roland t6 vdrums as a midi controller?

[coolsoundman]

I have the roland t6 vdrum set and I also bought the drumkit from hell 2 software. right now, I have a cheap keyboard for connected to my computer using the midi cables and i'm able to run the drum program dkh2 using the keyboard. now that i have the vdrums, which has midi in/out connections, can i use the vdrums as a midi controller? it gets kind of tiring using the keyboard and i would rather have the feel of playing drums on the pads. I'm also using sonar 4 as my sequencer. Is this possible to use, or do i need to add something else?

[altitude909]

sure. just make sure that the vdrums are mapped to the same midi notes as DFH

[ssscientist]

If your audio/midi interface only has a single input as most less expensive ones do you'll need to pick either the keyboard or the V-Drums to act as a controller.

Just plug the midi out of the V-Drums into the midi in of the interface. You won't need to worry about the midi path back into the V-Drum brain because you're not going to want to use any of the V-Drum internal sounds --- at least for now.

Then, as altitude says, match the note numbers and away you go.

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[Mistral]

Sonar has a MIDI plugin called Transpose which did this job perfectly for me.. My Yamaha DTXplorer set was hooked up to EZDrummer and all the drums played fine except for the kick and the snare, they were playing the wrong sounds. I had tried messing with drum map settings but it doesn't seem you can set a custom drum map while using EZD as the out.. Luckily I stumbled on the Transpose plugin and using its "Custom Map" setting I was able to map the kick and snare to the proper notes within about 10 minutes with help from the DTX manual (at the back it shows the MIDI note assignments). I made this a preset for everytime I want to record or simply just play through EZD as its sounds are superior to anything in the Yamaha module, although they aren't half bad for just jamming.