You’d gather from my rather desperate rhetoric in the subject line, I’m SOL insofar as what do to about my DIY roland/hybrid drum set with Superior Drummer 3 (in Pro Tools) using anything EXCEPT the dreaded D-Drum trigger i/o’s, For some reason, having two of these bad boys seems to just mess it all up. I cannot seem to get repeatability. Meaning, simply, in scientific terms, you have to be able to repeat the same thing over and over again or its worthless. Sometimes, I hit my roland snare pad and i hear a signal/sound. Other times nothing. I hate the d-drum trigger i/o’s but so far all I’ve found is a $2200 dollar Pearl Mimic Pro which albeit is nice but I’d be paying for a ton of stuff I simply don’t need i.e. Steve Slate drums (please i’ve purchased every SDX and EZ Drummer Expansion kits known to man – I love toontrack why would i want to spend that much on a lot of stuff I don’t need? All I like about it is it has like 16 + hi-hat controller trigger inputs). I don’t know if its a trigger i/o issue, Pro Tools issue, or what. Any ideas? Help? Surely others are out there who choose to go overkill with 2 kicks, 1 snare, 1 hi-hat, 3 rack toms, 2 floor toms, 3 rides, 3 crashes. Thats my setup. Cheers. Well, not till I BEAT THIS THING.
To reiterate – I need a trigger i/o easy to use that can take 1/4 TRS roland cables from the cymbals/pads > a single trigger i/o with at least 14 inputs – connection = USB straight into iMac Pro > Pro Tools DAW. I had no earthly idea the pandora’s box I’d open while trying to impress John Bonham from beyond the grave. Or so I’d like to think Bonzo would be proud.
Frustrated,
Ryan
