Sounds eerily close to my setup. A Surge kit with the snare moved to floor tom and replaced with a Crim2 12" snare, plus two extra 8" alesis toms and an extra alesis cymbal.pumpkinking wrote: ↑Sun Nov 21, 2021 5:30 pmI have tested two Alesis e-drum kits (Surge and Crimson II) with a single eDrumIn 10. As such I've been able to try out all of the Alesis components across the two kits through the eDrumIn module. Below are the tested components and my notes.
Summary: all of the Alesis Surge and Crimson II triggers and controllers work properly with the eDrumIn module.
Kit contents tested:
Surge kit:
8” dual-zone pad tom (center/rim)
8” single-zone pad kick (center)
10” dual-zone pad tom/snare (center/rim)
10” dual-zone cymbal (bow/choke)
10” single-zone hi-hat (bow)
DMHat hi-hat control pedal
Crimson II kit:
DMPad 12” dual-zone cymbal (bow/choke)
DMPad 12” single-zone hi-hat (bow)
DMPad 14” triple-zone ride (edge/bow/bell - single connector)
8” dual-zone pad tom (center/rim)
8” single-zone pad kick (center)
10” dual-zone pad tom (center/rim)
12” dual-zone pad snare (center/rim)
DMHat hi-had controller pedal
Comments:
- setup the 12” snare (single TRS connector) for multi-zone with eDrumIn and it works fairly well
- setup the 14” ride (single TRS connector) with 3-zone cymbal support and while the bell trigger is solid, the edge trigger is picked up as bow infrequently, and the bow trigger is sometimes picked up as edge or bell. This is likely an issue in the triggers, not in eDrumIn, as it has degraded over time with playing (and the bow velocities are highly variable with some hot spots on the cymbal)
- setup one of the 8” toms for multi-zone, and I’m somewhat happy with the support (even though I do not use it much as the 8” head is pretty small)
- since there are two hi-hat controller pedals between the two kits, I was able to use a single eDrumIn 10 to configure dual hi-hats in Superior Drummer 3 (not sure I could do this with the two Alesis controllers)
I just received the ED10 and have no problems with setting up pads and the interface features in general, but I'm not sure what the best way to map the pads so Addictive Drums 2 can match them up properly. I think I get that you need to send the right notes from the control software but I'm not that fluent in MIDI so I'm not sure exactly how.
The control software shows the triggers as notes with numbers and ADD2 sees keys. I'm also not familiar with the wiring type for alesis pads whether they use Yamaha wiring or not. I'm so far guessing, not.
I know this is entry level stuff and I'll probably figure it out but was hoping to save some time and headache if there are any tips for mapping a custom kit using alesis pads. To be honest, I thought it would simply be setting up all the kitpieces in the control software (which I've done) and then just having ADD2 midi-learn whatever the ED10 is sending.