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Originally posted by Timsplace
Anyone using any of these libraries with Roland V-drums? Do they require much tweeking to work (ie mapping triggers and velo)?
Tim |
Hi Tim.
I've just started to use DFHS with V-Drums. I'm using real snare, real cymbals, and real HH, and DFHS for kick and toms only. My current MO is to record everything at once: real snare, cymbals, HH, the V-Drums MIDI, and the V-Drums kick and toms as well (so I can line up the rendered samples, though this may turn out to be an unnecessary step if I discover no latency issues). So far, I've recorded several takes of a piece I'm working on and am now in the process of comping the tracks. What I see as my first difficulty is keeping the MIDI tracks in sync with my edits.
The setup for DFHS is not hard. I built a small set for a kick, three rack toms, and a floor tom. I just had to figure out which notes the V-Drums were using for these instruments (by looking at the MIDI tracks) and then set these values in DFHS. So, mapping was not difficult (except I discovered that some of the tom notes seemed doubled - but DFHS allows more than one note for each drum, so I just mapped it this way and moved on. But, I'll probably want to understand why at some point.)
You can save the DFHS set you build and it remembers everything except that when used in a 96K session you have to adjust the tuning to lower each drum by a little more than an octave ( -101.5 is the setting I use) and it does not save this. Not real bad, just a minor nit. I have not yet had any need to tweak velocities. One nice thing about DFHS is that you can set it to play a different sample on successive hits, so it helps make it sound more convincing.
I'm curious what you are doing (and I'm assuming your asking about samples for V-Drums because you have discovered as I have that while they are a joy to play, they are not quite as convincing as real drums).
Regards,
Scott