Mapping MIDI notes in EZ Drummer to work with Simmons SD600 Kit

[John Reeves]

I recently bought EZD2 for my MacBook pro to work with my Simmons SD600 electronic kit and it did recognize the kit in settings, but when it mapped the sounds – the 1/2 open high hat now triggers the Ride cymbal and the rim shot on the snare cannot be changed as far as I can tell?  Any help with these would be greatly appreciated.  thanks.

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

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[John]

Hi,

you can’t re-map anything yourself in EZdrummer 2, that’s a feature in the bigger brother Superior Drummer 3.
Did you try the Generic E-drums MIDI Map? Or any of the other ones?

I am not familiar with the Simmons and its note mapping.

BR,
John

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[theleavitt]

I experienced the same exact issue. The work around I found for this is to change the Midi Mapping within the SD600 module. The instructions are on page 24 of the SD 600 manual. https://simmonsdrums.net/app/uploads/manuals/Simmons_SD600_Manual.pdf

Basically you click on the utilities button and then click the edit button until the midi note screen pops up. Then you press the “+” &”-” buttons to map the midi note that you want for the corresponding sound.  I just cycled thru the MIDI notes until I found ones that seemed to correlate to EZ drummer well enough. The hihat settings that worked for me were below as follows

pedal click:HH_P = midi note 44,

closed: HH_C = midi note 61,

half open: HH_H = midi note 46,

fully open:HH_O=midi note 121

These midi notes gave me what I found to be the best results.

hope that helps.

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: Windows 10

• This post was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by theleavitt.
  Reason: the pdf linked is on page 24 but my physical manaul is page 26

[John Reeves]

I did try all of the other MIDI map options, and the hi-hat still triggers Ride Cymbal when 1/2 open and I have no way of switching out rimshot for side-stick which is what I need.  **It would have been nice to know before I spent $180 on your program that it wouldn’t work with my e-drum kit.  I find that very bad business as to not quantify what will and will not work with different e-drums configurations.  **I do not think I should have to spend over $300 MORE to move up to Superior Drummer 3 – just to get these 2 triggers to work with my e-drum kit.  ***How do I go about getting a refund of the $180 for EZD2 that does NOT work with MY equipment?  Thanks.

EZdrummer version: 2.0.2
Operating system: macOS High Sierra (10.13)

[John Reeves]

Thank you for the reply and sorry it’s taken so long for me to respond, I’ve been having computer issues as well.

I understand and will work on your steps for the Hi-Hat settings, but honestly the one that I would really like to correct is the rimshot to a sidestick as I need the sidestick more than the rimshot in my case.  **Do you know of any good midi settings for these type of triggers in the SD600 module?  I would appreciate any help I can get at this point.  I will be using my kit for 2 live performances next month and would like to get these corrected before then.  thank you!!

EZdrummer version: 2.1.2
Operating system: macOS Sierra (10.12)

[John Reeves]

Leveitt:

I was able to change the mapping through SD600 module for the Cross-Stick, as I can now trigger the cross-stick instead of the rimshot.

However, when I tried to remap the HH section, I was not as successful.  I spent about 2 hrs trying different settings and finally figured out by trial and error that I do not eve show a HH_H section to change the voice to?  I have all the others you listed, but NOT the  HH_H for the 1/2 open hi hat?

As a result, I’m still triggering the Ride cymbal sound for the 1/2 open HH and I have NO idea why I cannot get this to come up on my module screen to change?  *Any ideas for how I can change the Open HH settings without seeing the HH_H section?

Thank you!

EZdrummer version: 2.1.3
Operating system: macOS Sierra (10.12)

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