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I will try to post my work in progress build of megadrum, brain and pads too.
I'm still workin to complete all cable and wiring, and after i will test the software too.
My megadrum is build with the synthex kit 2.8 and the precious help of Dmitri, with his BIG patience!



I bought the box in a simple electronic-store about 30 €, with stereo jack connectors, microphone cable, piezos and a lot of stuff.
The original kit was a "drummond dd602" bought as BROKEN (about 200 € ) in a musicalstore.. i just modded the pad with the mesh head watching this nice tutorial ( http://www.freewebs.com/nuskooltone/ )

added the second piezos for the rim


(the internal connector was stereo jack)


and add on two cymbals the choke strings
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeTa2_WlXFc ).

I have a Roland cy5 as hihat and FD8 as pedal, yamaha pcy15 as Ride (3 ZONES!) and a DIY snare with crossbar (old video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CihZXUc77g )

- Populating the board


- Check Display


- Populated Board


More photos will coming.....

Good job !!

diy e-Exercise cymbal




Snare crossbar Trigger







Box holes







almost complete inside

Sweeeeeeet!

assembled with graphic!





as soon as possible i'll post a video with sounds test!

there is something wrong....
after the last update firmware, my megadrum menu seems to be slower than normal.
and in midiox after hitting anypad start to read a lot of midi signals (but in cubase not registered)
this messages go on until i stop them.
Playng superior 2 in cubase doesn't see this note on

Did you update using a correct firmware file?

Looks like what I'd get when setting a MIDI loop with MIDI-OX routing. Your first trigger results in a non-stop repetition for all eternity-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y.

well i think yes (synthex kit = megadrum32_16_32_20090528 )
If i start megadrum with left key pressed, the menu returns to be fast as before.
But after i load my settings saved on slot 1, again slow.
I think there is something wrong in midiox too, because cubase don't see any loop of midi notes.

alchemicus wrote:well i think yes (synthex kit = megadrum32_16_32_20090528 )
If i start megadrum with left key pressed, the menu returns to be fast as before.
But after i load my settings saved on slot 1, again slow.
I think there is something wrong in midiox too, because cubase don't see any loop of midi notes.

Don't load settings saved with previous version. Unpredicted things may happen.