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Old 01-07-2008, 03:25 PM   #1
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Default Use Rock Band drums as a quick and dirty MIDI drumset?

I got Rock Band for Christmas, and since the connectors are USB, I thought I'd see what happens when I plug the drum set into my PC. Well, Windows recognizes it right away as a game pad.

So now how do I convert that into MIDI signals, and how do I get Reaper to recognize those signals. Any ideas?
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Old 01-07-2008, 07:25 PM   #2
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Default Drum/MIDI mapping software (Freeware)

It seems that this would be perfect for that

http://www.edrummonitor.com

It's freeware that will allow you map your midi drums to midi notes. It even has a learn funtion and works with all types of input including joystick.


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Old 01-07-2008, 09:51 PM   #3
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Hmmmm, I played with this for a while tonight. You've definitely got me on the right path, but something is still missing.

I set up a file in this program you mentioned to convert game pad button presses to MIDI notes. That part seems to work.

Then I downloaded a program called MIDI Yoke that basically acts like a virtual MIDI cable. That way I can send the data from the program to Reaper. That part KIND OF seems to work.

When I set up a track in Reaper to take input from MIDI Yoke, it looks like it's getting input, but it won't trigger any sounds in any of my VSTi's (I'm trying LoopAZoid, for the record)

I'll admit I'm in a little over my head when I try working too much with setting up MIDI paths, but it SEEMS like this should work... yet it doesn't.
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Old 01-08-2008, 03:37 AM   #4
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While I 've never done exacly what you're trying to do, for my own virtual midi routing I had more success with MapleMIDI than with Midi Yoke. Give it a try:
http://www.hurchalla.com/Maple_driver.html
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Old 01-08-2008, 07:01 AM   #5
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Midi Yoke works a treat for me - in fact I can't imagine how it wouldn't work.
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Old 01-08-2008, 10:13 AM   #6
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I'm sure you've done this,
but here are some steps to try:


in the edrum program set the output to midiyoke1

in reaper make sure that the midiyoke1 is setup in reaper preferences as a midi input

make sure you are monitoring midiyoke1 (set the input to midiyoke1:ALL channels)

record enable the track
and make sure you are monitoring it

you should see midi activity on the track when you press the joystick.

you might just not have the mapping down properly.
I would recommend that you press record and while recording press the buttons, then double click the midi track to see what notes (and what midi channel it's being transmitted on)

hope this helps.
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Old 01-08-2008, 12:43 PM   #7
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The mapping stuff I've done, but I haven't tried looking at the specific notes. I'll try that tonight.


I actually do get a signal (the little red bar) from MIDI Yoke 1 in Reaper. It just doesn't trigger any sounds in my VST
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Old 01-08-2008, 10:33 PM   #8
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Well, it worked. The problem was me and my far-too-small knowledge of MIDI.

When I was creating the conversion in Edrum Monitor, I was choosing the wrong kind of MIDI tracks... I was creating control tracks instead of tracks that create notes. As soon as I changed to the right kinds of tracks it works.

Latency is a little off, but I think that could be improved.

At this point I'm not sure how useful this will be, but it's cool that I got it working. I'm definitely going to try to play around with it.
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Old 09-10-2008, 10:46 AM   #9
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Here's a sneek peek at the new eDrumMonitor 3.0 now know as eTrigger



click here to see FULL image
http://www.edrummonitor.com/Images/eTrigger.jpg
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