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I have noticed, and mentioned to JMAN at one point, that it feels as if, once I have the HH foot moving steady quarter or eighths, with steady ride, ghosts on snare, and generally busier stuff happening, that the kit tends to not register everything, almost as if it can't handle too much at one time.  Like it misses lots of hits on everything. 

when this happens does rebooting the module improve things, or not?

another advantage of being able to easily remove the card and put it in a card reader is that the USB connection to the 2Box module is not very fast, from memory only USB 1.1.

No, actually I'm not. I think you mistook my use of the term SATA. Consumer grade SSD's have only become affordable in the last few years. When saying SATA, I was referring to IDE/EIDE drives via SATA. If you are using an IDE SATA drive with physical platters vs SATA SSD, the I/O is far superior on SSD drives. There is no moving parts thus the name Solid State Drive....and defragmentation becomes moot...which is a huge performance hit. SATA drives and SSD drives are completely different. Do they they use the same connector, yes. That's not the performance bottleneck. Take a look at any benchmark test on SATA drive vs SSD using a SATA connector. This is one of dozens of benchmark tests. None of the links I put in the original post were for Enterprise SSD's. They are consumer grade for laptops/PC's.

Regardless, Consumer grade SSD's are are the far superior choice for performance gains.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2048120/benchmarks-dont-lie-ssd-upgrades-deliver-huge-performance-gains.html

Or read any personal reviews of performance gains from peoples experience on Amazon reviews
http://www.amazon.ca/Samsung-Internal-Solid-State-Drive/dp/B00E3W19MO/ref=sr_1_2/182-2512286-7637442?ie=UTF8&qid=1425108500&sr=8-2&keywords=ssd+500gb

nope, you've definitely got your terms confused.

IDE and SATA are two different interfaces for connecting storage devices. SATA is the newer, faster standard and IDE has pretty much gone the way of the dodo.

almost all current hard drives (i.e. drives with magnetic spinning platters) and SSDs currently use a SATA interface.

i totally agree regarding the performance difference though. it's very hard to go back once you've used a flash memory-based drive...

confused. are the headphones plugged into your interface, or directly in to the 2 Box module?

Guys, if you're looking for a big improvement in performance either on your OS drive or external, go with SSD drives.

The read/write performance is miles better than SATA drives

you are confusing the storage type with the connection type.

the vast majority of currently available SSD drives use a SATA connection (really fast flash memory drives mostly use a PCIe connection)...

Just remember that Lustar's awesome software does not run on a Mac unless you use a virtual machine...and I've heard it's not optimal. Now on a Windows box...it performs spectacularly.

there's no problem using SDSE in a virtual machine, and actually using a virtual machine has the advantage that you can continue to use the computer while SDSE is working in the background (SDSE takes over control of the Windows interface).

you can also install Windows to run natively on a Mac. in fact you can install it natively and also run the same installation in a virtual machine as well...

instead of using the page up button, you can just press the "Unit" button. then you can hit "Save".

if you want to undo the changes instead of saving, hold down the "More" button. the "Save" button then becomes "Undo" instead.

a similar process applies to changes that you make to Kits...

to record your playing you would need to either connect some kind of audio recording to the analog outputs, or connect up a computer via MIDI and record the MIDI output (you can then send the MIDI recording back to the module to trigger the internal sounds)...

Recording- I've demo'd an older Yamaha kit, and done a few hours of recording with it.  Our band prefers to record all tracks live, as opposed to tracking everything individually.  With the electronic kit we used, latency was a major issue, to the point where we couldn't really jam together because of the delay between my actual playing and the delivery to the rest of the band.  Does the 2box have capability to be used in the fashion without a huge additional investment?

if you are recording the analog audio outputs from the 2Box module, the latency is low enough that group tracking should be no problem.

if you are using the MIDI output to trigger VST drum samplers on a computer, then there will be more latency. still possibly usable that way, but only if the computer, audio and MIDI interfaces are fast and well configured...

in my experience most brilliant people also tend to be heavily medicated...

okay folks, this right here is the future of e-drums --- no more rack clamps to wrangle, easily fits in your cabin bag on the plane:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyf5SvK-BJA

I do not see the point in it.
16bit sound even if you convert it to 24bit will sound not better from the source.

If, for example, you take (or make) a sound recording of 8bit, 8Khz, and then convert it to 24bit 96KHZ, will sound exactly the same as the originals (8bit, 8Khz) and not slightly better.

By the way, 2Box .dsnd files can be easily opened with 'SOUND FORGE' sound editor'
and are visible as 16 and not 24bit.

it will make a difference if internal audio processing in the module is done in 24 bit, even if the samples themselves are only 16 bit...

what operating system are you running (OS X, Windows, Linux), and what is your main audio interface?

to have a multichannel USB connection you would need another whole audio interface. on OS X you could configure an aggregate audio device that encapsulates multiple interfaces (not the ideal solution however).

otherwise, there are quite a few different multichannel AD converter boxes with ADAT outputs available these days...

i agree that the kit handling is a bit obtuse.

when you boot the module, the current 100 kit bank is loaded. then, any single kits are also loaded, and when scrolling through the kits in the module they appear after the 100 kits in the main kit bank, with the letter prefix which is generally based on the first letter of the single kit filename. hence the Cube Beech single kits appear as C1, C2, C3, etc.

you can have multiple versions of the 100 kit bank, but to load a different kit bank you need to hold down the Kit button while rebooting the module. the single kits on the other hand are always available as mentioned above (there can be up to 999 single kits).

in your situation it is probably more straightforward to either edit the default 100 kit bank, or a copy of it.

i'm not sure why your Cube Beech kits don't have cymbals assigned though, from memory they use existing cymbals...

how are you accessing the SD card? are you using an internal card reader, or another card reader attached to your Mac?