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Roland’s new Octapad– the SPD-20 PRO released with a bang in November 2020. Powered by the BMC chip, it comes with newly added superior quality Indian percussion sounds while maintaining the same DNA as of the classic SPD-20 and SPD-20X- giving its user a feeling of nostalgia.

Be it devotional, folk or Bollywood music- this Octapad allows musicians to expand their creative possibilities endlessly and give their best performance each time!

In this blog, we’ll look at the typical day-to-day uses and functions of the Roland SPD-20 PRO in detail.

INSTRUMENTS AND KITS (PATCHES)
The SPD-20 PRO comes in-built with more than 900 instruments, and 200 kits. Out of these, 100 are pre-set kits and 100 are user kits.

On popular demand, new high definition sound kits like Dholak, Chenda, Tasha, Morsing, Tabla, Halgi, Mridangam, Khanjira, Santoor and Ghatam have been added

DISPLAY AND VALUE BUTTON
The SPD-20 PRO comes with 2 displays – LCD and LED.

The reason for the two displays is because previously in the edit mode, you could not see the kit number on the display. So, the user would have to consciously remember the kit number and make a note before editing. This problem is eliminated by the two displays. Now, with the SPD-20 PRO- the LED display shows the Kit No. and the LCD display is main display which shows all editing parameters, name of the kit etc.

The value button has been ergonomically designed and placed in the centre of the pad, making it easy for both left-handed and right-handed pad players to change their desired value during a performance.

HOW TO ASSIGN INSTRUMENT SOUNDS TO THE SPD-20 PRO?
First, we start by choosing any blank kit.
Assign an instrument to each pad by striking it. When you strike a pad, it gets selected on the display and you can then choose an instrument from the library using the instrument button.
Next, we have to assign the levels. For this, we press the level button.
In level, we need to choose from options such as curved, linear, fixed value etc.

In the curve option, the fixed value is a new feature. Here, you can set a fixed velocity value for an instrument and no matter how soft or loudly the respective pad is struck, the level remains fixed.

Now we need to assign the pitch. For this, we press the pitch button.
We have 3 types of pitch parameters – Coarse Tune, Fine tune and Pedal Bend.
In coarse tune, we can change the pitch half step up or down.
In fine tune, we can adjust the pitch more precisely. To be exact, it can be specified in one-cent units (1/100 of a semitone).
Additionally, the SPD-20 PRO comes with “pitch bend” feature. Using this feature, you can change the pitch by using an FD-8 or FD-9 pedal. The pitch will be transposed to the value set by you in the pitch bend function, when the pedal is pressed. When it is released, the pitch value goes back to 0.

LAYERING
Once you have successfully assigned instrument sounds to all the pads and set the parameters, if you feel like you want to enhance your sound more and add one more layer to your existing sound, you can use the layering function.

Layer type
The SPD-20 PRO allows you to play two instruments (Main and Sub) layered on each pad. You can also switch between two instruments of vary their balance according to your playing dynamics.

To select the layer type:
First, we press the “type” button.
MIX – Once the type has been changed from “Off” to “Mix”, you can hear both layers A and B (A is called main and B is called Sub). Here, both the Main and Sub instrument are layered and played simultaneously.
Before setting any of the other types of layers, first we need to define the “Fade Point”. The Fade point specifies the velocity value at which the Sub instrument (B Layer) begins to be heard.

The layer types that are used after setting the fade point are :
FADE 1– The sub instrument (B layer) is heard only for a pad strike that is stronger than the velocity value specified by the Fade point.

FADE 2 – For pad strikes that are stronger than the fade point, the Sub instrument (B layer) is layered in addition to the Main instrument (A layer) sound.

SWITCH – The main instrument (A layer) sound is heard for pad strikes that are weaker than the fade point, and the sound switches to sub instrument (B layer) sound for pad strikes that are stronger than fade point.

XFADE – This is basically similar to FADE 2, with the difference that pad strikes that are stronger than the fade point decreases the volume of the main instrument (A layer) sound.

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