[ShawnV]

Well if anyone cares, I’m only using one piezo. 100X improvement on the mics. I have an extra soundcard with 8 inputs so I’m not going to worry about this anymore. Piezo is sensitive, yet it’s pretty local depending how it’s setup, so there is not much “bleeding” ha! onto the other ones. If any at all.

[ShawnV]

Can anyone help me?

I posted over on Reaper’s forums too:

http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?p=472203#post472203

I can’t seem to get the sensitivty up on this.

Trigger’s fine, really fast using ProTrig and some piezo’s.

Playing locally on the speakers it’s fine, just when I trigger through Reaper it’s not.

I need to bump the volume, the velocity, and still it’s not great.

Would it be a problem with going through MIDI cable -> USB?

[ShawnV]

There is software for this call ProTrig, works really awesome. It’s another vst plugin.

[ShawnV]

My only problem right now is I need to setup the velocity or something. It’s not very sensitive when triggering EZdrummer.

On the other side, triggering EZdrummer with ProTRIG works amazing. And at that I will create another thread.

But if anyone has any idea how to make my DD65 more sensitive when used with Reaper and EZdrummer (already at the highest in it’s own setting) let me know.

I put the velocity up and that seems to help, within Edrummer. I think that is it as if I turn the volume up really loud on the drum track in reaper, it seems “more sensitive”

I need to fiddle with it more, or my drummer is just gonna stick to cheap dollar store mics shoved into empty coffee cans. Yeah, ProTrig rocks.

[ShawnV]

I think I will buy this:

http://www.centipeak.com/protrig/

If it works with Mics I would assume it should work with a piezo.

I’m looking forward to this, can’t wait to try the demo out when I get home.

[ShawnV]

Sorry, it took a longtime to reply.

I want to be able to pan the click, or the music. So that the click sound of the detection hits are lets say, right channel, and the original in the left.

I don’t know for other people, but this would help me line things up, I think 🙂

[ShawnV]

I bought it. I still have yet to hook it up to the computer though. Pretty neat little thing, not bad for the price.

[ShawnV]

OK, so I had alot of fun this weekend. I worked on a few old songs, and I was able to get something sounding decent.

Now my question would be, for let’s say kick, which is the easiest so far. I am getting double beats, and it sounds weird.

Do I need to make the red bars higher or lower? I can go in and disable them individually, but sometimes there is even 3 beats/notes.

So far I love it, I just needed to give it some time and patience.

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For me, with the kick drum, I was using I think the bell or something high pitched, and fiddled with the volume / mixer to hear better.

Another question would be: Sometimes I get no sound. Esp if I have more then one track in the project. Should I just use one track per project? It does not really matter to me as I’m rendering and converting each instrument to one track in Reaper.

What else…. it rocks. Sometimes EZdrummer though sounds alittle bright or crisp. I guess though after I am done I will mixdown or bounce these tracks and can EQ them separately. Looking forward to getting SD2 though in the future 🙂

[ShawnV]

I forgot to check this out last night. I grabbed a kick drum track, seemed to work really well. I’ll need to go in though and edit out some “double notes”

I will eventually get SD2. It’s really something I want but I cannot afford at the moment. Having you explain you can tune the drums makes me even want it more 🙂

Right now I’m just trying to replace everything I guess. I doubt I will keep anything of the old tracks. Esp for timing problems. What I cannot fix I will try to do like you and replace with a close sample/groove.

I hope to post something this weekend to get some feedback. I think I may start playing again with my old drummer friend. I love his beats and style, and he wrote well with my songs.

Now it will be more off a focus on using and recording the drums with the intent to convert with drum tracker. Should be interesting.

Do you think breaking a song, drum wise, into parts would be easier? I’m not sure about it for the drummer. Thanks for replying, I hope my post is not too confusing 🙂

[ShawnV]

Thank you Scott, I will check that out when I’m at home. I have mostly multi-tracks for the drums so it’s all good.

When you keep the overhead, does it sound strange since you’ve replaced the others? What if you fix a note or beat, won’t it sound “off”?

Thank you for replying, I really appreciate it.

[ShawnV]

I re-did they authorization. I will try to keep my wireless adapter on. I like to try to be secure and save power.

I hope Rogue can explain better maybe the hardware detection, and maybe if on Toontrack’s end if they can see what the hardware change was, so I will know hey, I need to turn this back on etc.

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