settings issue in OS
0.36
"It has come to our attention that the Hihat default fader settings have
been set incorrect in OS 0.36. This effects it so that you can't adjust
the volume for the Hihat, as it has been grouped with the Toms. To
correct this issue please use the following steps:
PressUNITthen
navigate to theCONFpage.
Then press the Hihat button on left, and then press the top right data
button above the display until Hihat appears. You will now be able to
adjust the volume of the Hihat in theMIXpage."
update from Deve Loper
The hihat foot controller (when
calibrated) gives a linear control value which selects the appropriate
hihat sample when a trigger is received from the pad. Different hihat
sounds can be made with different amount of samples in between open
(pedal 0 %) and closed (pedal 100 %).
Examples of how samples are mapped to pedal range:
2 samples on 50, 50 %.
3 samples on 25, 50, 25 %. (So half open sample is played between 25 %
and 75 % pedal range)
4 samples on 17, 33, 33, 17 %. (So 2/3 open sample is played between 17
and 50 %, and 1/3 open sample is played between 50 and 83 %)
etc...
There is a test hihat sound with 4 samples on the web (downloads
page) so one can check this behaviour. Please check the pedal
bar on the UNIT-TRIG page while testing. One should be able to keep it
stable at the same bar segment even when hitting the pad (ok as well if
it jumps between 2 adjacent ones). Otherwise there might be too much
mechanical movement between the pad (upper part) and the puck (lower
part), or as noted by someone, the spring in the pedal might be too
weak.
The test hihat should sound One, Two, Three and Four if hit when it's
open, 2/3 open, 1/3 open and closed respectively. When you do a foot
chick (pedal down and keep it down) it sounds Ten (short decay). When
you do a foot splash (pedal down and immediately up again) it sounds Ten
(full length).
Next OS will have a separate open and closed calib, so one can adjust
this range to ones liking.
cymbals
Yamaha PCY-135
Yamaha PCY-65
Millenium MPS-400
Millenium MPS-200
Roland CY-8
Roland CY-5
pads
rack Gibraltar
Dixon
Yamaha
mac issues(top) issues that have arisen from the forum
Mac OSX seems (sometimes?) to copy ._filename to
the DrumIt drive. Why, I don't know. Any file having the .dsnd extension will show up on
the KIT-DRUM page under Drum, and any file with .wav will show up on the
KIT-SONG page under Song.
The validity of the file (correct format and
header) is checked when it is selected under Drum or Song. If it's not
compatible, the sound or song is not loaded and there will just be
silence. Doing this format check for all files at start-up would take
too much time, so that's why they appear in the list anyway.
Here's a link on how to see
hidden files, so you can remove them.
Currently there's a limit of 256
files in the file list (.dsnd + .wav). Each can be max 47 chars long, excl the .dsnd or
.wav extension.
So if
there's a ._ file for every normal file, some files might not make it in
the list.
Also, there can be max 64 folders (incl root folder
"/"), even if they are empty. The complete folder path, like
"/folder_1/.../folder_n/", can not be more than 63 chars.
I'll increase those limits in
the next OS release.
Two more things.
1st, make sure you have boot
1.30 before doing ANY file copying to DrumIt.
It is advised to run a disk
check too. Either by means of selecting Properties:Tools:Check Now on
the DrumIt drive, or by running "chkdsk /f <drive>:" from a command
prompt. For Mac there's probably something similar.
2nd, if you see a strange
message when the OS starts like FAT_S_0512_C_04k (meaning a FAT with 512 byte sector and 4 kbyte
cluster is detected), you
have a Flash drive with the wrong formatting. Even though this is technically a correct drive
format, for the purpose of playing sound files in DrumIt, it's not
appropriate (sounds might distort). Unfortunately this might have
happened on some units of the first batch.
If you succeeded in updating to
boot 1.30 and the you have wrong drive format, you can reformat the
drive to FAT32, 32 kbyte cluster and copy back all sound files. If
anything fails, contact your distributor.