Capture.PNG
causticveritas wrote:1) I'm hitting the kick with roughly the same intensity and the velocity is all over the place. Seems like a problem to me. It's frustrating when I'm playing a song and I hit the kick with plenty of intensity and it triggers a low velocity note... i basically can't hear it when it's that low.
2) The reason is, I dunno... I was trying to get consistent behavior out of my kick drum. When the gain is too high i start getting false triggering on other inputs.
I had to turn the gain down across all channels to resolve the false triggering problem.
I tried as you suggested, but that seems to have made it worse. When the high level is set too high (per the auto leveler), then most kicks are too low velocity-wise,
No surprise as I can see that you set XTalk level to zero meaning no ctosstalk suppression.
Relation between hit strength and signal level is not linear and this is what the Curves are for. E.g. set the Curve to MaxCustom12 and all the hits will be the same high velocity. In reality you either use one of the higher level Log curves, e.g. Log4Custom5 and lower HighLevel slightly
don't forget to disable HighLevel Auto once you found what is the real HighLevel.
Btw, did you read through http://www.megadrum.info/content/pads-settings or you just randomly try various settings?
causticveritas wrote:No surprise as I can see that you set XTalk level to zero meaning no ctosstalk suppression.
Not sure I follow your meaning here. The kick drum is mechanically/physically isolated from the rest of the kit. So I put it into a group by itself and reduced the xtalk to 0 to remove any possibility of unwanted suppression. Are you saying I should increase the xtalk level? Also, I should clarify my comment about false triggering, when I say that setting the gain too high causes false triggering, I don't mean false triggering due to cross-talk, but rather notes are firing/triggering when i'm not hitting the kit at all. It only happens on inputs that are connected to a pad/cymbal. I'm using the correct cable, it's not a case of using a stereo cable connected to a single zone pad, and I do not have cables connected to inputs that aren't connected to a pad/cymbal. But like I said I was able to get that issue under control by reducing gain on several of the inputs.
Users browsing this forum: DDCat, Majestic-12 [Bot] and 66 guests