Drum-hit sounds different to mouse-click sounds

[Langdrum]

I apologise in advance for my ignorance and terminology – I am completely new to all of this and have to admit I’m out of my depth. I hope that with time I will learn what I am doing.

I am a drummer and have set up my drum kit with mesh heads and Roland Triggers.

I have them connected to a Roland TD-6V Drum Module and I have my drum module connected via a MIDI cable to a Behringer UMC404 Interface.

I have connected this interface via USB to my laptop. On my laptop I have purchased EZ Drummer 2 and have installed Reaper.

I have a pair of Shure in-ear monitors plugged into the headphone jack on my interface using a 3.5 to 6.35 adaptor.

I have installed the drivers, and have reached a stage where the DAW can recognise EZ Drummer successfully.

When I physicaly hit one of my drums, the corresponding drum on EZ Drummer lights up and creates a sound in my ears; at the same time on Reaper it registers and the small volume display (the little rectangular jumpy sound thingy that moves up and down depending on how loud the drum is being hit) moves.

Now on EZ Drummer I understand that there is a small upside down triangle on each of the drums which brings a drop-down menu that enables you to change the sound of the drum. When I click on any of these sounds I can hear that they are all different. However – no matter what drum sound I change it to, the sound I hear when I hit the actual drum with my drum stick has not changed.

So essentially I can hear all of the different drum sounds when I click on them with my mouse, but no matter which I select, when I actually hit the drums they haven’t changed and they sound the same. I tried recording some drums through Reaper on the off-chance that when I listened to the recording it sounded like the mouse-clicks, but to no avail; it still sounded the same.

The sound when I hit the drums with my stick is also a lot quieter and less sharp than when I click the drum with my mouse. I tried hitting the drums really hard but it still didn’t make much difference, and the sound of the drum certainly still hadn’t changed to the sound selected on EZ Drummer.

I have watched a number of videos on YouTube and read a number of tutorials/posts and every single thing I see says that you simply click on the different drum sound and it will change – to reiterate, it does when I click on it but then when I physically hit the drum the sound hasn’t changed.

Sorry for the essay, I wanted to give as much info as possible. Any help would be appreciated. I’m sure the solution is something simple but sometimes things are only simple when you already know how they work.

Thank you very much for any help/ advice.

EZdrummer version: 2.0.2
Operating system: Windows 10

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[Shootie]

Landrum, firstly you should update EZD2. 2.0.2 is old and may have bugs.

Your first issue: When you change an instrument in EZD2, your drumkit still plays the same sound before the change? Hopefully updating EZD2 will fix this. When you use EZD2 in standalone mode, not in Reaper, do you have the same problems?

Your second issue: You hit the drum pad and the dynamics/velocity are not the same as when you audition the sound directly from EZD2? Have you gone into the Roland head unit and adjusted settings such as Sensitivity?

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[Langdrum]

Both of these solutions worked! Thank you so much.

Changing the sensitivity on the actual drum trigger module made a huge difference. I hadn’t realised changing that would affect how it sounds on EZD2 seeing as changing the drum pad sounds themselves does nothing when it’s connected to EZD2.

Sorry if these problems were extremely basic – I appreciate you helping out a new starter!

[Shootie]

Great to hear!

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