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Hi.
There's nothing the software can do to lower the sensitivity. If a trig signal is too hot it already clipped at the analog to digital stage. So use a series resistor from the pad to the DrumIt. The trig input impedance is about 15 kOhm so 15 kOhm extra in series will reduce the trig level with 6 dB (half the amplitude). To reduce to 1/4 (-12 dB) use 45 kOhm.
Deve.

Try this (seems PC only though):

http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/

Read this too:

http://www.hjreggel.net/cardspeed/cs_calign.html

1.20 release will have adjustable bow/edge trigger level while the cup is fixed.
This allows to set the bow level so it does not generate cup zone triggers.

Deve.

Hi.
It's generally a bad idea to reformat SD cards. Since they are based on rather large erase blocks (NAND Flash technology), the factory format of the card should be retainded. With few exceptions, I have not encountered large SD cards with cluster size other than 32 kB, so no need to reformat.
Windows doesn't "know" it's an SD card, so it might do formatting based on other disk access prerequisites. For NAND Flash, having the clusters aligned is best.
Some SD card manufacturers have their own SD card format utilities, try SanDisk.

Deve.

Don't use the boot updater if you already have boot 1.30 or 1.32!
The unaligned cluster message is a warning about the format of the card.
All cards delivered with DrumIt have 32 kB clusters all starting at x * 32 kB, aligned at multiples of their own size that is. This is for optimizing the audio playback.
All changes to the memory format are at the users own risk.

Deve.

Hi.
DrumIt Six is not registered yet, so please make one.
Deve.

Hi.

There still seem to be struggles with the hihat open-closed range. Here's a test sound which has a voice saying "0" when open to "10" when closed. A foot splash will say "pedal".

www.2box.se/downloads/HiHat0to10pedal.dsnd

If the calibration is ok, you should be able to get all 11 positions (0 to 10) when hitting the hihat while slowly closing the hihat.

Please test this to check if your hihat behaviour is ok. If you still can't get the right range of open to closed sounds, then that's probably due to the hihat sounds themselves. The DrumIt software automatically divides the open to closed range in as many steps as the sound "offers". Our factory hihats have between 2 (electric type) to 4 (acoustic type) levels.

Deve.

Here's a test sound which has a voice saying "0" when open unto "10" when closed.
A foot splash will say "pedal".

www.2box.se/downloads/HiHat0to10pedal.dsnd

If the calibration is ok, you should be able to get all 11 positions (0 to 10) when hitting the hihat while slowly closing the hihat.

Deve.

Hi again.

I tested the metronome (for the umpth time), it ticks just right.
Compared with an Android app (Mobile Metronome ver 1.2.3), just the same.

Also, would you like a higher pitch first tick better?

Deve.

Hi everybody.

Just back from Frankfurt.
I've read all feedback, thanks.
Will go through it and post an updated beta later.

Some replies:
- eq is once per kit, having one per channel would be way too much processor load.
- there will be a new zone assignment on the ENV page, so one can pick eg. bow from a cymbal sound if it's on a tom channel.
- cymbal bow and edge trig level were increased rel to cup trig level, worked fine with my ex of a production cymbal, however, there seem to be too much variation in the behaviour of cymbals, so I'll make it as 1.10 again.
- avg output level is indeed somewhat lower to allow for positive eq gain.
- switching channel with pads works as long as you don't press a channel button, if you do, the channel selection is locked until you press KIT or UNIT and go back to the page again (same as for 1.10).
- I'll look into the metr accuracy.
- indeed the metr plays diff layers (same as 1.10) however, some sounds have unfortunately too much "character" difference between adjacent layers, but it 1.20 behaves the same as 1.10 in that respect.
- XTRIG is mainly to solve pad-to-pad crosstalk.

Deve.

Hi.

Wednesday the Frankfurt Music Messe will open. There we will show the new OS 1.20. I thought I give you a beta preview. Please download here:

www.2box.se/Downloads/drumit120m.bin

Make sure you read the changes file first:

www.2box.se/Downloads/OS_1.20m_beta.pdf

Also, please leave suggestions in this (!) thread. I've followed the wish list and I know there are lots of things left to do. More after the messe.

Enjoy,

Deve.

ps. Please note that at startup it will display 1.11, that's because it's not a full 1.20 yet.

Hi.

The layers should each be recorded at the original level it sounded when hit. NO NORMALIZE HERE.
Then they are put into a dsnd with the top layer normalized and the rest at the original relative level with respect to the top layer.
This is how our Sound Editor uses each wav file to build a dsnd file. You can see how it sorts the layers by level.
So, yes, the MORE original layers, the LESS machine gunning because the playback engine in the unit alternates between those layers nearest the trigger level.
You can change this behaviour with the LAYER parameter:

- Fixed, a certain trigger level will always start the same layer which
best matches the trigger level amplitude.
- Variable (default), a certain trigger level will start a semi-random layer as
long as it is close to the trigger level amplitude. This allows for a
very natural response.
- Top, any trigger level will start the top most layer.
In all 3 cases, the resulting layer amplitude will be as the trigger
amplitude.

Deve.

Ok. Seems the safest to use a new SD card.
But how did your card get formatted in 2 partitions at all?
Since the dawn of the universe, there has been no drive which has repartioned itself, I can assure you...
So what / who has fooled around with your SD card?

Deve.

Stop stop.
Incredibly enough you got 2 partitions on the sd card.
The small one seems to be the first and that's the one the boot program loads the OS from. So first you have to repartition the drive to one single partition. Right click on My Computer and choose Manage. There's a Disk item. I don't have a pc at hand now, but there you can repartitipn and format the sd card.
Then write back all the files.
Deve.

Hi.
What sd card do you have?
Your pc can't possibly crash by just putting the card in, or?
Oterwise right click on the card and choose format.
Don't select quick format. Use fat32 32 kB cluster.
This must work...

Hi Peter.
What ser number do you have?
We had unfortunately a batch of bad SD cards between 1050 and 1559.
In that case, see
http://www.2box.se/Pages/sd-procedure.html

Otherwise, does the unit still appear as USB drive when you start it in USB mode?
See this
http://www.ehow.com/how_2063795_format-hard-drive-mac-os.html
but choose FAT32, 32 kB cluster.

Now copy back all files and make sure the OS (DrumIt110.bin) and settings file (DrumIt.dkit) end up on the root (the topmost folder) on the DrumIt drive.

Deve.