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[stephenpaulharper]

I’ve never used Sonalkis plugins, but from what I’ve read, they have a decent reputation.  However, I agree that the FX included with SD2 are rather featureless.  I think it would be great if TT added a dozen or so presets for each plugin, as they’re a little hard to manipulate for me.  A convolution reverb would be a godsend, but I read in another thread that it wasn’t going to happen.  I don’t really see what the big deal is though.  For the longest time, BFD didn’t have any FX at all.  By the same token, if you’re going to include FX, they should be at least as good as the parent product.

My two cents.

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[stephenpaulharper]

You asked this question over at V-drums.  You think we’re a bunch of liars? But yeah, those are older Yamaha pads and cymbals.  What a wretched band.  Like to get my hands on that guitar and vintage Korg though.  “The Zoo”.  I should form a band and give it a Portuguese name.

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[stephenpaulharper]

The Noble & Cooley and Yamaha kits get lots of praise, but the Craviotto kit shouldn’t be forgotten.  All three kits are drums of the highest order.  They all play exceptionally well with edrums also. 

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[stephenpaulharper]

ORIGINAL: bradch00

Hope I’m not stating the obvious, but when you log into the TT forum, you have “save as cookie” selected on the TT forum login panel, yes?

I wouldn’t put it past me to overlook something like this, but in this case, no I’m checking the cookie box every time.  If it was just Firefox, or just IE, I could understand, but both is just plain weird.

Thanks for the reply.

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[stephenpaulharper]

Yeah, I’m using the latest Firefox with cookies enabled.  They just won’t take.  Interestingly enough, the cookies for my account ARE stored, and it’s just one click to get into my members area on the main TT site.

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[stephenpaulharper]

ORIGINAL: jbraner
Is it a setting in your browser?

I don’t think so.  I’ve tried IE and Firefox, and Toontrack cookies never show up in either.  I’ve definitely got cookies enabled when I’m visiting the site, so I’ve no idea what’s up.

Thanks for the reply.

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[stephenpaulharper]

ORIGINAL: Whitten

Maybe you are missing something or have made a mistake on logging in and set up the first time?

Indeed I was missing something AND I must’ve made a mistake on my initial setup.  I was looking right through the “change password” on my profile page. At some point my initial pw wasn’t accepted, and in that case the site sends you a multi-charactered hieroglyphics-styled pw that I defy anyone to remember.  I’m still puzzled as to why none of my four computers will store the cookies from the site, however.

Thanks very much Chris.

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[stephenpaulharper]

I don’t think the USB on your Yamaha is a MIDI out.  I think it’s for loading sounds into your module.  I could be wrong — I don’t know much about Yamaha gear.  My suggestion would be to get a MIDI-to-USB cable and run it from the MIDI out on your module to your PC.  Be sure to buy a decent one and use the most up-to-date drivers.  That cable should show up in TT Solo as a MIDI in device.

Good luck.

Steve  

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[stephenpaulharper]

Thanks for the reply John.  A fellow at V-drums.com has suggested that the type of kill switch that Kit Toys uses, is called a touch switch, and is not “open” long enough (only 1ms) to convey an AFTERTOUCH message.  I’m exceedingly technologically challenged, but the way he puts it makes sense.  I’m hopeless at this kind of stuff, but I know via software that no AFTERTOUCH event is making it to my computer from the module, although as I said the internal sounds choke just fine.

EDIT: this fellow’s suggestion turned out to be the case.  There is no way to make the KT cymbals choke VSTs.  Live and learn.  Time to go shopping for Roland.

Thanks for all the help.

Steve

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[stephenpaulharper]

Thanks John.  HeHe.  That’s my thread.  I should’ve mentioned that the cymbals work fine with the internal module sounds, but no AFTERTOUCH message is making it to my computer.  The debate goes on.  Now there’s yet another thread on the subject.  It may be that the fact that the Kit Toys cymbals are single zone, whereas Roland cymbals are dual zone, with an FSR rim.  The resistance of the FSR triggers AFTERTOUCH, but a kill switch has no such resistance.  I just thought someone here might have some insight or suggestion.

Thanks again.

Steve

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[stephenpaulharper]

Thanks for the reply Scott.  Kit Toys are popular boutique ecymbals hand-made in the UK.  I was afraid there wasn’t a good answer, although it might be in Toontrack’s best interest to explore other options.  Alesis edrums for one, don’t use AFTERTOUCH to choke cymbals, and I’m sure there are other manufacturers that don’t as well.  Alesis are the 3rd most popular edrum kits, not far behind Yamaha.

Thanks again.

Steve

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[stephenpaulharper]

The Macbook soundcard may be sufficient, I’ve no idea.  I’ve got a friend who uses Macs and I’ll ask him.  It’s probably going to be important that you be able to lower the buffer size on your soundcard, and you usually can’t do that with off-the-shelf computers.  M-Audio and Edirol both make nice, inexpensive MIDI-to-USB cables.  Don’t go for one of the real cheap ones you see on ebay.

Steve

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[stephenpaulharper]

Thanks very much for the response Scott.  I will purchase with confidence.  The Classic EZX is right up my alley.

Steve

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[stephenpaulharper]

I guess no one “official” is going to respond.  I’m a PC guy, so I have no idea what kind of on-board audio device a Macbook Pro has.  That will be the deciding factor in whether or not you’ll need a soundcard.  For example, most PCs have a RealTek audio card that you can’t adjust the buffer size in, and the latency is bad.  You have to use ASIO drivers, and people have had mixed results.  I think there’s a Mac equivalent to ASIO but the name escapes me at the moment — use Google.  The MIDI-to-USB is no problem.  I’ve got my V-drums hooked directly into my audio interface, but also have a drumKAT for percussion and I use a M-Audio Uno for that.  Don’t know if it’s Mac or not though.  But it works just fine.

Good luck.

Steve

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