DrumStation guide
Novation DrumStation
Outputs
If you're wondering why your DrumStation is being steadfastly silent, and you've set up your patch to send all its instruments to the same individual output, here's why you can't hear anything: it appears to mix together the sum of all the instruments, meaning the more instruments you send to any given output, the quieter each one will be. If you send every single instrument to the same individual output, each one is so quiet that it's inaudible above the background noise.
So if you'd like to record each instrument one at a time, it's better to use the main stereo outputs (which don't appear to have this problem), and pan everything to one side to maximise the signal-to-noise ratio.
Which brings me to...
Patches
This DrumStation patch is a derivative of the preset "Classic TR-808 V1", with the distortion turned off and everything panned hard left. You can use it for simple mono output.
You can import the SysEx data into the DrumStation, overwriting one of your existing user-editable patches. First, press SELECT a few times to select program mode; then type in the number of the patch you want to overwrite (at least 25, depending on which version you have); then move the write switch to enable, and send the above SysEx file. Remember to switch it back to protect again afterwards.
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