Electronic drums with garageband

Lloydcr

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I have just bought an alesis dm5 electronic drum kit. It has a midi out and I want to use it with GarageBand and I want to use GarageBand's built in VSTs. I have bought a midi to usb cable/interface (£3 off eBay). When I plug it in, A message pops up that GarageBand has recognised an input. But when I tap the drum kit, nothing. I have tried changing pretty much every option on the drum module (channel? thru?) and still nothing. Can anyone help? Also, there are lights on the midi to use cable thing, a red light comes on but the lights that show midi in or out do not come on.
 
This is the same thing i was trying to do... Found out some of the cheap cables did not work with my DM5 to Garageband. When i found one that did work, and set the DM5 to channel 10, it works.... for a little while, then stops once too many notes are played. I am researching that now. It has been over a year since this post but if you have any info on issues you have run into, it would be appreciated.
 
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