Thank you again!
Yeah, it wasn't until after I bought the Strike that I learned of the MIDI limitation. I was a bit disappointed at that, but it wouldn't have been enough to keep me from making the purchase anyway. I'm just blown away at what I've been able to get out of the module, and I know I'm only scratching the surface.
My DM10 is a solid backup. I have it set up to mirror the layout of my Strike, so if for some reason my Strike should fail (fingers crossed that it won't, but it's electronic, and anything can happen), I've got a plug and play replacement. I've even thought about using it for expansion and running it into my AUX port on the Strike.
Have you split any of your cymbal inputs on the DM10? Seems like I remember doing that before buying the Strike and it working pretty well. If I recall, I had split nearly every input on my DM10 at one time or another, and it worked fine. I ask because it seems to be another limitation of the Strike. You can split toms all day long with no issue, and there's even a way to split the kick. But if you split cymbals, the pad that you run the bow side to works just fine, but the edge doesn't trigger properly. I haven't fully tried to dial any of these settings in to see if there's a way around it, so there could actually be a solution out there.
I loved the story about "Signs." I love throwing stuff like that in. We have an original song that our bandleader wrote years ago. It's about a murder at a county fair, and at the crucial point, the killer pulls a .22 pistol and shoots the victim, who is really the villain of the whole story. Anyway, long story short, when he recorded it years ago, they just used a kick and snare to symbolize the shot. There's a quick pause right before so it stands out. We have played it in our band a couple of times, and I'd use a snare/china combo to make it pop a bit. We played an all-original show back in February, and we decided to add that song. I went out on the web and found a .22 sound sample, cleaned it up a bit and added it to the kit. During the rehearsal, I let it loose and I thought he was going to fall out laughing. He couldn't believe how great it sounded. And loud! We decided to keep it under wraps until it came up in the show. May not have been the greatest plan, LOL. We were in a small brewery, and didn't realize how much louder it would sound. We had a couple people come up afterward and say they were scared at first until they realized what it really was. Everyone loved it, though!
I used to have a bad habit of hitting rims, something I worked on controlling, so it made more sense to me to deaden them. I used to duplicate the head sounds to get around it, but I've since improved accuracy, so I kinda miss having the rim clicks. But it is nice for appearance to have more pads!
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Shawn