toontrack question

[VipeR]

Hello guys,

I'm still new to megadrum. I've been trying to get Cubase and toontrack working together with mega drum. I've gotten to the point where I do get sound out of it all, but... The sound that I get when actually striking the snare is totally different then when I tap the snare on the screen with the mouse pointer. The visual feedback I get from toontrack indicates that I do trigger the snare.

What am I doing wrong???

Regards,

Viper

[dmitri]

You have to match drum map between MegaDrum and synthesizer software. You do it either by assigning notes in MegaDrum matching sounds in a synthesizer or assigning sounds in a synthesizer matching notes in MegaDrum.

[VipeR]

You have to match drum map between MegaDrum and synthesizer software. You do it either by assigning notes in MegaDrum matching sounds in a synthesizer or assigning sounds in a synthesizer matching notes in MegaDrum.

I can see in ez drummer that I trigger the snare, so I thought that the mapping was ok

[ignotus]

It may be that you are triggering a different articulation of the snare. I'm not familiar with ez drummer but it's just a thought. Check the midi note mapping for each articulation because there are probably several notes associated with the snare, and you might be triggering, say, a rim or a shallow hit instead of a centre hit.

[angr77]

Hi!

I am not too familar with EZ...but i would try to use the standalone vST player from toontrack called solo first and load ez drummer here. Just to keep the complexity down a bit and really see if the mappings is right between Megadrum and EZ drummer. Then if this works...you are ready for the next step, Cubase!

There is a lot of questions regarding mapping...and it is a complex area. The key in most cases is to really dig in to the details and read the manual for the VST software. There are extremely good movies on Toontrack how to do mappings. When you know the exact midi note...it is just to enter them into MD/MDM...and play!!

For people who are using AD with MegaDRUM...i have stored my settings file for MD (called MDS) and my AD.map file on my site. Just to steal with pride...drag and drop into AD and play!

Best Regards

Anders

[VipeR]

Hi guys,

I've found it.....

It turned out that the sound I was hearing over midi was not the toontrack sound. That's why the sound differed.

Like I said before, i'm still a noob.

Thanks for the advice though.

Regards VipeR