Help with Electronic Drumset

[paiste artist]

OK so im fixing to start recording a demo with my band and i'm the one doing it. I have a alesist dm-5 electronic drum kit and a greatch 6 piece maple. I want to use the bass and snare from my electronic drumkit and mic my real cymbals and toms. I'm using a M-Audio 18/14 and i usually use four mics when recording my drums. Is it possible use my four mics analog and two drum pads through digital inputs at the same time. Also this is my first time like recording on my electronic kit how do I plug my dm-5 brain into my interface. It has audio outputs L and R and a Midi out so I'm a little confused. Soo any help would be nice it might be impossible just somthing I was thinking about.

 

[Mistral]

I think your best course is to record the electronic components through the midi connection, and apply VST drum samples to them, that way you free your analog and digital ins for the overheads and toms.. maybe a mixer that can handle digital output would come in handy, it all depends on if you have enough analog ins on the m-audio card, I don't know much about the model. But sure you can definitely record the electronic components and live mics simultaneously, but if you use midi for the DM5 just remember you won't be able to hear the output til you hook the kick and snare up through a VST instrument like ezdrummer, addictive drums, BFD or drumkit from hell. but one of those will almost certainly give you better results than the DM5's sounds, which is probably why you're doing that in the first place, maybe if you get one of the above VST drum plugins you will find you like their tom and cymbal sounds also.