Signal Chain Help

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I maybe should have put this in the gear forums but I've got a lot of new gear I'm not too familiar with and need some help getting the best set up for rehearsing. My drummer has a massive kit and just added a few triggers, a mandala drum, and an Alesis control pad. Triggers are running through ableton and Steven slate digital no problems. The mandala virtual brain software is great but I'd like to run the midi through ableton but I'm not sure how to get sounds to the Alesis either. I'm new to midi and ableton, I play guitar and normally use Reaper. The mandala and Alesis are usb and the triggers are Trs through my motu 828mkiii. Using qsc k12s and Ksub. I have a bbe sonic max but I'm not sure how to route that either. Please help before I decide to just kill my drummer instead.
 
Are you solely using USB for MIDI into the computer at this time?

The Alesis is a controller. You choose the samples in Ableton and trigger them with the Alesis. Create a soft-synth drum track and assign the Alesis as the MIDI input. Select the soft-synth as the output from the MIDI track. Select patches to suit taste.

You need to read and understand the MIDI implementation for both the mandala and the Alesis. This information should be in the manuals. Also try a search on Google or Youtube for MIDI tutorials. MIDI is just a fancy digital piano roll with different code numbers assigned to different functions. You can program the Alesis to control various parameters of a soft synth or hardware synth as well.

You may at some point want to get a MIDI/USB interface that accepts 5-pin MIDI cables for more flexibility in routing and to avoid problems that can arise from using more than one USB-connected MIDI device at a time in some configurations.
 
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