I did the same thing for my apartment-sized kit, but I bought loose drum pads at music go round and went to the hardware store to build the mounts lol.
I had originally bought it just to use the 4 as a little drum kit but when I realized I could add 2 more pads, the solution became immediately obvious to me. Cheers.
Can you think of a tune that would be suitable? I tend towards some pretty complicated stuff (hence all the drums!) but if you have any suggestions, maybe I can try!
I bought the 8 pad version but it’s still in the box because I’m travelling and had no time to mess around either it yet. I’m planning to get rid of all those horrendous sounds and load new decent ones or use Ableton Live as a source.
Hi Kevin! I'm glad I found your channel. It's been a big help for me. I bought the Alesis Nitro kit and just got the Simmons DA2112 amp. Do you know the cord that I need to be able to plug in my Nitro kit to the amp? Thank you 😊
Hi there! I’m using a TRS splitter to add a Roland PD-8A and a Roland KD-7 but I keep getting the same sound on both external triggers. Do you know why would that happen?
2 possibilities - it’s not actually a splitter but instead a duplicator, or the brain has the same sound programmed for the pad and rim. Look at the button lights on the brain when you hit the pad. They can tell you what combo is being triggered.
I found that for samplepad 4 it is not possible to fix the velocity of each pad for MIDI use. I wanted to reduce the noise of the pad when I strike it so that any light strike will send out max velocity to the midi output to Addictive Drums.. Am I right on this? I am only using this a a MIDI controller.
Hi Kevin, thanks for the tutorial , I have a question...I know I can change the drum sounds to make a usable 4 piec micro gigging kit, but I don't know how to store my kit preferences ..the machine reverts to factory settings once turned off..I have an empty SD card in the card slot but really can't figure out how to just store what's already available...any help would be greatly appreciated...
You can store the kits by first pressing cursor down and right at same time for 2 seconds. Page 9 - 7132afa424c2f1a2ab6d-54d68a14e2e7c1f76563a2d8c3e9fd82.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/1489/documents/SamplePad%204%20-%20User%20Guide%20-%20v1.2.pdf
Can you import a backing and click track to separate pads, trigger them at the same time, and route the output so backing comes out of the mains and click out of the headphone out?
No, but unless you need your backing track to be stereo you could have the sample saved with the backing track to panned to one side, click to the other, and send each mono to their respective destinations.
I have a question I’m starting to implement electronics to my acoustic drum set. And just wondering on how I would connect the sample pad to the board so it could come out the PA system
Great video, Kevin. How are you using the SamplePad in conjuction with the electronic drum kit? Is the SamplePad connected to the module of the drum kit?
The audio software on the Mac can listen for more than 1 midi source, so both the Nitro brain and the SamplePad are plugged in to the Mac via usb and sending independent midi signals.
@@BustingsticksWithKW Hey, Kevin. Thanks for the response. I'm a Windows guy, but I'm sure it works in a similar fashion. I've got a Yamaha DTX502 drum kit. I know that I could input my 502 module and SamplePad into my Desktop with no issue. Or input both into a monitor speaker system or PA for Live situations. I'm trying to find out if I can basically attach the mono output of the SamplePad and go into one of the inputs of the 502. Treat it like a drum pad and be able to use the sounds that are included with the Samplepad.
Would it be possible to use the Alesis SamplePad 4 to trigger a drum machine via MIDI? You'd obviously need to use the USB out on the SamplePad and probably some kind of USB hub perhaps. I'm thinking specifically with the Elektron Digitakt which does have a USB port.
It’s not as dynamic as say a Nitro Mesh for sure, but you should be able to save any parameters for defaults. It’s a 2 button press to save. You also could try to add the sd card option - that greatly adds functionality for a minimum price.
Hi, Thanks a lot for sharing this video really helpful without a doubt, I have the sample pad 4 as well and in my case I use the "trig in" to use a kick drum trigger (with Roland RT30K) but I would like to split that to have kick drum and a "bass drop" on a different pad, can you show me how to split on the sample pad? Thanks a lot :)
Thanks a lot for your response : (I bought one stereo splitter but both, external kick and the the pad brings the same sound... can you help me ?@@BustingsticksWithKW
If you mean if it’s noisy on the output? No. If you hear anything on my video it’s likely from my portable mixer that I use to record. I had a power supply issue I didn’t notice until it was too late…
@a-1151 As long as it's a regular trigger pad, I don't see why not. I'm not aware of any fancy positional sensing bass drum pads out there - they tend to be pretty simple in practice!
Sympathetic, but I still don't know how good or bad the sounds are. I don't need to be a super drummer, I'm "just" into home recording. I have no ambition to impress with playing technique, just to support the melody, but the sound used should be bearable for a critical listener...
The top two pads are annoyingly insensitive. You really need to give them a whack to get a sound. Consequently, not really suitable for a lot of the percussion noises because you get “ missed” responses
Why is everyone of these clips I watch always playing bongos everytime I watch one. Does it play snare and bass drum? All you guys go straight to bongos. Ugh
