Would this work with the td-1dmk Roland drum kit?

[huubbouma]

I have a Roland td-1dmk which has a USB midi out. The drum machine that comes with the kit is rather limited, so I was wondering if I could hook it up to the zynthian?

Kind regards, Huub

[Jtunes]

Roland - TD-1DMK | V-Drums

Assuming that the USB-MIDI output is class compliant (I don’t know why it wouldn’t be), then yes, that would absolutely work! Zynthian does include some drum sounds, and you can always make your own with a free soundfont creator like Polyphone.

All the best!
-Jack

[wyleu]

Some zynth drums The red leb kit . . .

Zynthian Drum Machine

I would suggest you look at this thread … Personally I have the Alesis Triggerio (and goodness ain’t they similar … ) [Alesis_triggerio] [Ddrum] which I’ve used not strapped to a drum kit yet but have triggered from 6 metronomes (Don’t ask, it didn’t really work but that not the Alesis’s fault), and that gives you the kind of Pre interface dynamics control ( think MIDI pre-amp) that as you say, you need in this kind of area. The Led Zep drums are played from a zynth but the midi…

[huubbouma]

Thanks a lot for your answers. Also the fact that I get fast responses is great! I will order a zynthian and have some fun then