Editing VEx kits?

[dschrammie]

So I have a TD-10 that I bought used and I start trying to learn stuff, so I fire it up and start going through the kits...they all have names of particular drummers, or specific sets (Like 80s Tama or something like that)...lo and behold, it has VEx kits...cool! They certainly sound better than the stock kits!
So I have a couple of cymbals connected and as I scroll through the various kits, I notice that the cymbal input seems to change the type of "voice" it's assigned for each kit...meaning that on one kit the cymbal input might be a splash, but on the next kit the very same cymbal input is a crash, or a china. Well...that will certainly get annoying. I'd like it to be consistent from kit to kit to kit. So what I'm wondering is if I can reassign things in the VEx kits without losing the data?
Any thoughts?

[OverLord]

There are all sorts of options. If you have a MIDI interface, I suggest you plop down some coin for VDrumLib and backup everything. You can then use VDrumLib to move things around.

You can also use the Copy/Exchange feature to trade instruments. I do this all the time with VEx kits to get them to the right trigger.

On the TD-20, however, it doesn't also move all the effects settings, so you may have to tweak a few things.

[dschrammie]

Yeah, I have the older Layla that I still need to install and connect (the 20 bit version). I'd actually thought I was up sh** creek with that card, didn't realize that they actually have XP drivers for it (thanks Ron!). So I have to get that up and running, but once I do that MIDI shouldn't be a problem. Now, actually figuring out how to do this stuff once it's up and running, that's another issue! Guess I've got some reading to do on how to work the program, but it sounds like VDrumLib is the way to go. Thanks Robotron...I mean Voltron...I mean Sceptreman (remember that one?!)...


Thanks Michael. ;)

[evil1rox]

I'd actually thought I was up sh** creek with that card...


Oh you mean "****" creek.

-It's ok to say here. ;)

+1 for VDrumLib.. easy to use and worth the $$$

Ryan

**I removed one of your Wuffie for remembering "Spectreman"...oh ****...that means I remember it too...

[dschrammie]

Hahaha! I just realized I spelled it wrong..."Spectreman", not "Sceptreman"...
That would be a different 12 story robotic mutant smashing superhero...one that uses a large sword instead of karate chops. Hmmmm...I wonder if that was Voltron's original name?

And how can you take a whuffie away for remembering it?! C'mon, that's gotta be worth giving whuffies, not taking them!
In fact, while we're on childhood day-time television, how 'bout these:
Go-Go Gophers
Tennessee Tuxedo
Klondike Kat
Great Space Coaster
Banana Splits
or (one of my personal favorites as a child) Battle of the Planets
;D

P.S. -1 Whuffie for you...for unjustifiably removing a whuffie from me...and for spelling Whuffie wrong! :P ;D

[evil1rox]

It's funny but just last week I was sitting at my desk and started singing "Great Space Coaster".... but I HATED that show as a kid!!

...now lets not start a W(h)uffie war here...

I am the guy that held W(h)uffie ransom at one point... ;D ;)

LOL

Ryan

[fignewton]

Gforce!!!

What was up with the kid with the speech impediment. :-\

[dschrammie]

Heh...yeah, I actually hated Great Space Coaster as well...yet I watched it for some reason. ??? I'm still convinced that the chick keyboard player and the drummer were doin' it.

GForce...LOVED IT! To me that was the beginning of great Japanese anime...though I don't know if Speed Racer was before or after...they were about the same time, and Speed Racer was more popular, but I always liked Battle of the Planets better.
Don't know what was with the kid. It was (obviously) originally a Japanese cartoon and there were some things lost in translation, and I'm sure some of the plots were made more "American appropriate".

So back to the original question....
is the only connection that I'll use to communicate between my computer and the module the MIDI connection? And once I change things around in the kits, do I always have to have that connection and the computer turned on, or will the reassigned voices be stored in the module?

[ghostman]

Heh...yeah, I actually hated Great Space Coaster as well...yet I watched it for some reason. ??? I'm still convinced that the chick keyboard player and the drummer were doin' it.

GForce...LOVED IT! To me that was the beginning of great Japanese anime...though I don't know if Speed Racer was before or after...they were about the same time, and Speed Racer was more popular, but I always liked Battle of the Planets better.
Don't know what was with the kid. It was (obviously) originally a Japanese cartoon and there were some things lost in translation, and I'm sure some of the plots were made more "American appropriate".

So back to the original question....
is the only connection that I'll use to communicate between my computer and the module the MIDI connection? And once I change things around in the kits, do I always have to have that connection and the computer turned on, or will the reassigned voices be stored in the module?


It's my understanding that you are doing a data-dump via SysEx messages. so, once you do the load from the 'puter to the TD-10, you can disconnect the TD-10 and go rock out. you can edit everything on the 'puter, but nothing will change until you do the data dump again. Hope that helps..

[fignewton]

when i have used it.
The MIDI to USB connection and once i commit a change it stays, unless I edit it from the Module.

[OverLord]

C'mon - who didn't love Gary Gnu with all the Gnews?

We never got Spetreman around here - just Ultraman and Johnny Socko. And, of course, GForce.

[fignewton]

Speaking of Gforce.
It came on about 3ish 4ish in the afternoon. I would sprint home after school to watch it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FoO5H_UKCrw