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lhcaudio@gmail.com wrote:

I’ve seen many people do it this way online. In the drum brain there’s options to turn off local control and set the driver to be compatible with sending MIDI Data making it work properly. I don’t see how this is cutting corners. If you could explain in more detail on this I’d appreciate it.

But also, I’d still like to get to the bottom of why it stopped working. If this was cutting corners would there not have been signs that it’s “failing”? It’s been working great since we first set it up (June last year) and then all of a sudden stopped after not plugging it in for about a month (February 2nd was the last time).

I’ll look into using an interface again, I just didn’t see a point last time I researched this since the drum brain basically took care of that.

Thanks for your quick replies.

Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

MIDI and audio are two different things. Local control only applies to MIDI and you only need to turn that off if you’re using SD3 to trigger the brain so you don’t get double hits. Using the drum brain as an audio interface is what’s cutting corners. And there’s the latency as there’s no way the brain will have the low latency you need for feeding the audio coming from the computer/SD3 combo to FOH for use in a live situation. Just because you saw someone on YouTube do it doesn’t make it a go-to thing. Trust someone who’s been doing this kind of thing for decades

What are you using for getting audio from the computer to the brain? Please don’t tell us you’re using the headphone output from the computer as that’s as low quality as you can get. The impedance and levels will be all wrong.

Understandable. I’m using a usb cable like Roland suggests.

 

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I just gave it a try. No audio from Mac going through the TD 25 module. This makes me think it might be the computer, but last week I took the module off the kit and plugged it into the FOH Mac since it has SD3 installed, and still no luck. So I’m yet again, back to square one.

 

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When the problem first occurred last week, no but I updated the Mac yesterday thinking it might fix the issue. The drum module on the other hand, I have not updated. I’ll look into that.

[lhcaudio@gmail.com]

I’ve seen many people do it this way online. In the drum brain there’s options to turn off local control and set the driver to be compatible with sending MIDI Data making it work properly. I don’t see how this is cutting corners. If you could explain in more detail on this I’d appreciate it.

But also, I’d still like to get to the bottom of why it stopped working. If this was cutting corners would there not have been signs that it’s “failing”? It’s been working great since we first set it up (June last year) and then all of a sudden stopped after not plugging it in for about a month (February 2nd was the last time).

I’ll look into using an interface again, I just didn’t see a point last time I researched this since the drum brain basically took care of that.

Thanks for your quick replies.

Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

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Because sound quality is better through quarter inch cables. I’d have to get an audio interface, and at that point it’s not simplified. Either I have the drum brain as output with the cables connected to it, or have my computer as output with the cables connected to the interface. Thats just an extra unnecessary purchase on my end.

And to the second part of your reply, I do have audio coming through when the output is my computer which is why I never noticed the issue when playing at home because I have my IEM’s connected directly to the computer.

 

Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

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