alright so where to begin? this is my set up that hasn’t changed aside from the Roland module since 2020.
2018 Macbook Pro
Studio One 3.5.6.46910 OSX x64 (Built March 20th 2018)
M-Audio Uno Midi to USB cable
SD3 Death and Darkness
I used all of this with my TD30 and have never had issues plugging and playing. I only ever needed to adjust the Midi mapping once and after that it was completely good to go. samples were triggered properly and written accurately every time at any speed/tempo. I upgraded from the TD30 to a Roland TD50x about a year and a half ago or so and then recently upgraded to the 71 probably around November or December of 2024. since trying to use the 50 and now the V71 all that time ago, I have not been able to get the Midi writing or triggering to function properly. the issues I have now are the same things that started with the 50 that I have never been able to resolve or find any info about online.
Basically, when the kit is being played and or recorded, it drops hits on the ride cymbal (sometimes) and kicks at random (virtually all the time at most tempos) . it almost seems like its overloaded or something but it can not handle doing blast beats with the ride/hi hat, snare, and kicks going at the same time. on top of this, it began writing/recording midi in a way I had never encountered before where it now has extremely long sustains on some of the drums that were hit. this is an intermittent thing from drum to drum but it always happens with a number of pads at a time. it doesn’t actually hold the note though, just writes it that way. I have multiple snare rim samples across the piano roll being written when only playing the center of the drum which kind of seems like cross talk as well as random toms being written in when i do fills. The velocities also seem to be a little inaccurate at certain times with some drums but again, could be pad settings or “cross talk” since those notes are always super low velocity.
I JUST updated the firmware on my V71 for the first time and added the drivers for it to my computer which has fixed nothing with the situation. I have heard that USB 3.0 has been an issue with the TD50 and things like this but I have no idea how to bypass using that since the USB-C inputs on my computer are all thunderbolt 3.0.
I hope someone has dealt with this because it has been driving me crazy trying to look for any info between here and the Roland support pages.
Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.4.0Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)
