A to E drum conversion : Megadrum + Acoustic drum + Junxion

[johnvpr]

so you mean wired like this?

i'm triyn by setting <HiHat Pedal >Type: Pot, CC Value: 4, LowLevel: 40 HighLevel to 400 and chenging this values cant get it to ork the right way

[dmitri]

Either I'm blind or you wired it on the last pic just the same as on the pics before but only using colours.

[johnvpr]

sorry dmitri, I' cant explain me propley in english, see my drawing,
so Y and Z where should go

[dmitri]

Is Y tip from a slider? Then connect it to HiHat input. X and Z connect to the ground and HiHat power source.

[kimouette]

Just to keep these precious info somewhere...

Gastric,
I noticed that you've put 3 or 4 rim piezos on your snare....
What are the advantages?
and do you connect all your rim piezo to one single jack or multiple jacks?

I wired the rim piezos to the same ring/sleeve on the same jacks. Multiple piezos just provide better and more consistent triggering across the entire rim. If you only use a single piezo the velocity will be loudest around that single piezo.

I'll be adding 1-2 more bow piezos to my ride as it has a hot spot within 2" of the location of the peizo and I'd like to get consistent velocities across the entire playing bow area of the ride. This isn't an issue with the bell since it's a small physical area, nor crashes since you generally just whack them fairly hard as opposed to playing a wide variety of velocities like you do on a ride.

Since I currently have only one piezo to make some tests, I didn't get to try lots of different settings. But already, I'm disapointed at the snare's lack of naturalism. Hitting the cone directly sure works, but near the rim, and while doing drum rolls, it doesn't sound quite real (even though I used a great snare kit)!

I might just stick extra piezos to each instrument and solder them to the same jack, like you did!
Are you sure the signal doesn't get all "messy" when hitting hard between two or 3 piezos?

Multi-piezos is for the rim ONLY. You still use a single piezo for the head. As far as the sensitivity or overall performance of head hits you are likely to always find that hits directly over the piezo are louder (more velocity) and hits further away are softer (less velocity). I'm not a drummer but from what little experience I do have that seems to jive with acoustic performance. But you should also be able to manage that to some degree via module settings which is out of my realm of experience at this point since I do not have a MegaDrum yet.

[kimouette]

I'm ALMOST sure I have a defective potentiometer but just to be 100% sure I have to buy a new one... does this make any sens :

(I tried to slowly move the potentiometer from "down" to "up", but strangely the results are complete different... )

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[dmitri]

Did you actually tried to disable AutoLevels in the Pedal configuration and adjust Low and High levels manually?

[kimouette]

I didn't touch any setting! If default setting is set to AutoLevels Yes, then I guess so.
Right now I'm having a hard time figuring out how the hell to navigate through the menu!!
I wish I could with the Config Tool but since I cant....

My buttons are still not identified and looking at the schema everytime doesn't quite help!

But the worse part (and this is why I haven't tried to change the Autolevel and Low and High level setting) is that I dont know how to get further then the first 12 menus MD offers me, from "Megadrum.info blahblah" to "Latency", it works.
But then, Vu meter, chanel setting and each zone's setting (including the damn hihat controller) is unaccessible. Have I erased something? Or what button combination am I supposed to do??

[dmitri]

I didn't touch any setting! If default setting is set to AutoLevels Yes, then I guess so.
Right now I'm having a hard time figuring out how the hell to navigate through the menu!!
I wish I could with the Config Tool but since I cant....

My buttons are still not identified and looking at the schema everytime doesn't quite help!

What do you mean by 'buttons are still not identified"?

But the worse part (and this is why I haven't tried to change the Autolevel and Low and High level setting) is that I dont know how to get further then the first 12 menus MD offers me, from "Megadrum.info blahblah"

Thanks:)

to "Latency", it works.
But then, Vu meter, chanel setting and each zone's setting (including the damn hihat controller) is unaccessible. Have I erased something? Or what button combination am I supposed to do??

LEFT and RIGHT to navigate between all menu items, UP and DOWN to change them. If you cannot go beyond Latency, than something is wrong with the firmware.

[kimouette]

What do you mean by 'buttons are still not identified"?

The 4 pushbuttons, they are just "hanging" to their wires. I still dont have any case and the way I have to manipulate the MD at this moment is really not confortable (LCD screen upside down, unidentified pushbuttons, big spaghetti of jacks and wires etc...)

LEFT and RIGHT to navigate between all menu items, UP and DOWN to change them. If you cannot go beyond Latency, than something is wrong with the firmware.

AAh! Great!! Well not great but at least I know that not being able to find these options is not "normal". If these options are not part of some sort of hidden sub-menu then I can stop playing arround with unexistent combinations of buttons.

I've had some trouble ordering my new 16Mhz crystal but next week I should have it. Until then, I wont try to go any further with the setting. I definately have to update the firmware before trying anything else!

But the worse part (and this is why I haven't tried to change the Autolevel and Low and High level setting) is that I dont know how to get further then the first 12 menus MD offers me, from "Megadrum.info blahblah"

Thanks:)

LOL !!!