Ibanman555 ekit & MegaDrum

[ibanman555]

Hey everyone,

I figured I would throw together a quick video of the almost completed MegaKit My brother was supposed to come by and play for me, since he is way better than I am, but alas, he failed me again... So I figured I would just futz around instead!

Coming together very nicely and really looking forward to using this exclusively for recording purposes for myself and others! Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaH_2tsIRuc

[angr77]

A very nice kit!!! The snare...me like!! Very good sound in SD2!!

This works!!

Best Regards

Anders

[ibanman555]

Thanks Anders! I'm very happy with how this all is turning out! MegaDrum ROCKS!! I love this thing! And special thanks to you for helping me get going!

[Bean]

I love your setup, lot’s of tom’s and cymbal’s. sounds like you got everything configured really tight on performance!

- Bean

[ibanman555]

I love your setup, lot’s of tom’s and cymbal’s. sounds like you got everything configured really tight on performance!

- Bean

Thanks alot Bean! I'm a big fan of "Go Big Or Go Home!" hahaha! I am almost completely satisfied with all the settings, and I will be posting them for future members of Megadrum with similar pads and cymbals, should really help their setup process!

I ALSO WANT TO GIVE A BIG THANK YOU TO DMITRI, HUGE SUPPORT! YOU ARE TRULY APPRECIATED!

[ibanman555]

Hey Everyone, here is another video of the kit, a little more fine tuned, and almost complete....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk93N0HpR_Q

[airflamesred]

Looking good

[ibanman555]

I have as of yesterday upgraded to the new ARM based Megadrum. I haven't hooked any thing up yet, but currently working on what might be an issue hooking up the harnesses to the new PCB board... my buttons were not acting appropriately. I did notice however, an issue I was having with Atmega 1284, was that I could not transfer 'hi hat pedal' information to and from Megadrum Manager. With the new ARM board, MDM is now sending and receiving that info as it should!

[ibanman555]

Hey everyone,

So I could use a little input from those of you using the new ARM based MD and also with the Positional Sensing capabilities...

I am quite happy with how everything is going, I've managed to hook up my basic pads and cymbals at this point to get the interface working and to troubleshoot any problems I may have. I spoke with Dmitri about how my buttons (up, down, left, right) were not working correctly even though the harness for the buttons was attached correctly to the ARM board. I needed to use pins 2,3 and 4 on the buttons connector, and flipped the harness the opposite way for the buttons to work correctly. I don't know why, and curious if any of you had to do the same thing...

There were some ghosts in the system for a little bit, such as my far right lower meter going out intermittently each time I would restart MD. Also, random bouncing meters, but I will take care of that as I go, thinking RF interference or something... not a huge deal at this point.

I also got my Positional Sensing working pretty much right out of the box with Superior Drummer 2. I tried different settings as described in the configuration settings for MD, and could get obvious edge/center sounds from the snare.

Am I correct in thinking I can only use one drum with Positional sensing at a time? Right now it's the snare and I will keep it that way if need be, I just want to use it to it's fullest potential.

The next issue I found was that I cannot save my settings for PS in Megadrum. After I configured everything the way I wanted, I let the menu close out, and SaveConfig and SaveDrumMap in MD to 1, shut down and restarted, but the PS settings reverted back to default. All other settings remained. I do have AutoLoad Config set to 'yes'.

I also would like to note that all my previous Pad and Cymbal .syx files were useless with the new ARM board, everything needs to be re-programmed. Same for you?

So thanks for any thoughts on this stuff. I am so meticulous with this all, and hoping I don't have any problems with the hardware...

[dmitri]

Am I correct in thinking I can only use one drum with Positional sensing at a time? Right now it's the snare and I will keep it that way if need be, I just want to use it to it's fullest potential.

You could use all inputs with Positional sensing simultaneously as long as Superior Drummer (or any other VST) can correctly interpret a CC message as positional information for a note coming right after that CC message.

The next issue I found was that I cannot save my settings for PS in Megadrum. After I configured everything the way I wanted, I let the menu close out, and SaveConfig and SaveDrumMap in MD to 1, shut down and restarted, but the PS settings reverted back to default. All other settings remained. I do have AutoLoad Config set to 'yes'.

I will look into it.

I also would like to note that all my previous Pad and Cymbal .syx files were useless with the new ARM board, everything needs to be re-programmed. Same for you?

I would expect this. Besides, inputs with and without precision rectifiers (Positional sensing addon) will also need different settings.