SRX-01, mapping of sounds

why? no answer here, but I'll definately agree it makes the board almost useless out of the box ... and useless in general since you'll never be able to share pattens between the Fantom kits and the SRX-01 board ...

I've had this thing for months and I'm still trying to make a go of it ... I'll admit, I don't like spending a lot of time programing drums ... I'd rather be playing keys ..

Something I've been trying -- with limited success -- is using arpeggiators from my other synths to trigger the SRX-01 drum sets ... again, nothing spectacular ... it seems the SRX-01 drum sets are configured in a unique way ... though I do get pretty good results playing the drum sets from the keyboard ...

there ARE a lot of great-sounding acoustic drum sets in there ...



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Roland Fantom X7, Alesis Fusion 6HD, Novation X/A-Station 25, Alesis Micron

I agree with diametro.... there are some killer drum patches in that card, and you can make some very realistic trax using real-time or step-record. Being a drummer, I can make this card sound Xactly how I would play the trax live on a real kit. I prefer to real-time record.....I seem to be able to get that natural feel(I use 16th note grid quantize, most of the time) But I don't think it's useless as diametro said. So you can't use the onboard patterns....big deal... those patterns are COOKIE CUTTER to say the least. Real-time is the way to go. I think it's much less GROOVY to step record a pattern, rather than play it for real to capture that feel that is so important for drum trax

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A couple'o'quarts'o'beer makes it so the intonation does not offend yer ear!

well, maybe not useless ...

I'll admit the Fantom's patterns ARE cookie cutter, but sometimes a simple beat is all you need, especially if you're layering it with other, more specialized drum rhythms ...

anyway, thanks for the inspiration ... one of these days I'll get something good out of it ...



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Roland Fantom X7, Alesis Fusion 6HD, Novation X/A-Station 25, Alesis Micron

Thanks for the replies. I also agree with you both about the patterns but as Diametro said, "sometimes a simple beat is all you need". I find the patterns useful when trying out different programs. I think Roland should have made the card more compatible with the on board patterns and stuck with the normal mapping so switching drum sets "after the fact" would be possible.

Actually, I was most looking forward to auditioning the new drum sets from the card into songs I've created, but that obviously didn't work well either.

There are a lot of great sounds on this board and with some work I'm sure it will be very useful. It's just too bad so much work will be involved.