Run Backing Tracks from a Drum Pad
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- We're looking at running backing tracks from a drum pad! In this video, I'm using the Roland SPD-SX but this absolutely works on things like the Yamaha DTX and Alesis Multi-Pad!
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Spent the afternoon watching your videos and got my first backing track onto my SPD SX. Thanks for the best walk through. Saved me hours.
Thanks so much Chris! So happy I could help!
This has really been helpful. Thanks so much.
Thanks so much for the video bro, helps so much now. Thanks alot. You're killing it. Keep doing you and you'll make it big!
Thank you so much, Christopher! You’re too kind!! And thank you for The great request!
Very well explained, finally someone who helps make sense of this hahah. Thanks mate
Haha!! Thanks so much Stuart!!
Thank you. I had just purchased the unit and was having a hard time. It really helped me out. The unit I purchased had 100 kits filled and 883 waves.. I have to unload it to a memory stick
Very nice, and. teaching me something new.
Great set of videos. Keep em coming. Now all I need to do is buy myself an SPD SX.
Do it!! They’re so much fun! If you need a cheaper option (as they’re expensive!), check out the Alesis strike pad and sample pad, they work a treat! Check out the links in the description as there are some on there
Man I just discovered your channel and instantly subscribed. Your teaching is going to help my live band out in a huge way! I just wanna ask, can you still do this with running tracks and use still with running drum triggers simultaneously?
Thank you so much!! And yes, you can!
Thank u soooo much
Thank you for this! Can you midi sync to a backing track imported into a drum pad? If I connected via midi to a synth / arpeggiator, would it sync with a pre-recorded track if I put the appropriate tempo in the tempo field when importing?
From my knowledge, this isn't possible running straight from the SPD. You can definitely sync them together through MIDI, but you'd have to run the track from something like Ableton to get them to sync. Again, this is from knowledge, so I could be wrong! Have an experiment where possible
Just discovered your channel, and it’s great. Here’s an unrelated SPD SX question: what kind of tape do you use to put labels on yours pads? I haven’t found a way to do that.
Thanks so much! I always welcome unrelated questions! The tape is standard neon tape. I think I found it on Amazon as it was slightly thinner than the standard tape. But neon tape is the way!
I took this advice verbatim and it works great. Only issue I'm running into is that my backing tracks are coming through both my master out (withouth the click, which is good) but they're also coming through the phones channel with the click. Not a huge issue except that when trying to control the level of the click in my ears, I'm also turning up the backing track level... Any ideas as to how to isolate so JUST the click is coming through the phones and I'm not hearing the backing tracks there at all?
Great question! From my knowledge, you should be able to head into the individual pad output settings and change it so the backing track is just coming out of the Master Out, and the Click is just going through the headphones. I don't think you can adjust it where you can hear both, but only control the level of the click without having a separate mixer. I hope this helps!
Great video! I have a feeling that the SPDSX only recognises 16 bit wav files in case anyone is struggling to get their tracks to work
Yes! You’re absolutely right. 16 bit, 44.1 .wav files are the winning combinations
How do you go about using the click through the SPD SX if you're also receiving a mix from the sound engineer? Can it be sent to the SPD SX?
If you set up a little mixer you can take the 'sub out' from the SPD, and have an input from the sound engineer, meaning you can have the click from the SPD!
Fab vid , kudos. Had a couple of questions.
Wondering if there’s a way to safeguard against accidentally turning off the backing track by unintentionally hitting one of the linked pads again halfway through a tune.
Also, do you think there’s enough memory in the unit to facilitate a 2/3 hour set?
And do you think there are enough initialised sample set patches to host a 30 song set list. Ta
For accidentally hitting a pad - sadly not that I know of! It’s not something that’s happened to me as of yet (fingers crossed), but I can’t think of any settings that would prevent this.
Memory wise - depending on your backing track sized and the SPD, you should be fine! If you remove all of the in-built samples and load your own, there should be enough room. Additionally, if you purchase the red special edition SPD-SX, it comes with more memory.
For a 30 song set list - yes! There are more than 30 patches available on it
@@DrumElectric thanks for the reply ... much appreciated. I’m gonna go the zoom r8 for stereo tracks and click. The unit is great though , just can’t afford an accidental switch off during a show , even if it’s quite unlikely.
Awesum tutorial. Quick question would you know how to set the same thing up with an Alesis strike multipad? Thankyou
Thanks so much!! From my knowledge, it’s pretty much exactly the same - import the audio files to the required pads, and then link them up! I’ve used the Alesis Strike Multi-Pad before the SPD-SX and it’s fantastic, but sadly I no longer have it!
@@DrumElectric Why do you prefer the SX over the Strike? I own the strike, but the one major downside is the lack of software.. otherwise its great 🔥
Nice Video, Can you tell me which software you use to mute the drums? (software in chapter 'making the track') Thank You!
Thanks so much! I’m using Logic Pro X in this video
would it be possible to do this with multiple stems as a backing track instead of one wav? and then trigger them to ute and un mute when you hit them?
You could, but I don’t think there’s a feature to mute and unmute a pad when you hit them sadly. I could be wrong, but you’d have to use the SPD-SX with something like Ableton to achieve this
Great vid! One issue of playing live I have found is that if I accidentally hit the backing or linked click everything stops... Is there any way around this issue so it's not so terrifying on stage?
Thanks so much, Joe!! Haha! I fully understand the fear! The only thing I've really come across (besides from moving the SPD) is moving the tracks to a pad I know I won't hit very easily and putting the threshold on the pad quite low so I know that in order to trigger it, I have to hit it pretty hard!
Add the backing track and click to foot switches instead of the pads, was something useful I learned from another video
great video! can you not have the first 4 clicks come out of the mains? we run tracks in my band and the singer has me running them with an iPad, but the tracks always have the first 4 count come through the front of house, which sounds dumb imo. cheers!
Interesting! I’ve never had to set it up to have the click come out of front of house! But when making the backing tracks, just put the first clicks with the main backing tracks panned to one side, and then the rest of the click panned to the other. Or, export the first 4 clicks with the backing tracks and send that out of the ‘main’ output of the SPD-SX, and then the rest of the click through the headphone output
Need you help ASAP my man! Just purchased an SPD-SX, I have a 2020 macbook pro with only USB-C ports. I have a USB-A to USB-C cable, and for the life of me cannot get my computer to find the SPD. I noticed your on a mac, any solution here you're aware of?
Hey Jefferson! A couple things could be going on here. My first question - is it the new M1 MacBook Pro? If it is, I’m not sure of the support yet from Roland, but it may be a case of running things with Rosetta depending on what you want to do.
The second thing will be to make sure that you’ve changed the settings in the SPD to audio/midi if you want to send midi signal to your MacBook, or wave manager if you want to import/export.
Up next is making sure you’ve got all the relevant drivers up to date on your MacBook from the Roland website - if you’re sending midi, you’ll need the appropriate drivers.
And finally, making sure your USB-A to USB-C adapter works!
Feel free to shoot me a DM on Instagram/Facebook! I hope this helps!
Great video! I have a question, how is it working if you trigger additional samples from your Spd-x-Kit during the playing of the backing track/click. Are there any volume drops or something like this or does the click-backingtrack-linked-pad stop if you trigger other samples on the Spd-x? Thank you in advance :-)
Great question! So there's a few things that can happen - Normally, they'd trigger at whatever volume you've set them as on the SPD-SX with no drops in volume on other things. As long as they're not in any mute groups, nothing will stop when you trigger things
@@DrumElectric perfect sounds great! So I can play the backing tracks and trigger additional samples at the same time from the same kit without any volume drops or for example the backing track stops? Did I get it right hhahaha?
@@Fingerboarder5579 You're absolutely right!
@@DrumElectric perfect thank you!!!
Hey, brilliant video. With the Alesis Strike Pad are you able to run full backing tracks and click like you have in this video? :) I want to play my tracks live and am worried there’s a length limit on the samples so wouldn’t be able to have my full backing track - have looked everywhere on the internet and can’t seem to find confirmation! Thank you x
Thanks so much! Great question, and sadly not one that I 100% know the answer to. From experience and talking to others, you can run backing tracks on the Alesis Strike Pad. I’m unaware of a length limit, but it’ll be worth importing them and hitting play to see! I think you should be fine as long as you’re not running 10 - 15min tracks!
@@DrumElectric thanks so much for getting back so quickly, I massively appreciate it! Right okay that’s great to know, only 4min backing tracks tops haha but just couldn’t seem to find any confirmation anywhere. Very excited to get the drum pad and try it out - will definitely be coming back to your channel regularly for tips 😊
Thanks so much, and so happy I could help!! If there’s anything I can help with, just let me know!
I need to ask about Backing Tracks. The band dont have a Keyboard Player, so we will use tracks with Keyboard on all songs we do. Then also click so tempo must be given from me follow this with in ear. then the tracks so how many pad i need to use and can we programate all the tracks into USB or SD Card??
It sounds like you can do this with just two pads on the SPD-SX specifically. One for click, one for tracks (keyboards and anything else you need). You can load all of it from a USB
Hey, great video! Can I ask, can the Roland play 3 stereo tracks at once with one slam (you only play 2 in the video)? I would like the first stereo track to be a click (only to the PHONES output), the second stereo sample (MASTER OUT) and the third again a click (SUB OUT - for the other band members). Is it possible to run more than two track?
So unfortunately not on the SPD-SX as you can only link 2 pads, but on the SPD-SX PRO you can. As you’re running two clicks, you could have the tracks on Master Output, and then a click on Sub Output, then you just route the click to the phones as well as Sub Output. Would work a treat and you only have to use two pads rather than three
@@DrumElectric Thanks so much for the comment! It's a shame, but what we're going to do is have PHONE OUT go to a small headphone distributor who will distribute the single to other members. I thought it would be perfect, but it's only going to be "very good". :) Let's rock!!
Nice channel! What about the output volume of the backing track? Usually it depends on how harder the pad is hit. How do you avoid this? Is there any setting to cut the dynamics and just run the track with the original volume?
Thanks so much! And great question! On the SPD-SX in this video there's a handy-dandy setting that allows you to turn off the dynamics of that pad. So exactly as you're saying - you can hit it at any velocity and it will play at the same volume
@@DrumElectric Thank you so much for clarifying, all the best! ✌
How would I route the SPD to the rest of the band and back of house?
Depending on what you want to send, you’d need to send it to the sound engineer and then it’d be their job to route it to the rest of the band and the front of house. Just make sure to let them know, as most of the time they forget the SPD-SX is even a thing!
It's Very Nice Explained! I have one Question. How long time can output Alesis Strike Multipad the backing track? 30min? 1hour?
Thank you so much!! From my knowledge there isn't a limit! As long as there's enough storage you should be fine
@@DrumElectric Thank you so much!! I tried to get this information fast 2days.... finally by your reply I can get the information!!! I hope you have a excellent time everyday~! :)
@@performingpianist1892 Amazing!! So happy I can help!!
Can you run time based midi cc out of this? I’m wanting to run a backtrack, click track and time based midi cc to a guitar pedal.
Is that possible?
From my knowledge, I don’t think specifically timed MIDI CC from the SPD-SX. You can send MIDI CC out of it, but I’ve not had any experience with what you’re looking for!
Does it work if with Yamaha Dtx Multi 12 instrument?
Absolutely!
Is it work on roland spd 30?
Yep!
Great video! What do u do if u what to turn the click up or down?
Thanks so much!! There’s a nice easy way for that. On the SPD-SX, choose the pad the click is on and adjust the pad volume to your needs
So it sounds like it cant be adjusted during a live performance fast. I only ask because I recently purchased one and LOVE it. Just trying to figure things out from actually drummers.
@@76orton it can indeed! And so great to hear you’re loving it, it’s so cool, right?! But if you want to adjust on the fly, you can adjust the volume knob on the SPD, or you can hit the button under the screen that says ‘PadVol’ and turn it down with the plus and minus buttons. I’ve done it mid song before!
Nice! That's pretty cool thanks! The SPD-SX just keeps impressing me
Can you run stereo backing tracks from the SPD?
Yes!
Hi! Do you give online/zoom tutorials?
Hey Miguel! Sadly, at the time of writing this comment, I don't do any private online/Zoom tutorials. Thank you for the interest!
is there a limit to the length of the backing tracks that can be played by the spd?
Not that I know of!
@@DrumElectric Thanks for replying! Can you somehow program the same pad or another one to stop or pause a track that you already triggered?
@@charmelink You can program another pad to stop it, but you can't pause it without using MIDI and a Laptop and running the backing track off of there (from my knowledge!)
So with this method you can only run 4 backing tracks, right? Let's say my band's setlist is 7 songs, how am I going to load all the necessary backing tracks for the show? (the only way I can think of is by using one pad for each backing track instead of two and doing it the old-school way by hard panning the click for example left and the samples right).
I would like to know if there's another way by keeping it stereo.
Any help would be much appreciated, great video tho man, keep it up!
For stereo tracks for a full show, I’d put each track on a separate patch and run through them with the plus button. That way you can also have samples for each song should you want them!
@@DrumElectric Oh I see! Thank you so much man, I really appreciate you help, cheers!
i'm guessing the click didn't really drop out, it was just in the headphones?
Exactly right! Click is only in the headphones
I want to hear metronome and backing tracks while backing tracks is recording on my DAW not including metronome.
Spd sx is going to my mixer
How is it possible?
I’d use the headphones output of the SPD-SX so you can hear click, and your DAW only records the tracks
@@DrumElectric how about samples? does click will include in recording???
So you plug your headphones into the headphone output of the SPD-SX, that way you can hear click and samples. Then you plug the Master Output L/Mono into your mixer so it doesn’t hear click
@@DrumElectric on that how can i hear songs from may laptop DAW?
If you’re just recording everything through your DAW, just plug the SPD-SX output into your interface like a microphone, and then headphones will come from the interface and you can record as you normally would like that
try izotope mouth de-click,, would improve your voice on your videos so much :D
Thank you so much for this!! I will definitely check it out and apply it to future videos!
@@DrumElectric btw, amazing content! :D
@@Luisinuay Thank you so much!!
Why not download a single wav file with Click panned Left and Tracks panned Right?
You absolutely can! I’ll be doing a video on that very subject soon. This is just one of the many ways if people want a different option! Helps if you’re triggering sounds at the same time
@@DrumElectric next question would be if the lower level pads can run tracks, like the samplepad pro or samplepad 4? I'm guessing load times would take too long?
@@DrumElectric would this work if you panned straight from the unit itself? So track panned right and click panned left? Hoping to do this with an upcoming gig but have never tried it before!
@@monicaspasaro it absolutely would work, yes!
Drum Electric awesome! You have put my mind at ease ☺️
I'm less interested in the how but more interested in the why and where examples.
Happy to help if I can! What do you want to know about them? I’ve got a few videos on where to find samples, and different ways to play backing tracks