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Exact sounds of the Electric Drum Set to my computer
Hi I'm new to Cakewalk, and I've bought Cakewalk's Music Creator 5. I have underestimated its user-friendliness with my problem.
What I want to do is simply record music from my Yamaha DTXplorer (electric drum set) to my computer as clean as possible. One problem I found was that whatever I play on the drums, it just corresponds to the standard kit on Music Creator.
Example: Using a cowbell sound over my snare pad. When played and heard on Music Creator, it makes a stick sound (which is the standard set).
I'm just asking how to record whatever sound I play on the electric drums to Music Creator 5, within the easiest way as possible.
Here's what I have:
-Yamaha DTXplorer drum set / module
-Cakewalk USB MIDI Interface UM-2G
-MIDI wire
-Music Creator 5
-Not sure if this is my sound card but, SigmaTel C-Major Audio?
Thank you
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RobertB
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Re:Exact sounds of the Electric Drum Set to my computer
2011/02/08 10:23:18
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To record the actual sound of your DTXplorer, you will need to connect the audio line out to the line in of your sound card.
You can record this to a normal audio track.
The sound is not transmitted via MIDI, only data. The data triggers sound in a different sound module (in this case, the drums in MC5).
hth
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Re:Exact sounds of the Electric Drum Set to my computer
2011/02/09 06:33:12
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ohh... So there's no "translator" I can make or find to have the exact sounds from my electric set? Does the drum map manager do anything to help me out? I thought there was a possible way to edit a map from my data to the computer...
And there's no Audio line output on my module. There's only Aux In. Unless the headphones socket would do? I'm sorry I'm pretty bad at technology being a complete beginner to the recording path.
Thank You RobertB
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Kalle Rantaaho
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Re:Exact sounds of the Electric Drum Set to my computer
2011/02/09 13:45:53
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According to Yamahas site your kit has Left/Mono and Right output. That should do.
The drum maps have nothing to do with the actual sounds of synths. They just include info like " the snare of this synth is located where the tom1 of that synth is", but they include no audio data..
If your kit had MIDI in, you could record MIDI in MC, and then play the MIDI through your kit and record the audio output .
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Re:Exact sounds of the Electric Drum Set to my computer
2011/02/10 11:53:33
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side.. as already mentioned previous.. setup both the audio / midi for it..
ALSO the base octave for that might be wrong, so you can adjust that in options perhaps.. or Yamaha's mapping is different.
I use an MU128 , but to get it to change from the standard kit you need to send it 2 midi messages.. 1 a bank change.. 2 the patch number change..
you might be able to find an instrument definition to make that task straight forward / transparent.
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Re:Exact sounds of the Electric Drum Set to my computer
2011/02/11 09:54:44
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@Kalle I see, well my drum module has no MIDI in it. So I don't really think I can record in MIDI unless someone shows it to me. About the Left/Right stereo outputs, I remember there was a device that acts as an interface from the stereo outputs to the computer. I wonder if I can get such a thing.
@Fog If I can simplify what you're saying, you're telling me to send MIDI messages to get my kit to change my kit or the standard kit? Unfortunately, Idk if my drum module can send midi messages... I have no idea how either... sorry
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Kalle Rantaaho
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Re:Exact sounds of the Electric Drum Set to my computer
2011/02/11 10:26:58
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So I don't really think I can record in MIDI unless someone shows it to me
You have MIDI out, which is what you need to record MIDI, and play the drums with the sounds offered by Music Creators Studio Instruments.
Don't fall in despair and keep repeating "I don't know how" as long as you haven't done the tutorials nor read the help files about soft synths and drum-maps. I'm sure there's a map for Yamaha that gives you cowbell for cowbell instead of the sticks.
And, as said, you can record the actual sounds of your drum kit through its audio outputs. The editability of MIDI is'nt available then, unfortunately.
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Re:Exact sounds of the Electric Drum Set to my computer
2011/02/11 11:48:12
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I read the manual, skimmed through the help section as well as some forums. I think I was really close into changing the sounds. First, I inserted Cakewalk TTS-1 from soft synths. Then I hit the top button of channel 10 (which is the drum midi). Although when I try to change different sounds when hitting my pads, it just goes back to the original standard sound...
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Re:Exact sounds of the Electric Drum Set to my computer
2011/02/11 11:59:31
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@Fog I found the section on Instrument definitions, gonna read it right now
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