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My DD4 toms work well with the 2box brain, but there's no rim (never been a tom-rim player myself anyway).

There you've got me - I've not yet hooked up my brain to my PC - haven't got a USB cable long enough (it would mean completely reshuffling my studio)....

So yeah, other than the CC change on the hihat, and the many tiny tinkerings with the threshold and gain settings etc, I'm pretty sure all the pads should be sending out the default MIDI signals.

Cheers
Tom

You know what, I think I'd get one either way

yeah, I reckon it's all or nothing with the orange rack

I think the whole rack should be orange!

Hmmm...


(quick and dirty mock-up)

It's certainly....proud!

my favourite color happens to be orange

Welcome tjemu! That's as good a reason as any I would say!

I started drumming about 20 years ago (omg!) on a crappy old kit that sounded terrible - that didn't help with the enthusiasm much, but once I could afford a better kit, I got more and more into it. I also found that using industrial over-the ear protectors really compressed the drum sounds and took the white noise of harsh cymbals away, and I got better a lot faster. I guess the point of the story is, if your drums sound good, you'll learn quick 

Yep, adding support for the kick on the middle sounds like a good idea to me.

I'm using seperate snare and HH stands, so I've got my rack set up with the two shorter bars doubled-up on the right hand side, supporting floor-tom, ride and brain and some DD4 bits. Does seem to add overall stability.

There always has to be someone who comes along and ruins everything with Science   

It's true, you're right, but I reckon it's nice to have seperate level control, and I personally like a little more juice than the brain pumps out

I've got my DD4 and 2box blended together into a mutant superbeast, but I've got to say, the difference in bit depth is really noticeable with them back to back, as is the stereo presence - I think realistically I'm probably only going to use the DDrum for triggering BFD2 from here on in...

Hi Medk
I've wedged a spent cigarette papers packet (no little bits ripped out of it I'll have you know) in between the foam ring and the mesh, as close to the rim as it will comfortably go...threshold is set to -36, gain to 7, still on Pad12, and to my ears it triggers beautifully - no unwanted retriggering, and ghost notes as quiet as I can play them. Haven't loosened the mesh at all.

I think one of the things 2box are working on for the next update is having more settings to play with in terms of seperate adjustments for the hats. Stay tuned!

My pleasure Alex


Edit: don't know if you saw the presets links I posted but ignore them, they were set up for use only with the DD4 hats and there were all sorts of clashes.

Just rebuilt a basic preset from scratch and I think I've figured out how to get the HH to work - I just read in the fxpansion forum that someone having trouble with a megadrum controller needed to set the HH to CC4 - so I tried that on my 2box brain (it was set to CC1) and things started to take shape...mucked around with tip, shank and pedal as per the youtube clip, and bingo!

(of course, it's too late at night for me to test it out )

Grab this file and stick it in your presets folder (makes it easier to find believe it or not)
C:\Documents and Settings\COMPUTERNAME\My Documents\FXpansion\BFD2\Presets

http://www.2box-forum.com/BFD2-presets/uc-2box-drumit-5-bfd2-preset.bfd2

Firefox on Windows XP seems to open this as a text file, so right-click and select "save as" or whatever you crazy Mac people have

Zoom over to BFD2 and click the "Load" button in the top right corner and select "Load BFD2 Preset"...

Just next to the search box in the pop up window there's a dark grey folder icon with an arrow in it (totally missed that before!)...

That pops up a regular file explorer, which by default should be looking in your Presets folder. You can select the downloaded *.bfd2 file  from there.

It's up to you if you import the file into the database - have a play with it first maybe. I guess you could always delete it later.

That should get you up and running - I'd be glad to know if this works for other poeple.

Good luck!
Tom

Hi Alex

I've started a BFD2 thread in the Setup forum...see you there!

I've communicated with Angus from FXPansion, and they are keen to see how things pan out with 2box too...

...We were talking at one point about building a dedicated \"mixdown\" mode in to BFD2 allowing people to product custom rendered kits for 2box (and Yamaha DTXtreme 4) brains, however that feature was shelved for now.

You can legally import BFD (1+2+expansions) samples from your own BFD2 in to your own 2box brain - however you cannot legally distribute them, even to others that own BFD2  and a 2box brain. If you or somebody else does make some 2box kits from BFD2 samples, would be good if you can send them to us - we can then redistribute them to other 2box + BFD2 owners on request.

...To be honest I think you'll find it much more useful to go through the tutorials below, because you'll learn more about BFD2 than if you just use someone else's map. The other thing is, because everyone needs to tweak their kits to their own taste, you might find that someone else's keymaps / presets actually sound terrible because of sensitivity and volume differences.

The other thing you'll probably find is that calibrating the hi-hat with BFD2 won't be 100% satisfactory just yet...I'm hopeful though that the forthcoming tweaks that Deve Loper is making to the hi-hat settings will help, and also I've put Bengt at 2box back in touch with the FXPansion crew, so maybe they can work something out *fingers crossed*

NeilC has found that using the Sabian hats in BFD2 have got him the best results.

Anyway, on with the tutorials...

Midi Mapping:

Hi hats:

Kit Inspector - parts 1 & 2

Mixing Drums:

Hope this helps - post your own BFD2 hints and tips here 

Finally a new Roland octapad
SPD-30

http://www.roland.com/products/en/SPD-30/

Wouldn't say no to one of those