Setup! am I doing this right ?

[stickprick]

Hi !

I just received my Megadrum from Dmitri, and started the setup for the Snare Head (rim disabled, dualpad set to no)

at Gain 0 I´m getting a Highlevel of 512-552 and at Gain 5 the Highlevel is 840 so I don´t need a voltage divider !?

now I set Gain to 5, Autolvl to no, and highlevel to 840 and start configuring the Pad according to this Post
viewtopic.php?p=20543#p20543

what is meant by "until false notes start to appear" ?
In MidiLog a correct note appears as 2bars, one for midi on and one for midi off, is that right ?

[dmitri]

Your snare doesn't seem to need a voltage divider.
False notes are when you hit once but you get more then one Note On MIDI message.

[stickprick]

ok, with the settings according to the Link I get false double triggering even at DynLevel 15. Similar to Piezo´s from this Thread
http://www.megadrum.info/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2087

Here´s a Screenshot of my MDM Settings




btw: how do I load the .syx files from Angr77´s Homepage into Megadrum ? MDM only accepts .mds files

[angr77]

If you use the load/save buttons in the pad panel...these files are syx format. Pretty neat when dealing with individual pads.

Angr77

[dmitri]

ok, with the settings according to the Link I get false double triggering even at DynLevel 15.

You get double triggering with DynLevel 15, DynTime 60 and Threshold 80? What kind of a pad is it? With such setting on my Drumtec 14" and Roland PD-125 I would have already lost fast triggering and double triggering being eliminated for long.

[stickprick]

ok, with the settings according to the Link I get false double triggering even at DynLevel 15.

You get double triggering with DynLevel 15, DynTime 60 and Threshold 80? What kind of a pad is it? With such setting on my Drumtec 14" and Roland PD-125 I would have already lost fast triggering and double triggering being eliminated for long.

I set retrigger mask to 2, now i can get dynlvl to 9 with (almost) no false triggering.

It´s a 14" snare from Diamond Electronic Drums with Drumtec Design Meshhead.


@angr77

thanks I´ll try it.
And I´ll send you my Pad Settings too, when I got them right.

[dmitri]

While looking at your MDM screenshot I noticed that your MegaDrum reported incorrect MCU type. I just published a new firmware version which fixes this bug.

[stickprick]

Is this MCU type Bug only optical ? If so I can live with that, and update later


After a bit tweaking I came to these Settings for the Snare Head



Would you say any of these values look strange ?

I compared it to some values from angr77´s database and noticed that my DynLvl is high and DynTime is low.
So I tried to decrease DynLvl while increasing DynTime but that didnt work out well.

Also Threshold is really low but increasing it doesn´t change much. And I didn´t get false triggering in the initial Setup Process, so I was able to set it to 1.

[dmitri]

Is this MCU type Bug only optical ? If so I can live with that, and update later

Yes, it is only optical:)

Would you say any of these values look strange ?

I compared it to some values from angr77´s database and noticed that my DynLvl is high and DynTime is low.
So I tried to decrease DynLvl while increasing DynTime but that didnt work out well.

Also Threshold is really low but increasing it doesn´t change much. And I didn´t get false triggering in the initial Setup Process, so I was able to set it to 1.

Threshold indeed seems very low but if it doesn't cause double triggering or crosstalk then it is perfectly ok.

[stickprick]

I´m currently trying to configure my VH-11 with EZDrummer.
Therefore I put a 20K trimpot between tip and ring of the HHpedal input, as suggested.

Then I loaded the VH-11 pedal syx file from angr77´s page.
When I look at the MIDI Log the pink Hihat Bar is at 126 with trimpot at 0 Ohm. At around 3,30 Kiloohm it starts to decrease, so I set it to 3,30K because that´s the point of the biggest dynamics.
But shouldn´t the Bar go to 127 ? Otherwise I think I won´t be able to achieve a fully open Hihat ?




Furthermore I had a look at the Hihat pedal notes tab in MDM and noticed that in the .syx file from angr77`s page only 2 Notes are entered (Bow closed and Edge closed). But in EZDrummer´s Keymapping are some more Hihat notes specified (like Pedal chick, open 1/2/3, open HH, open max). Which ones do I have to use ?






PS: angr77, here´s my current Diamond Snare .syx file. But it´s only the Head for the moment.