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.

 

[Willpower101]

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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BZZZZ!

Wrong. Midi can daisy chain.

Sorry to thread necro, but this thread post is a top google search for the subject and it needs to be corrected because of that.

 

[ssscientist]

BZZZZ!

Wrong. Midi can daisy chain.

Sorry to thread necro, but this thread post is a top google search for the subject and it needs to be corrected because of that.

Oh, stop.

Getting into a discussion of the many uses of midi thru would've confused the issue and not helped shed any light on the topic at hand, If you read the original question, coolsoundman mentions a midi in and a midi out as the two midi ports available and i'm sure his 'cheap keyboard' doesn't have a midi thru either.

'Midi can daisy chain' is not worth 'thread(ing) necro' and does nothing to correct this 'thread post'.

Midi thru is useful to string one or two midi devices from the main midi keyboard/controller/whatever. If you try to string together more than that you will get midi delay because midi is a 32 kilobaud serial language. You will need to use a midi thru box, and (if you can still find one) it's the best way to string multiple midi devices together because you're not limited by every module, keyboard, drum machine or midi widget needing to have it's own midi thru.



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