Finally got my kit home with me again - but only for a week.
In a very short time, I've redone the sounds I'm triggering via the Sample Pad Pro to stuff that will definitely work better for me, and designed a few more preset kits.
Here's the thing about the DM10 module: I can swap presets mid-song! I'm so happy with this kit! I leave the Sample Pad Pro alone, which has all sounds muted, sending to the midi channels I've assigned to them, then just use trigger chase to edit the sounds per kit preset - and most of those presets use the same sounds on the Sample Pad, since those are all just more cymbal sounds, as the pad is placed where I'd find a secondary ride cymbal.
I initially thought that I'd just be happy using a single kit preset, set up to sound like the drumset I want, and that actually works very well. But when we started doing Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith, I put in the wonderful car skid sound for that short pause before the snare drum 8th notes us into the final jam. It's awesome! But I didn't want to accidentally trigger that in any other song. Besides, I need the old drum machine 'clap' sound for several songs, which is what is normally on that trigger.
Well then we added Two Tickets to Paradise, so I added random bongos to my hi hat - so I play bongos and hi hat at the same time. Sounds awesome. I've been flicking to that kit preset in the middle of many other songs lately and I love how I can do that to fill out the percussion backline!
So now that has been opening up a whole new box. Now I'm making kits for slow songs, so they have tamborine mixed with the snare with extra reverb, longer sustain on the toms. I just sat down last night and built a new kit with those older Simmons sounding toms for some of our songs that could really benefit from that, like the Cars and White Wedding.
I have another preset just for fun soloing, with random ethnic drums on some of the rims, chimes, thunder.... I'm going to make some more experimental kits this week too, as well as check out many of the presets that I've never heard yet.
I put all of my own kit presets starting with my main kit as preset 001, and then progress onward in a good order for mid-song swapping, which is really easy and fast. If I like the preset I'm overwriting, I first store that to the end of the User kits, starting at 200 and working back. I haven't saved many of them since they didn't use any sounds I really liked. But I kinda wish now that I would have saved them all. Oh well.
But when I was just adding my latest new kits, I found some that I really like, so I'm eager to see what they sound like compared to my main custom kit I normally use, once I get hooked up to the PA again - which sounds entirely different from what I head through my headphones.
