Hey man, great tutorial! I have a gig coming up where the artist needs backing tracks to save a few bucks before renting an SPD, and I happen to have one of these, so good to know it's possible. Regarding the Mono/Poly stuff you mentioned, do you know if there's a way to "stop" the track at all once it gets going? Not necessarily a deal breaker on my side, but just in case of a false start or something like that during the show. Thanks again! Subscribed. :)
Thanks so much for the kind words! Fortunately yes - there’s an ‘all sound off’ feature which will stop all the tracks like you say. Or you can set the trigger to ‘Alt’ which means you can hit it once to start, hit it again to stop
Love your content Harry. Quick question, can you think of an application where one would use the SPD SXpro and also have a use for the TM2? I share a kit with my son and we both gig. I use the SPD to trigger certain effects and he really just needs a bass drum trigger and a module for his music. Im thinking about adding the TM2 and then the Roland trigger bar Thank you
Thanks so much! So off the top of my head, the first thing that comes to mind would be if you ran out of triggers/inputs on the SPD-SX Pro, Or if you wanted a separate MIDI controller. For example, having two PD-8 triggers as 'play' and 'stop' for backing tracks. For the setup you have now with your son, I think you're using both perfectly! For his needs, just the TM2 would be great. Both the good and bad thing about the SPD-SX Pro is that it has so many inputs and functionality that it's hard to add more to it, because it just does it all!
I’m not sure if you’d be able to enable/disable on one pact, but a way around this would be to make the BT-1 switch to the next patch when you hit it, therefor changing whatever you have on the RT-30K. Put those two kits into a kit chain and it’ll go back and forth
@@DrumElectric Tnx! Will look into dat. have you had any experience using the midi out triggering sounds from other devices? I want to have the tm2 trigger loops in other instruments… it probably can, can’t it?
@KitCatStudio yes! I do it all the time. The only issue with the TM2 is that it doesn’t have USB and doesn’t play MIDI tracks, so you can’t send the MIDI out directly from it, you’d have to use something like the TM-6 Pro, or SPD-SX (if you wanted to stick with Roland)
@@DrumElectric I already actually own both tm2 and tm6. I kinda wanna keep the tm6 for a studio purpose or for specific gigs, and have the tm2 as a handy tool in my backpack, and wondering what else could be “hacked” with it, I’m doing a lot of live work with dancers and show up by myself, so have to have it compact. I have some other Roland gear like the Mc101 which is great for playing loops (and changing bpm on the fly which is the most important feature!) so wondering if my devices could integrate and how :)
Hi Harry, where are you located? I know that you helped out Eddy Th recently and I’m in the next village. Wouldn’t mind some help on setting up my studio.
More than happy to help! I recently helped Eddy update his studio setup from the first time I did it so funny you should comment. Send me a DM or email and we'll work something out!
I'd say yes, but if you have multiple tracks you are going to set up multiple instruments that all have the same sample on trigger input one and different backing tracks on input 2 (or vice-versa)
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Hey man, great tutorial! I have a gig coming up where the artist needs backing tracks to save a few bucks before renting an SPD, and I happen to have one of these, so good to know it's possible.
Regarding the Mono/Poly stuff you mentioned, do you know if there's a way to "stop" the track at all once it gets going? Not necessarily a deal breaker on my side, but just in case of a false start or something like that during the show.
Thanks again! Subscribed. :)
Thanks so much for the kind words!
Fortunately yes - there’s an ‘all sound off’ feature which will stop all the tracks like you say. Or you can set the trigger to ‘Alt’ which means you can hit it once to start, hit it again to stop
@@DrumElectric amazing - that'll cover it then. Thanks again man!
Love your content Harry. Quick question, can you think of an application where one would use the SPD SXpro and also have a use for the TM2?
I share a kit with my son and we both gig. I use the SPD to trigger certain effects and he really just needs a bass drum trigger and a module for his music.
Im thinking about adding the TM2 and then the Roland trigger bar
Thank you
Thanks so much! So off the top of my head, the first thing that comes to mind would be if you ran out of triggers/inputs on the SPD-SX Pro, Or if you wanted a separate MIDI controller. For example, having two PD-8 triggers as 'play' and 'stop' for backing tracks.
For the setup you have now with your son, I think you're using both perfectly! For his needs, just the TM2 would be great. Both the good and bad thing about the SPD-SX Pro is that it has so many inputs and functionality that it's hard to add more to it, because it just does it all!
Hi, can you help me further? If RT-30K and BT-1 are connected to the TM-2, can i also enable/disable RT-30K when hitting BT-1?
I’m not sure if you’d be able to enable/disable on one pact, but a way around this would be to make the BT-1 switch to the next patch when you hit it, therefor changing whatever you have on the RT-30K. Put those two kits into a kit chain and it’ll go back and forth
@@DrumElectric Okay, thank you for the fast respond👍
Hey great stuff, but wouldn’t this setup mean that backing track is playing in mono?
That’s right! You might be able to work around that with the headphone output so you can have tracks in stereo
@@DrumElectric Tnx! Will look into dat. have you had any experience using the midi out triggering sounds from other devices? I want to have the tm2 trigger loops in other instruments… it probably can, can’t it?
@KitCatStudio yes! I do it all the time. The only issue with the TM2 is that it doesn’t have USB and doesn’t play MIDI tracks, so you can’t send the MIDI out directly from it, you’d have to use something like the TM-6 Pro, or SPD-SX (if you wanted to stick with Roland)
@@DrumElectric I already actually own both tm2 and tm6. I kinda wanna keep the tm6 for a studio purpose or for specific gigs, and have the tm2 as a handy tool in my backpack, and wondering what else could be “hacked” with it, I’m doing a lot of live work with dancers and show up by myself, so have to have it compact. I have some other Roland gear like the Mc101 which is great for playing loops (and changing bpm on the fly which is the most important feature!) so wondering if my devices could integrate and how :)
Hi Harry, where are you located? I know that you helped out Eddy Th recently and I’m in the next village. Wouldn’t mind some help on setting up my studio.
More than happy to help! I recently helped Eddy update his studio setup from the first time I did it so funny you should comment. Send me a DM or email and we'll work something out!
Is it possible to do this , while having another trigger on the drum?
I'd say yes, but if you have multiple tracks you are going to set up multiple instruments that all have the same sample on trigger input one and different backing tracks on input 2 (or vice-versa)
Is the backing track in mono or stereo?
The backing track coming out of the TM-2 for this case would be mono