Q: Single drum MIDI input not triggering
After many years just using my Yamaha DTExpress IV for stress relief, I finally decided to hook it up to my Mac and everything seemed to go fairly flawlessly once I connected everything correctly.
However, one drum does not trigger the selected virtual instrument in Logic 9.
On the DTX IV's drum module, I can see the LCD is showing the the pad I am hitting is being registered and in Logic, I can see that the hit is also being registered along with its velocity but no sound is being heard with any kit/instrument.
The only difference I can see with that one pad hit is that all the others are identified as A1 B1 C! etc but this pad is identified as E-1; i.e. with a hyphen. It also says beneath the ID, NO OUT.
There is definitely nothing wrong with the pad or its connector as I have swapped things around and eliminated them.
It's not a major problem as the pad which is connected to send that signal is usually used just for spontaneous hits and when used with the DTX IV just has a tambourine sound but it would be useful to know what is going on.
I've also noticed that the cymbals don't mute when held when played via MIDI, is this something which I can tweak?
Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), 8GB RAM, 1TB + 1TB HD
Posted on Jun 27, 2015 4:28 PM