A Year Later: Thank you all! The Alesidonnerimmons Frankendrum kit lives!

[RRPD4130]

Greetings, all! Brief summary:

-retired cop, cancer beater, 30+ year veteran of niche Alesis gear (good, bad or indifferent), e.g., the Control Pad v1, the ioDock v1, et.al. but never owned an ekit, only acoustic

-a year ago, made an impulse buy of an overstock 1/2 price DED-200.
Defective ride cymbal connection inside molded harness. I bought a solderless DB25 and made a replacement.

-meanwhile, another impulse buy. Knowing it was a dead-end iOS product, BUT with considerable analog potential as a TMI, I bought a new in box Alesis DMDock for $50

-the DMDock has since suffered experiments & full teardown, hardware first, then to investigate the possibility of JTAGulating into the ARM SOC (TLDR, no) and sniffing around.

However, I returned it to duty as a TMI, ditched the DED200 module completely, and the bastard child DMDock continues to serve with honor,

but it is a faff to fire-up my lengthy signal chain just to tappytaptap alongside Professor Peart (RIP)
which put me on a path to obtain a standalone module for Quickies.

Simultaneously, unexpected death of a neighbor who once owned honky tonks in West Texas...
yaddyadda, I inherited his complete, mint condition, small-nightclub-sized late 70s-80s Peavey live sound setup (naturally, my Living Room Arena Rock Project took on new life. Pun intended.)

Today, many DIY bodges to the hardware & I/O have been made, all absurd, nonsensical and seriously overkill;

but, retiree kitchen-sink paradigm, "might as well hook that up too", applies.

Accordingly, after a stalemate debate on buying a used XYZ module to accompany the DMDock, or eyeballing an on-sale Nitro Max...

last week I bought a Titan 50 B-EX, the deciding factor was the bluetooth midi+audio+DIN+USB. (see above about connecting various odd & sundry bits together).

I intend to present worthy pics soon, if anything to demonstrate what can be accomplished with a little bit of guerrilla modding and a heckuva lot of studying, and more studying,

?some of which required /God-Granted-level of patience/ while parsing through layers and layers of Bravo Sierra from lesser gear-focused sites' stacked with imbecilic, unthoughtful NPCs & brand-simps, those of whom we all suffer?

but not here. Again, ya'll have been delightful in my process. I intend to give something back, if only some DIY inspiration such as you have given me. So, blessings to all.

Thank you and Godspeed!
Eric

[RRPD4130]

EDIT/ADDENDUM: cheap, new nerdgear, the CME-Pro Widi & MIDI is now in play. It occurred to me to note that I saw RUSH 9 times in Texas in the late 80s. Enter, what we now understand as the Peart MidiKAT Simmons Era, but, during the Power Windows tour, at Dallas Reunion Arena,

brain boggled to bits when, for the first time to experience such a profound "thing",
Neil's solo introduced many new techs and (we can yaddayadda for days)...

cranked off the out-of-nowhere, completely unexpected, 'Big Orchestra' hits (later updated to 'Big Band' brass hits, etcetcetc). MIDI was magic to be figured out, alongside that my entire music education was heavily influenced by Neil Peart since junior high band, SNL -Snares For Life- in the late 70s.

The Alesis Control Pad v1 was my entry into DIY sample-triggering; my first homemade sample was a crappy attempt at a (DCI-stadium-reverb full-drumline HIT). RIP, Professor.