PD-125 with DD505...

[sciomako]

Hi,

I have a DD505 e-kit (which supports only single snare trigger) and am in the process of replacing it with Roland. I've received my new PD-125 before getting the module. So, driven by curiosity, I plugged it into the DD505. And... it didn't work. When I struck the mesh, I could only hear very faint sound. Sounds like it was not amplified.

I don't know anything about the electronic inside the v-drum. But given that cable is just a stereo jack and the v-drum has a rim sensor, a mesh sensor and a position sensor, am I right that the signal is somehow encoded or multiplexed?

Could someone explain why it didn't work and whether it is possible to get it to work?

Thanks
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John

[BarT]

The signal is not encoded or multiplexed, and there is no separate position sensor.

Did you try a mono cable? (TS only, not TRS.)

Bruce

[sciomako]

I tried both the mono cable that came with DD505 and the stereo cable that came with the PD-125. Same result. The PD-125 sounded extremely soft.

p.s. No separate position sensor? How does the pad tell the module the position?
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John

[BarT]

Did you try increasing gain (sensitivity) at [kit] + [voice/volume] for the snare?

Positional sensing reads the waveform from the head piezo: Positional Sensing

Bruce

[sciomako]

Bruce,

Thanks for the reference.

Gain control on DD505 is very limited. The PD-125 was so soft on DD505 that it couldn't be balanced by altering the gain. (It's like plugging a headphone to the line-out of your PC by mistake instead of the headphone out, if you know what I mean.) And I'm wondering why the signal from the Roland mesh pad is so much weaker than a cheap rubber pad... Doesn't make sense...