Roland TD-11 freezes (or wont send sound) with Superior 2.0 (SOLO)

[cosmo798]

Hello.

I’ve been searching this forum and all over the web, but wont seem to find anyone with a similar problem like mine.

I recently bought a new Roland TD11 and using Superior Drummer 2.0 with Solo (MAC). I’m getting everything to work okey; the latency (I think…), sound, triggering and more…
BUT….

After about 10-30 secounds (it differs) my TD11 does not send out any triggers (or sound or what you want to call it, “signals”) to Superior drummer and I have to restart my TD11 and Superior for it to work again, for 10-30 sec…. The module does respond to me changing settings (like to change to a default kit) but don’t even send out sounds from the default kits.
I don’t have a clue why, please, someone, HELP! 😉

Specs:
Roland TD-11kv
Macbook Pro Retina mid 2012 (OSX El Capitan 10.11.1)
Superior Drummer 2.0 + SOLO

Connection:
TD11 — (USB) —> Macbook Pro Retina
Headphones plugged into the TD11

Superior 2.0 Setup:
MIDI Device: TD11
Audio Device: TD11
Latency: Tested all from 64, 128, 256

TD11:
Custom kit without any sounds

OSX Setup (won’t get any sound if I change these I think):
Sound out: Built-in-Speekers
Sound in: Built-in-Microphone

Thanks in advance

/Cosmo, the sweedish rookie 😉

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[John]

I guess the first thing to check is the driver and firmware but I’m unsure if it really should need a driver for OSX

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[cosmo798]

@John said:

I guess the first thing to check is the driver and firmware but I’m unsure if it really should need a driver for OSX

Yeah forgot to write that, I downloaded this one:
TD-11 Driver Version 1.0.1 for Mac OS 10.10

I’ll need to check if my TD-11 is up-to-date, but according to Rolands version history this is not a common bug so it’s probably not that.

EDIT: I was up-to-date, version 1.15 of the TD11 which is the newest according to Rolands homepage.

[Juicy]

It could be your USB cable. Best to use a Roland UM One and the signal( not audio) is MIDI via USB
All should be fine but you say Headphones plugged into TD11, that is odd because the “sound” once triggered via Midi/usb into
SD2 are only coming from your computer no need to change presets or monitor TD11 at that point.
What version of SD2 . Is it up to date.?

[cosmo798]

@juicy said:

It could be your USB cable. Best to use a Roland UM One and the signal( not audio) is MIDI via USB
All should be fine but you say Headphones plugged into TD11, that is odd because the “sound” once triggered via Midi/usb into
SD2 are only coming from your computer no need to change presets or monitor TD11 at that point.
What version of SD2 . Is it up to date.?

Okey, I’ll try to buy a new USB cable to try, sounds weird that my USB cable would make my TD-11 to not send out any signals.
From what I’ve read the TD-11 acts as an audio-interface and therefor I should plug my headphones into the module instead of in my Mac. You say this is not correct?
I’m currently on a trip so can’t see what version but it should be up to date, it did an update two weeks ago when I installed everything.

Any other suggestions?

[Juicy]

Dear Cosmo.
I have been using Midi since Dx7’s Came out and the first Sequencers were born.Thats 30 years ago and i was only 17 years old.
A TD11 as far as Audio goes is an interface only unto itself and its internal sound.
Lets break it down
You play your kit
the pads generate a trigger signal
the module says hello to those signals and then…..
the modules “sound engine” via presets on the module will produce sound to whatever Roland have decided for each preset
This can be monitored through headphones or output to speakers.
Kinda the end of the story except for
Triggering “from” the TD11 module “to” a VST/AU computer.
In this case SD2 or EZD2 becomes the “sound engine” and from that point the paradigm shifts.
From then on the kit up & down buttons have no affect and audio out of the TD11 are NOT important or needed.
You can tweak some pad settings , sensitivity settings but thats about it, the TD11 is not a midi controller as such.
The sounds are now all way better and more real and are solely in the computer environment.
Now you mix, change, edit drum sounds on the “Sound Engine” in the computer that are responding to your playing on the kit.
The only part the TD11 now has is to convert and send the “Trigger Signals” as “Midi coming from your Pads .
You monitor the sound of EZD2 or SD2 usually via a good Interface/Sound Card or Audio outs of the computer.
Basically End of story.
I have a feeling you want to Jam along with stuff in your “Mix in “of the TD11 and thats now a bit of a problem.
You can use iTunes on your comp and EZD2 at the same time however.

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