Please help about positional sensing snare pad!

[cagrisari]

I dont run. I only don't want to wrong things. My english not enough so i dont understand some centences. That is all.

[Trommeltotti]

Again, I never built pads myself so I'm hardly of any help on this. Positional sensing in MegaDrum was tested by me with Roland PD 125X, Drumtec 14" snare and Pintech 10" snare.

@dmitri, sorry for off topping and also you did maybe answer this before on other place.

Which of the above commercial tested Mesh pads get the best results concerning in precision triggering, best sensitivity, best natural dynamics, lowest values on Minscan - Threshold - Retrigger - DynLevel and DynTime for you?

Did you tested those pads also with your new ARM based board and added Positional Sensing addon board? Better results? Please again some short words for this. Thanks very much with best regards

Trommeltotti

[dmitri]

The shortest signal I get is from Pintech 10" but the bigger a snare is the better feeling I have in terms of triggering precision and dynamics so in these terms Drumtec 14" is the best but, as I mentioned in another thread, it produces longer half waves, around 4ms, so in general incurs slightly longer latency which I personally do not notice.

[Nepo]

Hello Dimitri,
"cagrisari" ask about the way triggerwiring Roland /Alesis style and I have a question about this.
I finished my DIY Snare and I wired it like the Roland-style HEAD > tip/sleeve and RIM >ring/sleeve.
When I test the snare , it plays conversly Head is Rim and Rim is Head.
Ok it is logic because, I solded strict to the MD schematic and the combination for all HEAD are ring/sleeve and for RIM tip/sleeve,(In opposite to
the Roland wiring)
I can change it easily, thats not a big deal, but now my question...
You said that you test an PD125 , but normally this pad must have the same conversly behavior.
How do you compare this?

[dmitri]

Hello Dimitri,
"cagrisari" ask about the way triggerwiring Roland /Alesis style and I have a question about this.
I finished my DIY Snare and I wired it like the Roland-style HEAD > tip/sleeve and RIM >ring/sleeve.
When I test the snare , it plays conversly Head is Rim and Rim is Head.
Ok it is logic because, I solded strict to the MD schematic and the combination for all HEAD are ring/sleeve and for RIM tip/sleeve,(In opposite to
the Roland wiring)

"MegaDrum kit - instruction manual.pdf" shows that Heads/Bows go to tips and Rims/Edges go to rings.

I can change it easily, thats not a big deal, but now my question...
You said that you test an PD125 , but normally this pad must have the same conversly behavior.
How do you compare this?

Sorry, I don't quite understand the question.

[Nepo]

Hello Dimitri,

this confused me, in the instruction tip & ring shows me reversed, what is wrong?

May be I misunderstand the jack symbol?

[dmitri]

Where did you get this?

This is what I see in the pdf:

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[Nepo]

Hi Dimitri,
then its clear now!
I use a Manual downloaded from Feb.2011....I delete the wrong one!
(unfortunatelly I must change my MD connection completely)

Thanks for info...

br

Jörg