[eamon7]

they work great. easy to set up and program and they work perfecftly with superior drummer 2. i had a d4 and a dm5 and the i/o blows them away as far as ease of use and programming. our drummer has 2 of them and uses sd2 live in our weekend classic rock band and they work great.

[eamon7]

we have already discussed this through e-mail but i’ll post this up in case anyone else is wondering how too.
 
 an alesis i/o for $150 is all you need to get started. you will also need toontrack solo (free to registerd users)which will work as the host. use asio 4 all (free) as the sound drivers and the computers built in soundcard will work fine. this setup will give you a 10 piece kit. i use a dell gx260 pc with 512 ram, 2.3 ghz, and it works fine. no latency. simply plug your alesis i/o into the usb and open toontrack solo. take the output from your pc or laptop and go into the mixing console.
 
   now if you need more than 10 inputs then toontrack solo will not work and they need to fix this cause it sucks that it doesn’t. toontrack solo only supports one input. come on guys. one input? so to use a second alesis i/o you will need something to host the program in a standalone mode. any good recording software that supports ez drummer and sd2 will work. sonar 7 works, but i use mixcraft4 by http://www.acoustica.com hey its $65 and it works great. another nice thing about mixcraft4 is that i can record our drummer playing in the midi mode and when i play it back it triggers sd2. handy for soundcheck or setting up the sound as i don’t need the drummer present plus he can go out front and hear what his drums sound like through the p.a system. you can also globally add effects to the kit besides the ones that come with sd2.  works great.

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