Re: Connecting roland V drums to session drummer 3
2015/04/18 16:34:55
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It's a Roland, it will be GM. No need to re map at all.
I would see if you can re set it to factory default in case someone messed with it.
A lot depends on your drivers and system set up. If it is modern and fast then you might be fine with triggering the SD sounds directly.
My old system was underpowered and there was a noticeable latency. If I monitored my Yamaha kit (DTX450) directly and mixed that with the output from session drummer there was a very noticeable slap echo.
So I would do my overdubs using the Brain for monitoring. This gave me solid timing.
Simply turn off input echo on Session drummer while tracking to get rid of the echo.
My new system is much better so the latency induced echo is withstand-able but I still record with echo off.
But my Yamaha has pretty good sounds so they don't bother me for recording purposes. But- If the Roland's brain sounds are terrible then ya, you might want to use the Session Drummer sounds for inspirational playing.
As far as hooking it up, You'll be using your audio interfaces midi input. Make sure it is enabled as a midi device in midi preferences. Then insert a midi track and set the input to your midi port and the output to session drummer.