[Boomwallah]

Hi,

I use additional pedals. They are the key to me using the Handsonics as kit drum replacement.

I have an HPD-15 and the HPD-20… so I have 4 inputs. I use a Roland HH pedal (again, from memory, its an FD-7 or something like that) and a Roland kick trigger (can’t remember model but is a kick pedal and small pad combo). I use a second kick trigger (I think from KAT) and the two kick pedals are summed by a function in the pedal (passes through second trigger through the cable) so I can do double bass patterns. Using an additional trigger pad that is more like a tom/snare pad is not useful as you play the Handsonics with hands and fingers, and the snare/tom pads work much better with sticks (FYI, never hit your Handsonics with sticks). In other words, adding the foot pedals (HH and kick) are great, while tom/snare pads not so much, IMHO.

One note, due I think to polarity of the cables, is that non-Roland brand HH pedals seem to not work very well with the Roland Handsonics, however any brand kick trigger probably works fine.

I can’t tell you how immensely fun it is playing  SD3 drum sounds using the Handsonics with HH and kick pedals.
Best of luck and let us know if you get things running to your satisfaction.

Cheers,
Mark

Reply To: How to Use Roland HandSonic HPD-20 with Superior Drummer 3? version: 3.1.7
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[Boomwallah]

Hi,

1. I am travelling and not near my gear or the Mac with SD3 on it, but you can look in the manual on how to assign SOUNDS to a pad in a patch on the HPD-20. When you do that, one of the options is to assign NO SOUND. Do that for every pad (plus D-Beam and external triggers if you’re using them) in the patch so there are no local HPD-20 sounds in the patch. In essence the patch becomes a MIDI note trigger patch.
2. On the HPD-20: Then, set MIDI notes to what you want based on the instructions Roland linked for you. You can choose what MIDI notes you want on what pd by looking at the MIDI note assignment chart (looks like a keyboard) that Toontrack provides for every SDX, EZX and the SD3 program itself. These are PDFs in your Toontrack sound folders or in the SD3 manual. The HPD-20 patch defaults to MIDI channel 10, and that usually works out of the box for SD3. Save the patch.
3. This is a menu setting in SD3. Again, I am not near my gear or Mac with the software to look it up and tell you but it certainly is in the SD3 manual and you can also probably figure it out just by going to the menu item in SD3.

Sorry I can’t tell you specific instructions to walk you through it, but this is all fairly rudimentary parts of the HPD-20 and SD3 and all instructions are available in the manuals or online. Perhaps someone else can give you a walk through if you need it. Best of luck. I get immense joy and musical satisfaction playing SD3 through the HPD-20 and hope you will too!

 

Cheers

Reply To: How to Use Roland HandSonic HPD-20 with Superior Drummer 3? version: 3.1.7
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Thanked by: pacificm

[Boomwallah]

I use both an HPD-15 and an HPD-20. I make a patch on each Handsonic where I make all local sounds to be off, and then assign MIDI notes to each pad, ribbon controller or D-Beam that I want to trigger a given SD3 sound. Make sure that SD3 is receiving the MDI from your Handsonic device(s) in Audio/MIDI settings of SD3. SD3 receives the MIDI and plays the sounds. It works great!

 

Good luck.

Mark

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