Attention Roland geniuses who won't laugh at me!

[Ronnie Balz]

I'm a Yamaha guy but I'm got my own DYI project going and not ready yet to confront building a Keith Raper circuit to get my switching happening. So going piezo/piezo and I'm building a modified cake-pan design (kudos to ChromeBoy and JmanWorld) and using a borrowed Roland TD-20. Okay, here's where you laugh at me: my head piezo triggers the head, my rim piezo is triggering a rim shot -- on every kit I choose. I want it to trigger a cross-stick. I've tried to figure it out but haven't been able to. What's the secret? Or, what page in the manual can I find that? Thanks!

[perceval]

Sorry, don't know about Roland, but you know you can DIY your own switch for Yamaha?

[Ronnie Balz]

Sorry, don't know about Roland, but you know you can DIY your own switch for Yamaha?

Yeah, that's the Keith Raper circuit I'd mentioned. Just trying to wrap my head around piezo/piezo before I start getting into that!

[perceval]

Nope, not the KR ....

Did it with my module. Works much better than my attempts with a KR circuit. Now, if there was a real production of a switch, that'd be amazing, but as DIY, it's not that difficult.
http://www.vdrums.com/forum/forum/ad...m-cymbal/page2

[BarT]

my rim piezo is triggering a rim shot -- on every kit I choose. I want it to trigger a cross-stick. I've tried to figure it out but haven't been able to. What's the secret? Or, what page in the manual can I find that? Thanks!

Assign to the rim a sound marked "*X" on Page 92 and increase XStick Thrshld as on Page 49.

Or assign to the rim one of the sounds named "xxxxxx Xstik" (127-141) on Page 92 which don't include a rimshot.

Bruce

[Ronnie Balz]

Nope, not the KR ....

Did it with my module. Works much better than my attempts with a KR circuit. Now, if there was a real production of a switch, that'd be amazing, but as DIY, it's not that difficult.
http://www.vdrums.com/forum/forum/ad...m-cymbal/page2

Interesting, thanks. If you think you're clueless with electrical (as you posted in that thread), I'm REALLY clueless! All I need to hear is the word "resister" and I glaze over so what seems simple to you guys it daunting to me for sure. But heck, maybe I'll give it a try when I get time.

[Ronnie Balz]

Assign to the rim a sound marked "*X" on Page 92 and increase XStick Thrshld as on Page 49.

Or assign to the rim one of the sounds named "xxxxxx Xstik" (127-141) on Page 92 which don't include a rimshot.

Bruce

Thanks BarT. Will check it out.

EDIT: Well I fiddled with those settings -- changing XStick Thrshld didn't change anything, THEN I noticed the "XSTICK" button in the MAIN WINDOW staring me right in the face. D'oh! Engage that, you get the cross stick, no rim shot. Exactly what I want. So I just had to roll through all the presets and turn that on, now I'm good to go. It's always the simplest things that trip me up! Okay, thanks all.