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2010-02-03 by Chris Barnhart

Keith,

Thanks for the report... what kind of specs does your laptop have? I did buy a usb midi cable but haven't unpackaged it yet. I wanted to make sure I could figure out how to trigger samples via MIDI first. What I have done so far is get Reaper and load up the ReaDrums FX Template. I plugged some nice samples I found on the internet into the sampler, mapped them to the Virtual MIDI keyboard and played them that way. They sound pretty good good and you can modify them quite a bit with ReaSamplomatic. Plus all the effects bundled in Reaper you can add. I also see an fx that randomizes the sample from several so the hits aren't all identical. I'm just leery that my laptop will have too much latency. That was yesterday so your post is timely.

Chris

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2010-02-03 by keith1200rs

Chris,

My laptop is a 1.66GHZ Centrino Duo T2300 with 500MB RAM.  An email from sjdrummerboy suggested at least 2GB RAM and a dual core.  I can certainly see how that would be required.  Mine was breaking up occasionally (and was running put of virtual memory), but worked enough to get an idea of what it might sound like.  Latency was actually fairly low (it was playable).  I was using the free ASIO driver with my motherboard sound & a cheapo MIDI to USB interface I already had.  A proper setup should fix any latency issues and improve the sound quality I guess.

I was really just curious, although I did like what I heard, so could see it as a way of getting more and better sounds than my DTXpress, although the cost of a new computer may make it cheaper to just buy either a new DTXpress or DTXtreme module.

It might be worthwhile downloading the BFD2 demo - I had too much latency with Reaper but managed OK with BFD2.  I would have tried ezdrummer but they have no demo version.  It comes highly recommended though.

Keith.

Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

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