Any Roland V-drums guns out there? Trying to get the V-Drum pad sounds to match mouse clicks in SD3

[steve keys]

Hey guys

Any help on this appreciated!

I’m learning more and more each day, and this forum is wonderful .

My problem at the moment is the Roland Vdrums (all USB’d up correct in terms of audio midi)
doesn’t seem to get the big full sound with all the crack and sustain that the loaded kit in SD3 does when auditioning using the mouse on a drum in the software.
I need to absolutely POUND my Drum pads to get close, even then its still a way off and I’m missing out on all the good stuff!

Is it velocity related? Cam i make some adjustments in SD3 to make my Vdrums fire better and MATCH the sound intended when playing live? Any step by step stuff would be great – relatively new to this world – I’ve watched the Sweetwater video with Nick Divirgilio using my exact setup and i know it works – must be an easy fix I’m hoping!

Many thanks in advance guys

Steve

By the way, here’s that Sweetwater video i mentioned using the Roland TD-50KV

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[Mark King]

Good Video. For once really plays the Toms so you can tell what they are like. I would have preferred him to use a larger kit so using all the 5 toms as I have.
Anyway have you tried the midi monitor to see what velocities your module is outputting? What about recording a few phrases and then go into the grid editor and see what velocities are being recorded for the hits, 127 is the loudest. If you have to hit ridiculously hard to hit 127 then the triggering on your module is not setup correctly. I use a TD30 and Make sure I can get a 127 out with what is my own hardest hit. I haven’t had a module yet I can use the stock trigger settings. We all hit softer/harder. If that looks all good or once you have changed the settings but you still feel you need more you can always change the velocity curve but you do tend to lose the softer end of the playing doing this. There are different curves you can use though which will get you to top velocity quicker.

SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors

[Vindes]

What you’re describing is the midi note velocity, as Mark said. Clicking the drums in SD3 produces a hit at velocity 127 (the max). Also as Mark said, you can see what velocity your drums are putting out by watching the midi monitor.

There are a couple things you can do within SD3 to adjust this. Easiest, choose a SD3 patch that applies a lot of compression. The Hard Rock and Metal type presets tend to add a lot of compression, so even your soft hits will be loud. You could also use velocity adjustment curves, which you can access on the Drums tab of SD3 over at the right. You can redraw the curves individually for each drum, you can save velocity curve presets, etc.

SD3; Reaper; Roland TD25; Win10

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