MAIN FEATURES OF THE DR-660
The DR-660 contains a 16 bit PCM sound source. The 255 high-quality sounds allow you to play virtually any type of music, from Popular and Rock to Jazz, Latin and Rap.
The DR-660 also contains 7 pre-programmed Drum Kits (a collection of percussion sounds) and allows you to create 32 Kits of your own. One Drum Kit consist of 55 sounds. So it can create 1760 (55 X 32) User's sound.
The unit features 16 'velocity - sensitive' Key Pads which accurately respond to your touch. Each Key Pad also responds to 'aftertouch'. By varying the pressure on the Key Pad after it has been played, you can control the volume of the Roll.
Two on - board digital effects are available; Reverb and Chorus. The depth of the Reverb and Chorus effects can be set independently of each Key Pad.
In addition to the 100 Preset Rythm Patterns found on - board, you can create and store 150 Rhythm Patterns of your own.
By combining Rhythm Patterns (250 maximum), you can make a Song. A maximum of 100 such Songs can be played, in a predetermined sequence, using the Song Chain function.
The familiar 'transport controls' (START, STOP, REC, etc.) of the DR-660 make it as easy to use as a tape recorder.
Using the Pad Bank Layer functions, an even wider variety of sounds is possible. Not only can sounds be layered (combined), Setting the Velocity Sense Curve to Pad Bank A and B in reverse, two different sounds can be played independently from the same Key Pad depending on how hard you strike the Pad.
Using the Realtime Pattern Change function, you can change Rhythm Patterns during play. This function allows you to use the DR-660 as a 'preset' rhythm machine.
MIDI IN / OUT socket permit synchronization with external sound modules, sequencers, or drum machines, and save the performance data to the sequencers.
Specified sounds can be assigned to the two INDIVIDUAL outputs - one to each output. These sounds can then be processed an mixed independently of the others.