anonymous
17 April 2004
I'm wanting to play electronic drum pads with live drum samples rather than simply programming, to get the feel of a real drummer, but I've struck a problem...
I've hooked up my drum pads to my Alesisi D4 - works great - but the D4 internal sounds aren't so great, so...
I connected the MIDI out of the D4 to my EMU sampler hoping that I could use the drum pads via the D4 to trigger some great drum samples I've got in the EMU sampler, but.
when I hit the drum pads, it only triggers the first part of the sample for a mini millisecond (as long as the duration of the hit on the pads).
What am I doing wrong? Some of the samples are 0.5 secs or longer with room ambience, etc.
Anyone please help!
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I cant remember if there's any way to make the midi signal that
I cant remember if there's any way to make the midi signal that the d4 sends transmit a longer note duration, but it might be possible.
what you likely will have to do is set up your e4 samples to trigger as 1-shot so that any duration midi message will play the sample once from start to finish. once you are in 1-shot mode you probably want to set up the voices to different groups and make these groups monophonic so that when you hit a kick or snare the second time it retriggers the samples instead of overlapping and layering multiple decays etc.
I haven't had my e6400 for a few years but i remember being able to
make templates with these types of setups and then copying them and adding samples to build up kits.
have fun.
sleeper