Pad (one for each drum sound). Press to audition the drum sound assigned to the Pad, or to select a sound for adjusting pan. This adjusts the Pan (the position in the stereo image) for the individual drums. The setting is applied to the currently selected drum , indicated by a lit yellow LED over the Pad button.
The LM-9 is a simple drum machine. It has the following properties:
• LM-9 is polyphonic with up to 9 voices.
You don’t need to select a MIDI channel to direct MIDI to LM-9.
• LM-9 responds to the following MIDI messages:
MIDI Note On/Off (velocity governs volume).
Furthermore, all parameters can be automated as described in the Getting into the Details chapter “VST Instruments”.
This sets the global velocity sensitivity for LM-9. The higher the value, the more sensitive LM-9 will be to incoming velocity data. If set to “0”, the sounds will play back with a fixed velocity value.
Volume sliders The volume sliders are used to adjust the volume for each individual drum sound. PadPanorama The Pads are used for two things: To audition the individual drum sounds, and to select a sound for adjusting pan.
This is used to position an individual sound in the stereo image. The setting applies to the currently selected sound, indicated by a lit yellow LED over the Pad button.LM-9 comes with two sets of drum sounds: “Acoustic” and “Beat Box”. Acoustic features samples of an acoustic drum kit and Beat Box features classic analog drum machine sounds. The table below shows how the drum sounds are assigned to note values on your MIDI keyboard. The mapping is GM compatible:
Drum sound Note value
Bass C1
Snare D1
Hi-Hat F#1
O-Hi-Hat A#1
Tom 1 D2
Tom 2 B1
Tom 3 A1
Crash C#2
Ride D#2