Roland V51 MIDI map

[jblaisdell]

I’m going to be getting a TD516 kit to use exclusively with SD3. I assume that the V71 edrum preset will be the same for the new V51. Anyone got and tried yet?

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.4.1
Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

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[John]

Hi,

not a user but from what I can read on Roland’s info pages, “The V51 module features the same internal engine as the V71, giving you the identical sounds and expansion path in an efficient hardware design”, which means the V71 MIDI Preset should work pretty much out of the box, so to speak.
If you tweak anything, be sure to save it as your own user preset.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[Joakim Lundberg]

I have. V51 with a VAD516 kit and Im using the V71 presets which seems to work.

Caveats:

The new V71 kits have positional sensing on the toms which is not supported by the V51 series kits, but center and rim hit works of course

All the V71 kits have the 3 digital pads which are not available for the cheapest of the V51 kits and this would have a significant impact. The module are sending positional sensing values for hi-hat, rise and snare which is supported by some Superior kits. In fact I think Toontrack missed to add a few articulations actually, like shallow rimshots. Check this post on how to set this up https://www.vdrums.com/forum/advanced/vst-samples/1292072-the-jazz-sessions-sdx/page1

The VAD516 has the updated digitial snare launched with the V71 but the TD516 still has the old one which means I haven’t tested that, but I think it’s mostly the throw-off that’s different so that should work.

You may also need to tweak thresholds, but that would be true even between the TD and VAD lines as they use slighlty different triggers. This would probably be the case anyway,

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.4.2
Operating system: Windows 11

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