First Impressions

[Mylo]

Happy to see more satisfied customers. How do you find the positional sensing and the hotspot suppression features, if I may ask?

I believe for these features to appear you have to select a pad type of ‘Mesh Center Piezo’. Also the Scan has to be above 3.0 or (according to the manual) these features either disable (hot spot suppression) or may be less than performant (positional sensing).

[Rob]

I've been tweaking these features a lot in the past few weeks. There were several bug early on that were preventing consistent and reliable performance. Currently, hotspot suppression need about 3 ms of scantime. I should be able to reduce that to about 2.5 ms in the future, but for now it's working great and if it's not broke, don't fix it.

In regards to positional sensing, it'll work right down to 2ms of scantime. I've changed the implementation a bit recently to provide more consistent results over a wider range of pads. There's probably room for improvement, but I still have a couple other more important issues I need to resolve first.

[Exci]

Happy to see more satisfied customers. How do you find the positional sensing and the hotspot suppression features, if I may ask?

I believe for these features to appear you have to select a pad type of ‘Mesh Center Piezo’. Also the Scan has to be above 3.0 or (according to the manual) these features either disable (hot spot suppression) or may be less than performant (positional sensing).

Are you using a different pad type, then?

[Exci]

I've been tweaking these features a lot in the past few weeks. There were several bug early on that were preventing consistent and reliable performance. Currently, hotspot suppression need about 3 ms of scantime. I should be able to reduce that to about 2.5 ms in the future, but for now it's working great and if it's not broke, don't fix it.

In regards to positional sensing, it'll work right down to 2ms of scantime. I've changed the implementation a bit recently to provide more consistent results over a wider range of pads. There's probably room for improvement, but I still have a couple other more important issues I need to resolve first.

Here's my current issue with PS on my TD-12: the right side of my snare has more or less proper PS (the indicator on the module is in the middle when hitting half way to the edge), but on the left side I have to almost reach the edge for the indicator to start moving away from the center. I would imagine it has to do with uneven head tension but the pitch sounds the same to me. Unfortunately I don't have a tension watch to make it 100% accurate.

[Mylo]

Happy to see more satisfied customers. How do you find the positional sensing and the hotspot suppression features, if I may ask?

I believe for these features to appear you have to select a pad type of ‘Mesh Center Piezo’. Also the Scan has to be above 3.0 or (according to the manual) these features either disable (hot spot suppression) or may be less than performant (positional sensing).

Are you using a different pad type, then?

I completely misunderstood your question... how do I find these features as in how do I like them... got it now.

Hot spot feature works great. You can actually see and hear it working if you leave the software running.

Positional Sensing has always been a crap shoot for me. I never really got it working right with my MegaDrum. When I hit dead center I’d randomly get an off center sound. I just spent the evening playing with eDRUMin PS and experienced the same thing. But this time I really spent some time troubleshooting. I now believe it is the trigger itself. I have the Jobeky AI center mounted trigger. If I hit right above the trigger support bar it goes straight to a center hit no matter where I hit the head.

[Rob]

Send me data. I would love to see what's happening.

[Mylo]

Send me data. I would love to see what's happening.

I started another thread for this discussion. I think I explained much better over there. I’ll go put them together right now.

[Mylo]

Well I ordered a second eDRUMin. That should give you an indication of how I like it. There’s probably a couple of more units in my future.

[Mylo]

Experimented with my Jobeky 20” 3-zone ride tonight. My experience setting up the ride on the MegaDrum was not pleasant. Several hours and a two page thread on the MegaDrum forum. Five days later I had it working.

Today was much better. Plugged in the bow/edge and tried bell sense but it didn’t really work well with the Jobeky cymbal. So I went ahead and plugged in the bell. Went through the calibration and had my ride working in about five minutes.

Works for me.

But let’s talk about hot spot suppression on cymbals. These Jobeky cymbals are very hot over the sensor. After calibration when I hit right over the sensor with a moderate strike I get a 127 velocity. If I hit just to the right or left of the sensor with the same moderate strike the velocity drops to about 60-65. It would be cool if I could even this out so I can get similar dynamics across the entire cymbal just like I would with a drum.

[Mylo]

Another update...

First, 5 stars for support. Thanks Rob for working out my positional sensing issues even when I was letting you off the hook.

Second, positional sensing is now working on my snare. It is pretty exciting to have all the dynamics working on the snare. Center, off center, edge, x-stick and rim shot.