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Re: Interested in MegaDRUM?

Postby Maylord.war » Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:53 pm

Hi everson

Do you have a crosstalk on dual zone pad with your triggering sistem ( similar to cakepan) ?


If you can please make a video to show the sensivity and the separation beetween the 2 or more zone.

Thanks a lot! :)
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Re: Interested in MegaDRUM?

Postby everson » Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:54 am

Good you asked that. The system I used is pretty good, but not 100% perfect.
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Since I`m waiting for new cymbals*, I decided to devote some tom rims to cymbal sounds and occasionally get cymbal sounds when I hit tom heads hard. I`m pretty sure I can fix that in MD settings, but I`ll probably switch to a better head piezo mounting system ...
That way I`ll get bullet proof pad triggering!

As for video, sure, I`ll make one. As well as some new covers/solos. Stay tuned ;)

* Triggera, the company I ordered my kick pedal trigger from, will soon be releasing a 15" ride cymbal as well as some other electronic cymbals and they`ll send me some prototypes to test them on MD :)
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Re: Interested in MegaDRUM?

Postby everson » Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:39 am

OK, here`s snare: http://youtu.be/c2ThQeKx7fI
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Re: Interested in MegaDRUM?

Postby Maylord.war » Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:47 am

I'm very curious to see the ride cymbals of TRIGGERA, report your impression of your test .


Which sampler/sound library you using in the video? Have your tryed to raise the crosstalk level up to 7 ?

Thanks :)
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Re: Interested in MegaDRUM?

Postby everson » Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:12 pm

Sure. I`ll post my impressions on triggera cymbals, both here and on vdrums.com

Superior Drummer, Metal Foundry, SDFX kit preset.

Xtalk, you mean for both head and rim?
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Re: Interested in MegaDRUM?

Postby Maylord.war » Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:46 pm

Thanks a lot for your reply

I think the crosstalk suppression work in only one direction,if you hit the head and have a rim false notes you must increase the xtalk level on the Rim channel. Instead if you hit the Rim and have a Head false notes you need to raise the xtalk level on the Head channel.

Xtalk Group is another function for delete the noise/disturb from piezo but onestly i don't know how it works, it is better to wait Dmitri for more detail of this function.

If the crosstalk persist try to isolate the plastic cylinder that you used from the bottom surface :)
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Re: Interested in MegaDRUM?

Postby dmitri » Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:13 pm

Crosstalk suppression has nothing to do with separation of head/rim zones in dual zone piezo/piezo pads. See DualMidPoint in http://www.megadrum.info/content/pads-settings
Of course, it implies that DualHead on the Head is set to Yes and Type on the Rim is set to Piezo.
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Re: Interested in MegaDRUM?

Postby Maylord.war » Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:59 pm

Thanks Dmitri for your speech, well the suppression of crosstalk works only for isolate the false triggering signal from other pads?

Can only suppress the triggering of physical (vibration) or electrical noise?

Thanks
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Re: Interested in MegaDRUM?

Postby dmitri » Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:05 pm

Maylord.war wrote:Thanks Dmitri for your speech, well the suppression of crosstalk works only for isolate the false triggering signal from other pads?

XTalk suppression is for for crosstalk suppression between separate physical pads/cymbals.

Can only suppress the triggering of physical (vibration) or electrical noise?

MegaDrum gets all information in electrical form - be it from vibration or from electromagnetic interference - so it suppresses both.
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Re: Interested in MegaDRUM?

Postby everson » Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:30 am

Yes, that`s why I asked if Maylord meant changing xtalk for both head and rim.
As I said, I`m pretty sure head/rim "cross false triggering" could be fixed in MD, but I want to do it via hardware, in pads. Just because I think I have a great solution for perfect triggering.
Anyway, it performs very good even without any changes ...

BTW, the pic above is before I added 2 100k trimpots (one for head, one for rim) . I also changed the wiring (was roland style).
I'll probably remove trimpots from pads, just because I hate the wiring mess, and put 10k resistors instead (I think 10k will be enough).
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