Roland KD-120 Kick Sensitivity Problem

[angr77]

Interesting Reading!

Best regards

Anders

[mdefiore]

Since the first cycle is negative would it help to polarity reverse the cable?

This was exactly my reason why I asked to test it on inputs with positional sensing. You can most certainly use this pad on regular inputs but you either have to revers the polarity of the piezo or better yet use a crossover cable where sleeve at one end goes to tip on another end and vice versa.

So anytime a pad with a negative fist half-wave is used with the MD a precision rectifier or a cross over cable should be used for best performance?

[dmitri]

Since the first cycle is negative would it help to polarity reverse the cable?

This was exactly my reason why I asked to test it on inputs with positional sensing. You can most certainly use this pad on regular inputs but you either have to revers the polarity of the piezo or better yet use a crossover cable where sleeve at one end goes to tip on another end and vice versa.

So anytime a pad with a negative fist half-wave is used with the MD a precision rectifier or a cross over cable should be used for best performance?

No. Most of the pads/cymbals (all I dealt with) produce signals with gradually subsiding signals and so the second half wave is just as good as the first for velocity calculations. Even in your case it would have worked fine if the pad wasn't so "cool". A combination of a "cool" pad and huge difference between the first and the second half wave makes it necessary to make sure the first half wave is positive either with a precision rectifier or reversing piezo polarity.