Hooking up Roland Drumkit

[kotarock14]

Anyone here play Roland kit?
TD-3 kit I am to get. will it work properly through Live?

[fishmonkey]

hey, i don't have a Roland kit, but there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to use it with Live, both straight audio and as a bunch of MIDI triggers...

have you seen these new kits? if i had the money i'd be waiting for one of these... mmm...

http://www.2box.se/

[mkelly]

Anyone here play Roland kit?
TD-3 kit I am to get. will it work properly through Live?

We used a TD-3 kit last year to record some demos for my band. We took a MIDI out from the "brain" and fed it into my MIDI interface. In Live I created a rack with 4 chains - each chain had a Scale plugin and Impulse on it, and covered a different input octave (i.e. C0-B0, C1-B1, C2-B2, C3-B3

I used the Scale plug to transpose the incoming notes onto the normal Impulse set (C3-B3 IIRC). We then went through each pad on the TD-3 and started mapping the hits onto the appropriate Impulse slots. We then stuck the samples we wanted on each slot. It was time consuming but it worked okay I guess (no-one has complained too much about the drums on the demos.

This was done with Live 6 - I imagine it must be a piece of piss with the new drum racks, however we haven't tried it since Live 7. I guess it's just a case of you hit the pads, see what notes they trigger and drop the right samples on. You might want to use scale plugins cause sometimes the TD-3 uses different notes for what is essentially the same sound - no point duplicating the samples and settings on each slot.

Cheers,

mo