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[Krystof01]

Hi,
So as a follow on to my last thread; here's the next bit. I just bought a Yamaha DD-12 on e-bay (haven't got it yet). This has eight touch sensitive pads and a foot pedal/aux out and midi in and out.

So the important part. Can I buy a drum module now (alesis dm-5 or pro) and connect it to the yamaha digital drums; hopefully assigning each pad (8 of them) to the module as well as the foot pedal via MIDI and then record the drums from the module?

Thanks,
Krystof.

 

[mikeh]

Yes. The DD-12 can assign a MIDI note to each pad (and to the foot controller). Once you have assigned the proper MIDI note to each pad the MIDI signal to your drum module will trigger those 9 notes (8 pads and one foot controller).

You may be unhappy with the way the foot controller works - but if you are recording to a MIDI sequence (or even to a multi track recording format) you can always play the kick part using the pads as a seperate "track"

I owned a Yamaha machine several years back (it may have been a DD10??) I used it to play drums into Cakewalk - it wasn't the best - but it worked. I like my V-Drums better - but we all gotta start somewhere.

 

[Krystof01]

Thanks Mikeh; I just needed reassuring that at least in theory it will work.

I'm sure there will be more questions when I get the module and the Yamaha. I am recording to a digital 16 track so any problems with the kick I should be able to solve.