Yamaha DD-9 Owner's Manual - Style

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The DD-9 features a large variety of Auto

Rhythm Styles including variations of basic 8

and 16 beat patterns as well as more exotic

styles such as Son Afro and Calypso. You can

play along with any of the DD-9 Auto Rhythm

Styles. (See the front panel for the Style list.)

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To select and play back an Auto

Rhythm Style:

1. Press the STYLE button repeatedly or turn

the SELECTOR dial until the desired Auto

Rhythm Style number appears in the LED

display.

The Auto Rhythm Style numbers only cycle

forward when you press the STYLE button.

The SELECTOR dial turns either clockwise

or counterclockwise and the Auto Rhythm

Style numbers cycle up or down accordingly.

2. Press the START/STOP button.

The currently selected Auto Rhythm Style

plays back.

To stop playback, press the START/STOP

button again.

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You can select another Auto Rhythm Style or

enter the Tempo, Percussion Set or Sound Effect

Set mode while any Auto Rhythm Style is playing.

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Auto Rhythm Style “Dance 1” is automatically

selected and “00” appears in the LED

display when the power is turned on.

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Auto Rhythm Style “00” is selected and appears

automatically in the LED display when the

demonstration song is stopped.

The DD-9 contains a total of 55 high quality

voices that can be assigned to each of the four

percussion pads. The Custom Set pad assign-

ment allows any combinations of the 55 voices.

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To assign a voice to a percussion

pad:

1. Strike the percussion pad to which you want to

assign a voice.

2. Press and hold either the 

 or 

 PAD

ASSIGN button.

The currently assigned voice number is

shown in the LED display.

3. While holding either PAD ASSIGN button,

strike the same percussion pad repeatedly or

turn the SELECTOR dial until the desired

voice number appears in the LED display.

(See the supplied Voice List or page 33.)

Voice numbers cycle from 00 to 54 to 00

when striking the percussion pad.

The 

 PAD ASSIGN button decreases the

voice number and the 

 PAD ASSIGN

button increases the voice number.

4. Release the 

 or 

 PAD ASSIGN button.

A new voice is now assigned to the desig-

nated percussion pad.

5. Repeat steps 1 to 4 for any or all of the other

DD-9 percussion pads to set the four percus-

sion pads to the desired voice(s).

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The DD-9 always returns to Custom Set P0 when

assigning voices to a percussion pad.

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All pad assignment changes are memorized in

Custom Set P0 until the power is turned off.

57-60   FUNK

61-65   SWING

66-67   JAZZ BALLAD

66-71   FUSION

72-73   BOSSA NOVA

74-76   SAMBA

77-79   SALSA 

80-81   REGGAE    

82        CALYPSO    

83        MERENGUE

84        BEGUINE

85        RHUMBA 

86        MAMBO

87        CHA-CHA

88        TANGO

89-90   AFRICAN

91        COUNTRY

92-93   MARCH

94-96   WALTZ

97-99   METRONOME

1

2

3

4

ASSIGN

OFF

ECHO

FLAM

ROLL

    SE

SELECT

PAD

  TAP 

START

STYLE

PERC.

SET

TEMPO DEMO

START/

STOP

AUTO

ROLL

STYLE LIST

00-06   DANCE

06-09   HOUSE

10-13   HIP HOP    

14-16   RAP

17-19   DISCO

20-23   POP ROCK

24-26   HARD ROCK  

27-28   HEAVY METAL

29-31   CONTEMPO. ROCK

32-35   8 BEAT

36-39   16 BEAT

40-43   ROCK SHUFFLE

44        PROGRE, ROCK  

45        PUNK ROCK

46        TECHNO ROCK      

47        LATIN ROCK     

48-50   ROCK'N'ROLL

51-53   RHYTHM & BLUES      

54-56   SOUL

SELECTOR 

VOLUME

SOUND EFFECT PADS

POWER

OFF   

ON

STYLE/PERC.SET/TEMPO

BEAT

PAD  ASSIGN

Style

Pad Assign

START/

STOP

OR

 STYLE

OR