Manual!!!

[flavios]

Hello!!

I build a KIT from Synthex (great job Synthex)!!
It is working, i think

Now i have so many questions....

There is any manual, like, step by step???

I don´t know how to begin with the "software" part in the computer!!!

What do i need to do???

can some one give me some help...

best regards

flavio silva

[Beamtreetaker]

Hi,

as this is not a Megadrum specific question, I guess you'll find 100's of tutorials in the net.
You need to
- have a host application (like cubase, reaper, ..)
- have some kind of instrument / sampler inside this host (e.g. vst instruments like battery, ezdrummer, bfd, ..)
- tell the host application to pass the midi input (=whats coming from megadrum) to this instrument

Voilà, that's it.
I hope this answers your question, roughly.

Its basically the same as connecting a midi keyboard to your computer..

[flavios]

First of all, thanks a lot dimitri by your great job!!!

Now, Beamtreetaker:

I installed cubase and the addictive drums...
but i have two problems

1- How i map the megadrum to the addictive drums with cubase??
2- I have a delay in about half a second in addictive drums, i believe that is my computer problem. How much is the delay time normally???


B.R.

flavios

[Beamtreetaker]

1- How i map the megadrum to the addictive drums with cubase??

Just map each of Megadrum's channels to an AD sound. You can find the AD notes here http://www.xlnaudio.com/UserFiles/xlnaudio/File/addictive-drums-keymap.pdf.

2- I have a delay in about half a second in addictive drums, i believe that is my computer problem. How much is the delay time normally???
flavios

Good delay (better word: latency) is <= ~8ms, thus nearly unhearable. You can achieve this by choosing the ASIO driver mode in your host application (cubase). If your soundcard does not offer ASIO drivers your last chance could be trying Asio4All (http://www.asio4all.com/).

Have fun!

[flavios]

which sound card do you recommend?

[gastric]

You should check http://www.gearslutz.com/board/ for hardware recommendations. Or even the http://www.vdrums.com/forum/ forums. Likely any name brand device designed for pro audio would work as it would have native ASIO drivers.

[Beamtreetaker]

If you want to go cheap you can get an old Soundblaster Live! of eBay for <10$ and use these tweaked drivers :http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/ (incl. ASIO support).
This is (in my opinion) a perfect budget soundcard for low latency operation if you don't need high end A/D converters (for audio recording).

[elrules]

First of all. Go the cheap way. First try installing ASIO4all drivers and select them in cubase config. You can reduce delay decreasing buffer size. (By default it is set to 512 samples, I can get it to 128 samples with my onboard soundcard and latency is not audible at all )