Memory Protect Saving Kits
MEMORY PROTECT SAVING KITS The malletKAT automatically saves any setting that you change as long as you are using USER Kits and the Memory Protection is set to OFF. Factory Kits lose any changes that you make as soon as you leave the kit regardless of this setting. -
Page 28: Hang, Split, Layer Modes
have their own dedicated sustain footswitch. In order to make your own two sounds play on a kit, you have to know a little bit about programming. The actual manual goes into detail on how to do this, but here is the nutshell of information needed to make this work. -
Page 29: Dampen Or Normal
SPLIT MODE. Like the word implies, you can split the keyboard so that you have one sound on the right and one sound on the left. The malletKAT does something a bit more interesting. It allows you to overlap your Split points so that you can have a layered sound as well as split zones. -
Page 30: Chains (How Do I Make My Own)
While Held Down, tap on the Dampen pad (a natural 3rd from top). Let go of Footswitch. If you want to shut Dampening off and use normal playing, Step on the Edit Footswitch, While Held Down, tap on the Normal pad ( g natural 3rd from top). Let go of Footswitch. CHAINS How do I make my own If you are reading this section, it is probably because you have found some sounds that you... - Page 31 Now move the cursor over to the STEP by using the Forward pad. Make sure that you are on step 01. If not, use the INC or DEC to get it there. Now move the cursor again (forward pad) until it goes to the second line. The screen says SETUP.
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Page 32: Gate Time Control (How Long A Sound Sustains)
GATE TIME How long a sound sustains If you just tapped the pad and there wasn’t any Gate Time control, every sound would be extremely short. The Gate Time Setting allows you to decide how long the sound plays when you are not stepping on the sustain pedal. On the malletKAT, the Gate time is set in milliseconds. -
Page 33: Pitch Bend
PITCH BEND The malletKAT has the ability to bend notes using the sustain two Footswitch. There are several things you need to set up to get this to happen. Controller one and Controller Two must be on the same MIDI Channel Controller Two’s Gate Time should be set to a low value, say 100mS When editing Controller TWO, tap on the MONO pad (the 2nd f natural) FOUR TIMES. - Page 34 malletKAT KS User Setups USER NAME CHAIN USER NAME CHAIN Marimba Plate C2-03 WindHornString C13-06 Piano Strings C3-02 MoreBrassStr C8-01 Steves Rhodes C3-03 Mellow Marimba C2-09 Bcow Clav C3-04 GothicClimax C8-02 Rich Marimba C2-02 Final Victory C8-03 LA Strings C7-01 Slo Interlude C8-04 Pizzacato...
- Page 35 malletKAT KS Chains CHAIN NAME USER CHAIN NAME USER C1-01 Thick Vibes C6-02 Vibes Gtr C1-02 Real Vibes C6-03 Vibes:Bass C1-03 Chorus Vibes 2 C6-04 Synth+Bass C1-04 Vibe Dream C6-05 PianoStrBass C1-05 Creamy Vibes C6-06 Piano*Bass C1-06 Vibe Trance C7-01 LA Strings C1-07 Surreal Vibes...
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