Hey guys,
I went ahead and used your edited setup file. This definately cured my kick - hihat problem completely.
But there is something really wrong with using mdm (I have version 20140516) with my firmware (20140518). I run on a laptop with windows 8.1 on it. Any time I try to write a settings files using mdm, the program just freezes partway. I have to kill it with windows because it never recovers. It kinda seems to work, but I know it messes up some values. For instance all my tom's gain went to 0 once I used your settings ??!!
Editing on md itself works reliably all the time. Have you ever run into this type of problem ?
many thanks for the help, greatly appreciated