Question About Various Pad Settings.

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Hello Rob/Community,

Although I just made some guesses that seem to be working pretty decent, I was wondering if I could receive some direction/info concerning the “pad type” I should select for a few different triggers.

1. Acoustic Style Kick Drum(like a Drum-tec Diablo).. Would this just be a “side sensor mesh”? Since the piezo is located towards the top rim of the kick head. And would it be best to have this selected as a mono input, or does that not really matter?

2/3.PDA100/120L-BK… or something like that. The baseline of my set was a Roland VAD306, and I don’t know how well known this is, but it seems like Roland has decided to go with a new trigger approach.
For the small 10in Tom, the head sensor is near the top rim and is using a cylinder foam piece(Im sure it doesn’t matter. I know its probably a no brainer to just choose Side Mesh Pad… But it seems like choosing the center Mesh Pad almost triggers better.
Now for the 12in Tom… This is using a trigger system of 3 head sensors that form close to an equilateral triangle around the mid area of the pad, and are all using a cone style foam. What pad setting do you recommend I go with here? Ive been mostly using the Center Mesh pad type and even POS seems to be picking up the location of hits accurately… just as accurate as my drum-tec snare is analyzed.

Seeing as these 3 pads have given me the most difficulty with achieving a consistent, comfortable playing experience, I thought maybe I could seek some advice.

Thank you,
-Kalin

[Rob]

1. Acoustic Style Kick Drum(like a Drum-tec Diablo).. Would this just be a “side sensor mesh”? Since the piezo is located towards the top rim of the kick head. And would it be best to have this selected as a mono input, or does that not really matter?

I think you've made a good choices here. eDRUMin uses a variable sampling rate, and setting the input to MONO frees it from having to sample the rim sensor, thus slightly improving throughput.

For the small 10in Tom, the head sensor is near the top rim and is using a cylinder foam piece(Im sure it doesn’t matter. I know its probably a no brainer to just choose Side Mesh Pad… But it seems like choosing the center Mesh Pad almost triggers better.

For the Center vs. Side mesh, assuming positional sensing and Hotspot Suppression are off, there is no difference in the processing.

Now for the 12in Tom… This is using a trigger system of 3 head sensors that form close to an equilateral triangle around the mid area of the pad, and are all using a cone style foam. What pad setting do you recommend I go with here? Ive been mostly using the Center Mesh pad type and even POS seems to be picking up the location of hits accurately… just as accurate as my drum-tec snare is analyzed.

Interesting. I don't have any pads here with sensor arrays. I'm actually surprised to hear that you are getting positional sensing to work with that pad. I have my doubts that it would be reliable when doing rolls or buzz rolls. At some point I'll get one of those pads in here and do some proper testing to see what kind of extra information can be gleaned from them.