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Wow, thanks for the detailed reply, this is very helpful! That’s definitely exciting to hear that its feasible with the Turbo kit.
Just to confirm, I presume that with the Midi-ox software you can map the different drums how you so choose, so you were able to map the hihat pedal as the second kick?
Also, did you have any headaches with latency issues or hits not registering, anything like that? I’m curious after going through this method, would you still prefer to purchase the Turbo, or would you rather have shelled out the extra 80 for the nitro?
I was using a friend’s kit, so I haven’t done much research and can’t speak on whether you should upgrade or not. However, I will say that the Turbo brain is very basic and you can’t, as Alternity suggested, map different pads to different notes within the brain itself. This isn’t really much of a problem since the default notes that they send do correspond to the notes that Rock Band is expecting, so to configure it the most you have to do is swap cable inputs going into the cymbals/pads themselves.
The game will automatically map the second pedal to a kick unless you turn on the “Hi-Hat Pedal” option in the game’s Drum Options. And if you turn that option on it will affect how the hi-hat sounds during fills but not make it register the blue cymbal as one might expect.
MIDI-OX just seems to be a simple router, but that’s all I needed for my purposes. I didn’t notice any significant lag but I was also using it with a pretty laggy TV, so I can’t say for sure.
Hey, coincidentally I recently tried to get the Alesis Turbo working and the biggest problem was its lack of MIDI out. I use RB3 but presumably this would also work with RB4 and the PDP Wired Legacy Adapter. To get it working I used:
- Rock Band MIDI Pro Adapter
- USB-B cable (since the Turbo doesn’t come with one)
- MIDI In/Out to USB interface cable
- A Windows computer
- MIDI-OX software (midiox.com)
Use the usb cable to connect the drum module to the computer, then use the USB/MIDI interface to connect the MIDI Out cable to the Pro Adapter.
In the MIDI-OX software go to Options >> MIDI Devices, then select Alesis Turbo as the input and USB MIDI as the Output and click OK. It should begin keeping a log on screen of when you trigger the pads and routing that out to the Pro Adapter.
It works great, with a couple minor annoyances:
- Didn’t notice any velocity sensitivity
- The kick pedal does not register as being held down, so you need another controller to pull up the alphabet menu in-game
Also, I don’t recommend this particular cable because it is very sensitive and disconnect if nudged even slightly:
Nor do I recommend this item as a substitute for a computer because it simply didn’t work for some reason:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074NGTGHN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
April 17, 2019 at 10:30 am in reply to: Advice regarding [music_start] and [music_end] events #504468This is the type of nuance that I appreciate. I’ll admit that I typically put [music_start] at the very first note and [music_end] at the end of the very last note, but I’ll probably take this into account in the future. Thanks.
The first time you do it it will take a long time as you figure things out. Then, as you figure things out you may find that your standards get higher and higher meaning it will still take a long time.
I tend to do everything except lower difficulties (which I’ve recently starting using CAT for), and from start to finish it may take a few weeks of spending a couple hours a day to get something I’m satisfied with. Then, years later I will look back on it and still find flaws with it. The point is, nothing’s ever perfect.
Very cool! I was eventually going to make something like this, but life gets in the way. Glad I’m not the only one that finds RBN2 venue authoring tedious.
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