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zendrumdude:
By the way Rev, you explained midi channels nicely.

People ask me all the time about my e-perc instruments.  I often explain midi by saying that hitting the drum pad is like pressing "play" on your CD player, and it plays a track that is ONE drum hit... and each drum is playing a different CD, each with its own drum sound.  That seems to help people understand how it isn't at ALL like an electric guitar, which is amplifying a physical vibration.

Midi is daunting for a while; I hope that if anyone has midi questions they'll ask!  I for one will try to help if I can.  For me, once I understood note numbers, velocity, channels, and CCs, I was good to go for drum applications... but it took me along time to get there!  At the time, I had no internet (high school kid, no computer in the house), and no one around here who knew midi... trial and error baby! ;)  (Mostly error! :o)

Jer

Rev2010:
Hiya Jer. The DM10 doesn't let you set a global midi channel for each kit itself but it let's you set midi channels for each individual instrument which would seem to clearly be tied to it's trigger. I think they did it this way to be less confusing rather than putting the setting under the trigger. Anyhow, since these settings are saved with each kit I think it should work fine. Gonna test it out tonight.


Rev.

Rev2010:
OK, here's the deal... it's possible to do exactly what I want but NOT by using midi channels into VSTi's. The reason is Cubase seems to recieve ALL midi channels and when you select a midi channel for the track it simply directs all received midi data on all channels into the VSTi. This is fine with VSTi's that are multitimbral, of which I have a few, so you can play just the sound assigned to a specific midi channel. This is not helpful though for non-multitimbral VST's.

The good news is what I want is possible simply by using the midi note numbers. Since there's so many available and since the DM10 saves the note assignments with each kit I simply assign all the extra sounds in other kits to notes that aren't used in other DM10 kits. So for example, the snare is typically note D1. When I change kits I have the snare note set to something else like B5 so in another active VST it controls a different sound.  ;D  So all in all I can still do what I want. Would be easier to use midi channels but hey, it'll work fine using notes too as there's no way I could possibly max out all the available notes.


Rev.

Hellfire:

--- Quote from: Rev2010 on July 14, 2010, 10:25:58 PM ---OK, here's the deal... it's possible to do exactly what I want but NOT by using midi channels into VSTi's. The reason is Cubase seems to recieve ALL midi channels and when you select a midi channel for the track it simply directs all received midi data on all channels into the VSTi. This is fine with VSTi's that are multitimbral, of which I have a few, so you can play just the sound assigned to a specific midi channel. This is not helpful though for non-multitimbral VST's.

The good news is what I want is possible simply by using the midi note numbers. Since there's so many available and since the DM10 saves the note assignments with each kit I simply assign all the extra sounds in other kits to notes that aren't used in other DM10 kits. So for example, the snare is typically note D1. When I change kits I have the snare note set to something else like B5 so in another active VST it controls a different sound.  ;D  So all in all I can still do what I want. Would be easier to use midi channels but hey, it'll work fine using notes too as there's no way I could possibly max out all the available notes.


Rev.

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Sounds good. Keep in mind, not all notes are changeable in the DM10. I don't think you can change the notes for the hi-hat, crash, and ride. Just an FYI. If you are already aware of that, then never mind.  :)

Rev2010:
Yeah I know, and that part kinda sucks but at least it's something. I think it's only the hihat and ride that have locked midi notes, at least that's what the manual says.


Rev.

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