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#82
I don't think spanner is on this forum, so I thought I would put a link to an ad he is running for a 2Box module over at vdrums.com  ... good deal if someone is looking for a 2Box module. If I didn't already have both my modules I would be trying to talk him into shipping outside the UK ...  :) J
http://www.vdrums.com/forum/showthread.php?70406-2box-module-virtually-new&p=593504#post593504
#83
OK, this one is Slap the drummer's idea. He was thinking about using Manfred's HH control box and having Hi Hat cymbals on the left and right sides of the kit. I already have Hi Hats on both sides of my kit, but since I have 2 Drumit Five modules I have used the A module for my main standard (left side) Hi Hat and used the B module with my stationary Hi Hat on the right side of my kit using fixed Hi Hat dsnd's for my right side stationary HH. After discussing Slap's idea for HH's on both sides of the kit using one HH input I decided to try it. In the pics you will see the splitter I put in the Cymbal side of Manfred's box. From that .... one TRS cable goes to the main HH cymbal and one goes to the other HH cymbal on the right side of my kit. It works well. I can control the HH open/closed transitions from the one pedal for both cymbals. My main HH on the stand moves like always, the stationary hat does not move up/down physically, but the sounds do respond to the HH control pedal. What that means is I now have one more input open to add my Stacked cymbal to the setup.

One little tidbit. If anyone uses 2 Drumit Five modules like me and decides to add a crash to a Hi Hat input instead of using it for a standard Hi Hat ...... If you plug a regular Piezo/Switch cymbal into the Hi Hat input you will only get 1 zone .... but if you use a Manfred HH box along with .....  and plug a Piezo/Switch cymbal into the Box and box into the module you will get 2 zones .... Bow and Edge sounds, no choke but both zones. The dsnds must have bow and edge sounds already in them if you want both zones, but it does work.
Here is the splitter under my HH pedal:
https://files.secureserver.net/0sGpR7fK2YvZsa
Main HiHat left of tom 1, 2nd (10 inch) stationary HiHat right of tom 4
https://files.secureserver.net/0stRzJcWa8eAeT
And my extra effect cymbal in my module B HH input (above octobans)
https://files.secureserver.net/0s5LJEMNMfTAQc
#84
These are the prototype cymbals I have used for testing my 2Box cymbal conversions. I have quite a variety. The crashes have full functionality: Bow, Bell, Edge and choke. The cymbals are in excellent condition, very nice looking and work as new. I will also be reassembling the matching 14" dual zone HH set this weekend and will add that to this ad when complete. You just need to add one of Manfred's 2Box HH control boxes to have a fully functional dual zone HH.
Contact me via Private message or at  dajmando@yahoo.com for shipping quote.

Pricing in U S dollars as follows:
Crashes (or Rides):
15": $115 SOLD
16": $115  SOLD
17": $120  SOLD
18": $125 ea. 1 left

Single zone Chinese and Splash:
14" Chinese: $95
6" Splash: $70

Stealth single or dual zone Wuhan Electronic Gong
18" Wuhan Stealth Electronic Gong: $120

This gong can be used as either single or dual zone, central piezo and piezo at edge. You just gotta have an electronic gong for the ultimate e kit! ;D No worries about available gong sounds in the module. You will find by lowering the pitch by several notches in the Drumit 5 module ...  a China cymbal sound makes a pretty convincing Gong! The acoustic noise is dampened quite well pretty quiet as far as noise.



#85
I have this extra Card. I have been using this card only as a copy/backup of the card I am using in my Drumit Five module. Since I don't need it anymore I thought I would offer it here. $43 US including Worldwide shipping. I still have just a few of the card extenders left, so if you need a card extender also it will be just $15 more, both in same pkg.... thanks for looking, Jerry SOLD TO IAN DOWN UNDER 8)
#86
I put together a little video demo of my Stealth Acrylic Blue kit all run through double Drumit Five modules. I've been busy making lots of changes to my setup including converting a Sabian XS-20 Super Cymbal set with my newest 2Box Stealth conversion kits. Plus I switched out the HPD-15 for an SPD-30..... Here's the link to a low resolution video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCAAHByhGnI
Thanks for taking the time ..... J
#87

Anticipating the arrival of my 2nd Drumit Five module Monday (thanks Graham), so I have been building some new sounds for the new 2Box module and I switched my Stealth kits again, (acrylics out of the bags and the Birdseye maple kit back in the bags ). The 2Box modules will run all my drums, cymbals, and lectrobans. My percussion section will be based around my HPD-15 for now, with the Alesis Trigger iO Xtra percussion pads MIDI'd into the HPD-15.

When I was starting to set up my blue acrylic lectrobans one of my monitor speakers and stand fell over, started the chain reaction and knocked over two of my lectrobans on their stand and cracked em to pieces. So, fortunately when you have a severe case of GAS like me, you have a few extra of everything! I had some extra tubing I never used .... so I built a couple medium sized replacements today.

#88
I forwarded this info to UC. Thought I would post this here. There was a pretty lengthy discussion on another forum (heated at times I must confess ;)) about using Toontrack samples to build dsnds for the 2Box DrumIt Five module. I received the official heads up from Chris Whitten today in a PM. So, as it concerns us here in particular I thought I would post it:



"Official response posted on Toontrack forum:


It has come to our attention that some of our customers are concerned about the legality of extracting Toontrack's samples and load them into E-drum brains. Therefore, we would like to take this opportunity to clarify our standpoint.

We create our products with the specific goal of enhancing the music-creating process. We offer our products to our customers with the hopes that our products will spark creativity and open up new possibilities. Therefore, please, go ahead and use our software, use our samples, and compose some amazing music and give some mind-blowing performances. That is what our products are there to do. We believe that taking samples from our software library and load them into E-drum brains would constitute the modification and creation of derivative works based on the product as a whole or in part as stated in our EULA. However, at this time we have decided to waive any objection we may have to this practice so long as it is limited to a single customer, owning the product that the samples are taken from and downloading clips into E-drum brains he or she may own. We may in the future decide otherwise, in which case we will disseminate a notice to our customers. We further ask that you respect the considerable time and effort taken in creating all our products, and refrain from taking samples from our library and disseminating these samples to other musicians and individuals.

Thank you for your support!
Toontrack Music"


It is clear above that one of the main concerns, if not The Main Concern is that Toontrack products/samples or Toontrack sample based dsnds do not get shared or passed along to others. And that is something I would also stress. Jerry
#89
your music / Ever Onward an Online music collab
July 07, 2011, 02:19:07 AM
This is one of the newest music collaborations I have worked on... I used the Vistalite kit that is my new Kit no. 1 in my 2Box module .... I used SD 2.0 Mtl Foundry to build my dsnds... This was just an audition and my own mix ... we have not started the real mixing yet.
http://weblogimages.com/dajmando/Ever%20Onward%20Jman%20Drums%202B.wma

Final version mix:
http://weblogimages.com/dajmando/ever%20onward%20argle%20mix.wma
Credits from Musicians Collaboration Studio:
lyrics                                              Johnny
guitars and Bass                              r4m
drums                                            Jman
strings                                            Neil
Mix                                                Argle
music, acoustic guitar, vocals          soulfrontier
#90


I decided to buy an extra couple of these for myself, but this time I could not find any of the extender cables for adding the SD slot to the exterior of the drum module from retail sellers. I only found larger quantities available from the factories. So I bought 20 of them.
The ones I have do not have a red light like in the photo (stock photo), but they are spring loaded and the card locks in place when you push it in. A nicer feature than the original one that I used on my module.

Like my title says, If you can't find one of these elsewhere to purchase I have some extras. $15 ea. USD. They are compact and light so shipping will be reasonable. Send me a PM with your location if interested... Thanks, Jerry

All the extras are now gone! Thank God! Now I won't be going to the Post Office 5 days a week!!! ;D ;D
#91
Just thought I would post this cause I have spent lots of duckits on several different 32GB SDHC cards for my 2Box module. I started with the Transcend 32GB (Blue One 20MB/S) ... then got an off brand that didn't even work... But my very Favorite is the Sandisk Extreme 32GB (30MB/S) card. I have had noticable improvement using this card.

Probably do to the larger size dsnds I have been filling my module with, I began to hear more noticable latency on the Trancend cards. That started me on a quest to get the very best response  that I can on my new sampled kits.... leeding me to the Extreme card. I have also found that some of my sampled dsnds were overkill, I reduced my splash, China, kick and HH transition dsnds from 99 hit samples to 49 or 33 depending on the instruments (a splash, or kick just doesn't need 99 hits IMO) and the resulting dsnds seem to perform equal but are much smaller.

To be fair, when I first got the Transcend 32GB cards I formatted them in Windows .... later learning that was prolly not the greatest idea. But I did go back and wipe em clean and use the right formatting tool to redo them, so did I hinder those cards' performance, not sure .... but they definitely do not perform equivalent to the faster Sandisk Extreme card. If anyone has a chance to compare the 2 I would be interested to see if your results are the same as I have found.

I also went a step further and bought the Sandisk Extreme Pro 32GB card thinking that since it is the fastest (45MB a second) it might be a noticable difference .... It wasn't, as a matter of fact my Extreme cards boot faster by a few seconds than the Extreme Pro, and I can notice no improvement in performance with the Extreme Pro.  So with both the Extreme and the Extreme Pro cards I experience no noticable latency now.

Thought I would put this info out here. Since I already spent handfulls of cash on this quest, maybe the next guy can save a little from my experience .... J
#92
I've been continuing to revamp my kits in the module. I now have moved the kits I have built/loaded into the module to the first 10 spots. This was recorded on a Kodak Zi8 vid camera, just a stereo line out feed from my mixer run flat, no extra processing, eq, etc. What you hear is basically what I hear when I sit down to play... I still have all the stock sounds in the 2Box module, but these kits have none of the stock module instruments in them ...

I'm normally not one to rave, but for me these are the best drum sounds I have ever experienced from a stand alone Edrum module (Strictly my own opinion based on the modules I have sat behind). I saw a recent Pearl promo boasting about the huge 128MB's or sound .... heck, my HH alone uses that ... My 32GB's of loaded memory actually allows for building a pretty intense drum kit!

Pretty large video as I demoed 10 kits ..... right click and save would probably be easiest especially if you don't have a blazing fast internet connection.... J
http://weblogimages.com/dajmando/My%201st%2010%20kits%20on%20my%202Box%20Module%20Small.wmv
#93
Building dsnd's can become quite an obsession! None of the drums or cymbals in the WMA linked below are stock sounds from the Drumit Five module. Excuse the crappy performance ... I just fooled around with no real forethought ... :-[ but I wanted to share a few of the kits I've built so far.
1st kit is the BIG vistalite kit I put together this morning.
2. kit with DW toms
3. kit based on the Camco Oaklawn toms
4. Gretsch toms
5. Big sounding kit with GMS toms
6. NDK Bop kit
7. NDK Rock kit

I used various snares I've built dsnds from. HH's, crashes, rides none of em are stock ... there is a couple crashes that sound too loud, those are from the Roland module, I meant to stick to the 2Box crashes, but forgot on a couple hits ... I forgot to adjust the volume (too loud!) .... everything else is in the Drumit Five module.

Some of the dsnd's are HUGE .... I picked up the Sandisk Extreme (Cls 10) 32GB SDHC card and that really does the job .... spendy, but I recommend it ... my module boots to the 1st kit in 10 seconds with that card, 13 seconds with my other brands .... and I hear no clicking or popping or latency problems even with those giant dsnds .... 5 to 10 times the size of the stock dsnds on many of mine.

Here's the WMA:
http://weblogimages.com/dajmando/New%20kit%20sounds%20in%20D5.wma
#94
So this is my results of my efforts of this weekend ... I hadn't really decided what direction this kit was going to take .... then I decided I wanted a Big sounding kit to start with .... so I decided to put together a kit that sounded over the top .... just to see what the 2Box could do with some good samples loaded to make a BIG sounding kit ... I did some quick calculations and this one is about 1.2GB .... that's just the kit in the 2Box ... I have 2 modules, but with the exception of the one small China sound, a Gong sound .... and my Alubell you hear a couple times .... everything else is the new kit in my 2Box module.

The kit plays quite smoothly ... no latency problems to speak of ... you can tell by the vid .... granted the kit plays more smoothly than I do

This is just the sounds taken from my mixer directly into my cheap little Zi8 camcorder... (I run all my direct audio outs from both modules to my mixer) So even without a higher quality recording you can tell ... I'm lovin this one .... Thanks for takin the time to look .....
A couple links ... the original was about 500MB ... so I reduced the quality for uploading .... In case you don't mind saving to the PC ... I put one up about 145MB ... the other is 72MB .... later, J
the smaller vid is the first link ...

http://weblogimages.com/dajmando/My%20Bigger%20Unit!%20reduced%20Resolution.wmv
http://weblogimages.com/dajmando/My%20Bigger%20Unit!%20medium%20I%20think.wmv
#95
A little video demo of the 1st NDK kit I put together in the Drumit Five module...
http://weblogimages.com/dajmando/2Box%20Drumit%205%20with%20NDK%20DSND%20instruments%20added%20Low%20Res.wmv
#96
These are the pads from the kit I bought. I am using my own drums and cymbals now so I do not need the stock pads. These are used but all in excellent condition and working as new. I will ship pretty much worldwide. I will quote shipping, just contact me via PM here or email me: dajmando@yahoo.com
Here is a folder with the high resolution pictures, 2 of the toms still have the plastic film over the 2Box label, the label is not scratched it is just the film you see:
http://weblogimages.com/dajmando/2Box%20pads%20FS.zip
Both HI Hats are like new condition and work perfect.

All Prices in US Dollars:
2 ea. 14" Cymbals @ $130 ea. Cymbals are GONE!
1 ea. 10" Toms @ $100 ea. ALL Toms Sold
1 ea. 12" Snare @ $120 Snare is SOLD
1 ea. 14" This is perfect for a larger tom! and has the mount for Kick drum. They are sold as Kick or for tom and can be used as either @ $200 Now $160 SOLD
2 ea.  Drumit Five Hi Hats Priced to sell @ $150 ea SOLD.
I also have one Tom mount/rack clamp @ $30 (I will only sell this in combination with one of the toms or snare) TOM MOUNT is Gone

#97
I think even those who do not believe in the death penalty would generally agree spammers gotta go!
Personally I lean toward the death penalty ;) ;D
#98
I bought my Drumit 5 used ... I have made a backup a couple times of the files in the module. There is one file .metadata_never_index  .... there is 0 KB .... seems like it might be a file pertaining to hooking up to a Mac .... but I am not sure ... I assume this is not an essential file ... anyone know? Do all the modules have that file?
#99
Anyone have favorites out of the Hi Hat sounds that sound good on the closed HH? Not sure if it is just me, but I find a lot of the HH's sound real nice open, especially completely open, but closed HH sounds sound like crap... not crisp and sizzly, but more like a crappy set of garage band hats, metalic stick noise .... I dialed through a bunch of the kits this eve .... I thought the HH in the Balanced Kit .. #74 sounded pretty nice closed, .... but most seemed Harsh to me ... Not music to my ears....
#100
OK .... so I took the easy route on this one. I robbed the jack/PCB from my Drumit Five Hi Hat and used it for my own Hi Hat conversion. Result is I have my 2 zone HH working with my Drumit 5 kit now. I installed a magnet on the bottom of my DW HH stand ... cool stand for this as the chain attaches via a screw/bolt ... so I replaced the standard screw with one an inch longer, inserted a spring magnet and lock nut. Put the D5 jack/PCB in a box, attached that to the stand base, used a stereo splitter to connect the module with the controller and my 2 zone HH cymbal .... The result is as I had hoped ... I have the same function on my own hat now as I had with the 2Box hat. Here are the pics:
https://files.secureserver.net/0fAGlc1C4tWdXv