LangdrumGood morning,
I have an acoustic drum kit with the drums triggered and microphones for the cymbals, previously I have had everything working fine as I was not triggering my bass drum pedals.
I recently bought triggers for my pedals as I was receiving noise complaints about the loudness of the bass drum and I figured triggering would be a good solution.
My trigger module – Roland TD-6V – has only one input labelled “Bass”. In order to get both bass drums working on the module, I tried plugging a splitter cable into the input labelled “Bass” but it only recognised one of the pedals.
In order to get both bass drums to be recognised, I have plugged the splitter into the input “Tom 2/3”, changed one of the inputs to “Rim” and then changed the instrument on the module to a bass drum. I then plugged the Tom cable into the “Bass” input and changed that instrument on the module to a tom sound.
This all works perfectly fine when I listen on my module but when I then go into Reaper and EZDrummer 2, the sounds have not been changed and it thinks I am playing a Tom when I hit my bass drum, and vice versa.
I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to change this within Ezdrummer 2 but have found no solution. After looking through this forum it seems it might not be possible within Ezdrummer 2? Could somebody confirm this is the case?
How do other drummers set up double bass using a trigger module and Ezdrummer 2? I know it is possible as I know some drummers on youtube use Ezdrummer 2 with double bass but perhaps it is only possible with a different module that has more than one bass drum input?
Any help would be appreciated as I have tried doing my own research on this and am now at a loss.
Many thanks.
Gear:
Triggers – Precision Kicks for bass drum pedals, Roland RT-30 for other drums.
Roland TD-6V Trigger Module
Behringer UMC404HD Audio Interface
Reaper
EZDrummer 2 – 64bit
ShootieThe confirmation you want… EZ will only receive what you send it, not manipulate it. If your module is not capable of sending the correct midi note, you are out of luck. Sounds from your module are irrelevant at this point, it’s all about the midi notes.
Here is a hypothesis because I don’t have your setup. Your splitter didn’t work on the kick input, yet it does on another part of your kit with tom 2/3? I will guess your kick triggers are mono/unbalanced?, get a mono/unbalanced splitter. Are your kick triggers Stereo/Balanced, get that type of splitter. This is just a guess, but py attention to the specific ends of your trigger cables, whether they are balanced or not is a big deal when incorporating workarounds.
“How do other drummers set up double bass using a trigger module and Ezdrummer 2? I know it is possible as I know some drummers on youtube use Ezdrummer 2 with double bass but perhaps it is only possible with a different module that has more than one bass drum input?”
They have one single trigger and use a double bass drum pedal. I guess more elaborate drummers would use two separate triggers, I don’t think it’s common.
Hope that helps, good luck.
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Thanked by: LangdrumLangdrumThank you for your extremely helpful reply – I will start doing some research into Mono/Unbalanced & Stereo/Balanced!
MintberryCrunchDouble Bassdrum Sound (in order to have alternating Kick sounds A and B) + kick engine toggle (switch between single Kick sound A and alternating Kick sounds A/B while playing) included: LINK 🙂
LangdrumThank you for your reply – I have joined the forum which looks very helpful!
What exactly is “Double Bassdrum Sound”? Is it an add-on for ezdrummer? I have searched and can’t find anything with this name specifically including on the FB page.
MintberryCrunchThank you for your reply – I have joined the forum which looks very helpful! What exactly is “Double Bassdrum Sound”? Is it an add-on for ezdrummer? I have searched and can’t find anything with this name specifically including on the FB page.
“Double Bassdrum Sound” is a setup with two slightly different kick sounds in order to sound authentically and not kind of machine gunning. Works with any EZX (/SDX) so it needn’t be a Metal one with two onboard kicks.
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Thanked by: LangdrumLangdrumThe confirmation you want… EZ will only receive what you send it, not manipulate it. If your module is not capable of sending the correct midi note, you are out of luck. Sounds from your module are irrelevant at this point, it’s all about the midi notes.
Here is a hypothesis because I don’t have your setup. Your splitter didn’t work on the kick input, yet it does on another part of your kit with tom 2/3? I will guess your kick triggers are mono/unbalanced?, get a mono/unbalanced splitter. Are your kick triggers Stereo/Balanced, get that type of splitter. This is just a guess, but py attention to the specific ends of your trigger cables, whether they are balanced or not is a big deal when incorporating workarounds.
“How do other drummers set up double bass using a trigger module and Ezdrummer 2? I know it is possible as I know some drummers on youtube use Ezdrummer 2 with double bass but perhaps it is only possible with a different module that has more than one bass drum input?”
They have one single trigger and use a double bass drum pedal. I guess more elaborate drummers would use two separate triggers, I don’t think it’s common.
Hope that helps, good luck.
- This post was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by Shootie.
This actually worked! I bought a mono – mono splitter cable and now both bass drum sounds come through.
Can’t believe it all came down to the type of cable – thank you again 🙂
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