Electronic percussion instrument

A method of operating an electronic percussion instrument which generates, in accordance with a trigger signal output from at least one pad source, a musical performance tone of a tone color assigned to the at least one pad source, the method comprising:

• manually selecting a drum kit from among a plurality of drum kits, each drum kit including pad setting data for setting the tone color assigned to the at least one pad source;
• and
• in response to manually selecting the drum kit, automatically, electronically setting a sensitivity of the trigger signal, wherein automatically setting the sensitivity of the trigger signal includes automatically setting data indicative of a gain which amplifies a level of the trigger signal.

A method of operating an electronic percussion instrument which generates, in accordance with a plurality of trigger signals output from a plurality of pad sources, respectively, musical performance tones of tone colors assigned to the plurality of pad sources respectively, the method comprising:

• manually selecting a drum kit from among a plurality of drum kits, each drum kit including a plurality of pad setting data for setting the tone colors assigned to the respective plurality of pad sources;
• and
• in response to manually selecting the drum kit, automatically, electronically setting sensitivities of the plurality of trigger signals, wherein automatically electronically setting the sensitivities of the plurality of trigger signals includes automatically setting data indicative of gains which amplify levels of the plurality of trigger signals.