Alesis e-drums, DM6, won’t trigger ezdrummer

[danielgcash]

Alesis edrums, DM6, won’t trigger ezdrummer via USB.

I have had the Q25 Alesis USB/midi keyboard controller triggering without any trouble, via USB for months.

I want to add Alesis electronic drums, with the DM6 module

I disconnected Q25 and using the same USB cable, plugged into the DM6 module.
I set the module for USB communication to computer.

The computer (Windows 7 Pro) recognized and installed drivers for the DM6 module, and displayed “device is ready to use”

The drums are producing sounds from the DM6 module,but NOT from ezDrummer2

The ezDrummer screen is displaying the ezDrummer drum kit, but the drums are not visually responding.

The ezDrummer screen and sounds DO work properly from the computer keyboard and computer mouse!

I re-started several times, and I DID go to ezDrummer menu and selected E-Drum brand : Alesis

I went to device manager, and it says that the Q25 AND the DM6 ARE working properly.

Now, when I re-connect the Q25, it does not trigger ezDrummer either!

Help, please!? Thanks so much, Dan

Oh, and if you do have a solution, please, go step by step, if you could? I’m fairly good with computers, but you may just want to assume I know nothing, so that I can proceed step by step. Thanks much to anyone who can help.

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[Jeffrey Huston]

Hi, I just tried with my DM10 kit, it works fine (I usually use BFD3 and use EZD2 with midi files for song writing and it’s song writing capabilities/tools)
You should just have to as you have done select Alesis from the drop down, and in the menu at the top where you have File – Settings – Help, select Settings-Audio Midi setup – then Midi Device and select your device, if it doesn’t show at first hit the Rescan Devices. You should basically be ready to go apart from any fine tuning you may want to do at your module or whatever.

[danielgcash]

Hey, thanks jih.. So, the funny thing is, shortly after I posted that question, I looked on youtube and found that solution.
I had looked in midi setup, but did not see my device yesterday, but today, I did.

Thanks so much, you were right on the money.

**I do have another question**

Where do I go to create an ezdrummer crash sound from the ezdrummer ride cymbal?

Meaning, of course, how do I re-assign the ezdrummer ride to trigger ezdrummer’s crash sounds instead?

(Alesis DM6 only has one crash and one ride trigger, so I want to go with two crashes for initial tracking, and over dub the ride later,
since I generally don’t use ride that much anyway)

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