Nord Drum, or MIDI (Bop)pads and Drambo?

MarkR

While I do play keyboards, and use AUM for triggering various channels of synth apps, I'm a drummer first.

There's a part of me that is drawn to using hardware, such as my Roland Handsonic 10, and the Nord Drum 3P looks like a pretty cool addition to my rig. But I'm fine with using the Handsonic, or my BopPad, or even my elderly Roland SPD8 for triggering MIDI.

Either of these triggering Drambo or similar might be a way to go, but Drambo seems rather intimidating to set up. Have some templates been set up by friendly forum members for using BopPad or other perc. gear with Drambo?

Any suggestions greatly appreciated!

Gravitas

In regards to dRambo and drum triggering?
Easily done.

@supadom is the one to talk to for BopPad.

rs2000

Yes, setting this up can be intimidating but there's a way:
First, add a MIDI note filter in front of each MIDI to CV module:

Then, connect each track's MIDI note filter to the MIDI input of track 1 and make sure you keep track 1 selected so it will receive MIDI from your pad controller:

Finally, set each track to always receive MIDI:

supadom

There are different ways of doing it, that’s probably why it sounds confusing.
A tidy way of wrapping a drum kit if you want to have it on one track would be to use a layer mixer module that allows you to have each sound on a different layer like in the example below.

So what @rs2000 showed in the first image just multiplied for every layer.

There’s a boppad patch in patchstorage that you could try downloading to reverse engineer my way of doing it.

https://patchstorage.com/bop-max-4/

I’ve heard great things about Nord Drum but I personally don’t like confined spaces and the cost! Drambo at this stage IMO is stable enough for live use, especially if you’ve rehearsed with a set up for a while and haven’t changed it too much, I guess that’s true for most software based rigs.

In Drambo, to get basic things going isn’t that hard and learning bit by bit pays off greatly. Just remember to breath!

MarkR

Thanks folks! While Drambo does intimidate the above also gives me a good reason to properly sit down with it. Cheers.

Montreal_Music

@MarkR said:
Thanks folks! While Drambo does intimidate the above also gives me a good reason to properly sit down with it. Cheers.

I bought Drambo a while ago. Did not spent a lot of time with it, but each time I push myself to learn a little bit more about Drambo, I am amaze by this app. It is REALLY good. I understand why almost everyone here have a crush on Drambo