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Marvellous! Thanks again. Don't suppose there's a way to get 8th note subdivisions on the metronome...

Talking of DIY conversions and knowing you as the king of A2E, do you have a recommendation for the best size/spec piezos for the 2Box module, Jerry? I'm planning internal triggers.

Thanks Jerry. I'd looked at that already and thought I understood it; I can see it allows a different set of kits to be chosen such as you might want for a set list but I didn't realise that that the new kit list could also have different unit settings.

Tim

I've had my kit for just over a week and my brain is starting to understand 2Box ways. I know the difference between 'Kit' and 'Unit' settings (small steps!!) and have now come to be wondering about the title of this thread as well.

My plan is to convert my acoustic drums using DIY internal triggers so I'll have two choices for gigging. From reading here and elsewhere it seems highly likely that converted  a-drums are likely to need quite different trigger settings especially with regard to 'threshold' and 'gain'. My question is, is it possible to make and load a new unit setting for use with different hardware.

The user manual on page 61 has this tip:

"The factory default settings are saved in the file „DrumItInit.dkit“ (see explanations on page
11). With a trick it is possible to create a personal init file, so you have access to your own
settings instead of the default settings in case of emergency. For this, back up the original
DrumItInit.dkit file on your computer (for the worst-case scenario) and copy your personal
"DrumIt.dkit" file to the module. Rename this copy to "DrumItInit.dkit".
This way you create an initialization file that contains your personal settings."

What I'm wondering is would it be possible to use this in a non-emergency situation and create an 'Acoustic Kit' DrumItInit.dkit file and load this when playing on the alternative pad setup? How do the rest of you work it when using the same module with different hardware?

Thanks hemiboy. That confirms my feeling that the stock heads aren't suitable for high tension. Cheers.

Hi guys,  I'm new to the forum having taken delivery of my new 2Box kit last weekend. I absolutely love it and can see along and happy relationship ahead. My question is about the standard mesh heads.

I have played a TD6 up til now and found with the mesh head on my snare (8 inch), that when the head was really tight the rebound was actually lower, something which I definitely prefer. The 2Box heads are definitely more bouncy and I'm wondering if the same effect is likely to happen with these if I crank them up. My concern is that they're quite a bit thinner than the Roland mesh and I'm not too sure how it would affect their life span and the triggering. Does anyone have any experience of this?

I'm grateful for any comments and hope to be able to contribute in the future.

Tim

Jerry, another question. I think there'll be many more coming in the future as well!

When you say "back up everything on the module" do you mean just to navigate to the view shown on page 10 of the manual and then simply copy and paste everything from the 'Cymbal' folder down to the 'Quick start guide' onto my computer? If a subsequent module disaster was to occur then could I simply drag everything back to the module card and start again?

Sorry if this seems a dumb question.


Forgot to say before, I absolutely love the kit and am so glad I went down this route rather than a TD30. My plan is to do a DIY A2E conversion on my small acoustic kit so I'll have two gigging options.

Jerry, many thanks for your helpful reply. I'll do the back up before I try anything more. Bit busy at the moment but will come back when I've had a chance to look at it again. Cheers.

First of all I'd like to say hello and thanks for having me on your forum. I'm a late starting drummer with a TD6 (going on Tuesday) and a couple of acoustic kits and have played in a band with a couple of mates doing small functions. I've already picked up some useful info from reading through previous posts but now I've finally got my 2Box kit (arrived yesterday after I came THAT close to buying a Roland TD30K) I've realised that now the learning really begins and have got a couple of questions which you'll hopefully be able to answer.

Spent yesterday setting it up, calibrating my hihat and playing and this morning decided to connect it up to my laptop and have a look at the Sound Editor software. After a little bit of head scratching (I am 50, not an IT whizzkid and have come from a Roland TD6!) I eventually managed to work out how to display the kits and then how to drag and drop new sounds onto a particular pad. All well and good. I picked a kit which I'm unlikely to use in its native form (the Double Kick one, I think number 17), changed some sounds and then renamed it. I saved it in the Sound Editor (or thought I'd saved it) but when I rebooted, the kit had not been changed within the module. Any thoughts?

Secondly, the 4gb card is already almost full, about 300mb available. I've downloaded and extracted some of the additional sounds from the 2Box website and have managed to add the dsnd files to the module. As these files are in the 10-30mb range it's not going to be long before there's no more room. I've read about the 32gb mod but don't want to do that yet and certainly not until I feel a bit more familiar with things. My question is, what would you recommend as the best way to free up module space? I'm guessing you'd have to move some of the dsnd files elsewhere, ie, onto the laptop. Does anyone have any particular advice on the best way to do this? I'm also guessing that the actual kits which are displayed are in themselves quite small files and simply a collection of references to dsnd files which are accessed by the striking of a pad and it's the dsnd files which take up the majority of the storage??

And finally, I can see myself going down the SDSE/VST route in the future; just to clarify, it requires purchase of the SDSE software plus Reaper?

I'm really looking forward to learning more and can already see massive amounts of creative potential using the loop facility. Correct me if I'm wrong but I can see this as potentially akin to having a normal e-kit but with a Roland SPD-S built in???

I think I'll leave it at that for now but will definitely be coming back for more and thank you in advance for your help.

Tim