Can the drum track do odd time signatures? Can you change tempo/sig in the same track or are you limited to 1 tempo/sig?
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If you are using the drum samples that come included on the USB drive that ships with the unit, the answer is NO. Those are static drum samples at certain bpm time signatures that can only be imported. If however you are using the onboard drum machine on the unit, the answer is YES. It behaves very similar to a standalone drum machine like the alesis sr16, in that you can control the time signature and bpm for each drum track you create. Keep in mind that the drum sounds are "just ok", mothing really spectacularly professional sounding. But they sound alright when you process with onboard eq, compression and effects and if nothing else its great for scratch padding and laying down ideas. Hope that helps
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Hey, I have these drums, I'm not sure about additional triggers, you have two audio outs, one for headset and one for output good for recording on the computer through the mic input and an audio in. You also get a MIDI output, and if you have a MIDI to USB cable then you can connect the drumset to your computer and use it as a MIDI controller for your virtual kit, you just have to change some settings on the drums, I never used it this way, but the user's manual has a section dedicated to this function.
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If you are refering to dual zone triggering (i.e. using a Y cable with 2 ddrum acoustic bass triggers) Plus you can program each input to what ever drum you want it to be. I use mine with a Alesis DM5.
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Hi, yes to some extent, you can use "Layer" mode to simultaneously play two sounds at once, any sound can be stacked with another sound from a different category bank. But there is n o way to adjust the balance between layered sounds, so that is a bit of a bummer. Let us know if you have any other questions we can answer for you! The Midi Store
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Yes you can, tapping the side buttons changes the track while holding changes the volume. I think pause/play is the front button.
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Yes. You can record on one individual track at a time, or two, or three, or up to eight simultaneously. As an example you could record a drum track on track one, and then go back and record a guitar track over top of that on track two. This is the general idea of multi track recording.
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This drum kit is not a tunable drum kit. The "electronic brain" is what tunes these drums, so you do not need a key.
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Yes, but it's not really a very good interface for multitracking. It's basically EXPLICITLY for guitar. If you want to multitrack drums or something you CANNOT do that with this. There isn't enough analog I/O (unless you have a mixer with enough channels and at least 2 buses to send those channels out to Pro Tools. But if you have a drum sampler or virtual instrument, yep. Works just fine. It's a full fledged interface.
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Yes, but with one catch - If you have the snare and bass drum routed to the same input, you wont be able to hit them at the same time and have them both register. Perhaps if you paired up pads that would be less likely to be hit at the same time... but in my experience, playing drums really doesn't work like that...
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You could use any mixer/interface with multiple XRL inputs. To record each input as a separate track (which you will want to do to get a better quality drum recording), you'll want a USB or firewire interface. For a cheap multitrack recording program, you can look into Reaper, and some interfaces even come with their own programs. I hope this helps! Best of luck.
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all the drums are double trigger, head and rim. I hate hitting the rim by accident and triggering a chime, etc... so I bought splitters that split the stereo input into two mono inputs, and ended up nearly doubling the set. it was awesome until the tornado hit. I miss that set.
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I think if your're in playlist mode you can but i think once youre playing a track you can only toggle through tracks.
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I'm not sure if you can download addition backing tracks. You can use jam tracks of your own through an IPOD. I use both ways and it works fine. Go to the Roland website and you can download the manual to see if it can do what you are asking. Hope this helps. It is a nice unit. I think this is their second generation eband unit. I'm sure the next one will be even nicer.
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not sure about what drums you have , my set has an input on the the drum "brain" that accepts an input from mp3,etc.
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George, there are a number of apps that record multiple tracks.... It should work just fine. Are you going to mic your drums? You can likely only record one track at a time. If you are doing midi you should be able to record multiple tracks at a time but again that will depend on the app you choose.
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Yes, with a certain display mode. I use the display mode that shows the running time of the track and the current time of day. There is another one that shows the name of the currently playing track but not the time of day.... might be third option. Can't remember.
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There is only one input. I play electronic drums and use a direct box for that input. And my vocal I just use my monitor mix on the rolls from the main mixer. Works fantastic. I totally turn off the drums on my monitor mix that's coming from the main mixer and use the input volume that is on the rolls.