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HEy,
I'm just using ableton and i find it really a fantastic program so I want it to use with my roland TD 8 V-drum controller.
I have bought a midi interface and have coupled my drum controller with the computer.
Ableton recognise my midi in signals and can resend the midi signal back to my TD 8 controller. BUT......

I only can hear the midi signals that ableton are resending to my drum controller as a piano tone, But i want that the signals are converted trought my drumcontroller so I can hear te drumtones that i have created on my td-8 drummodule;
fOR A RESUME/ I can hear the midi signals in my drummodule but only as a piano sound and I want it to be converted into a drumtone (Hihat, basdrum,.....). Can somebody help me, and is this an ableton problem or more a Roland problem??

TD series drum sound module have the drum kit on ch.10 usually, so set this as the output channel in Live.

Yes, I've tried that (every channel untill 16 or you can also set "All channels" and only at 10 and "All channels" I get the piano sound,

So that means that the midi signal is send out by ABleton but the TD roland can not convert it into a drum sound (and the strange thing is that I can not find the piano sound in my drummodule (isn't a standard sound).

What now???

I have a TD12 kit and had a TD6 kit which was more or less the same for backing sounds.

The midi setup is ch 1-4 are backing sounds - basically a GM sounds module. Ch 10 is the drum kit. Ch 11 is percussion. I think this is the default, or if not, it the way I allways have mine setup.

If you are allways getting paino sounds regarless of the channel, then check the midi channel settings on the TD8 - paino is the default backing patch for backing part 1 - normally on Ch.1.

It has been a while,...


But my problem is solved,

There was a parameter in my module tha says that channel number 5 was the drum patern.

Now I can record. There is a little bit of delay in the midi tansport, I know that there is already a lot of written but is it possible to play live midi into the controller without mutch delay (on stage i want to do a solo and my brother must mixed my solo into a song (Loops and etc)?