[Shadowdog]

OK, back to my singer and his info...he has ddrum triggers and 2 drum brains; Alesis DM5 and D4 (each with sounds we may possibly use to mix with miked drums sound.)

Anyway, he is making it sound as though we have to go from the trigger, to the brain, get the sound and record and audio track. I am a midi virgin, along with the rest of the stuff I haven't done, so may not know what I am talking about, but...if I understand how MIDI can work I should be able to go from the trigger, to the brain and record an actual MIDI track of just the information and then back to the brain to get the sample?? Then if later in the mix I do not like the sampled kick sound I can change or modify it. It wouldn't be until actual mix down that the sampled drum sound is "committed" to tape. Is this right??

Part 2: IF I am right, can someone give me a quickie connection explaination to connect the triggers to these 2 devices, and to get the info to the PC and allow me to then get the sound from the brain.

I am assuming that each trigger can be plugged into one device and I use one of the MIDI connections on the device to go to my MIDI interface (which I have to buy real quick) into my system MIDI back out of system and back into one of the brains and they are somehow bridged together. I just don't get when to use thru vs in/out.

whoever helps me the most I will send a gift card ;)