Hello and Greetings from Philly, USA—
My name is DRUMAT!C of KicDrum Products. I recently purchased the DT in hopes of being able to use it as a more modern alternative to the S950. The filters and FX on DT are simply amazing and perfect for modernizing the sonic quality of our beat production (DRUMZ + LLINGO).
This may be one of the most inane questions on these forums and I do apologize in advance if my question is confusing… but here goes anyhow:
The SP-1200 uses a rather obsolete MIDI note ON/OFF function and cannot control SYNC A / SYNC B, but rather seems to trigger all MIDI channels’ on the DT simultaneously and chromatically plays back certain sounds — track’s 1–8 (channel’s 1–8). I’m not sure if there is a way to control what is played or isolate a specific range of keys ie. a KEYGROUP.
Finally getting to my question…
Is there a way to set KEY GROUPS or assign the DT tracks 1–8 to only trigger if the SP1200 plays that particular MIDI note, ie. pressing pad 1 on the SP1200 in BANK A would trigger MIDI note # C3 (60) on the DT for a one shot FWD playing audio sample. The SP1200 doesn’t need to control any complex parameters… I simply want to trigger that note to play as it would via the akai S950 or any other similar rack sampler.
The SP1200 utilizes 4 banks and 8 drum pads per bank for a total of 32 possible triggers (sounds).
BANK A:
pad 1 = C3 60
pad 2 = C3# 61
pad 3 = D3 62
pad 4 = D3# 63
pad 5 = E3 64
pad 6 = F3 65
pad 7 = F3# 66
pad 8 = G3 67
If this is impossible… I’d like to be able to at least control my SP1200 with the DT. Is there a simple way to do this? When I connected MIDI OUT (DT) to MIDI IN (SP1200) nothing happened. I’m very very new to the DT, so maybe I’m missing a MIDI setting.
Additional notes:
• The SP1200 can START / STOP the DT pattern mode, but plays all of the pads simultaneously.
• The DT does lock to the SP1200 MIDI clock, but the SP1200 offers erratic playback… which is a great thing if you love that humanized, organic shuffle in your drum patterns.
• The SP1200 will play MIDI channels 1-8 on the DT, and chromatically playback random sounds, depending on the key range.
I can provide the full MIDI note assignments for each SP-1200 pad if needed in order to help me with this issue.
Thanks so much either way…
– DRUMZ