Can i use an electric drumset with my MPC1000 via midi?

I am trying to find out if I can use a cheap electronic drumset called the ION Audio iED01. i used to be a drummer and make click tracks or just drum tracks are much easier if I can play the hands on like a drum set. I guess it would be like triggering in a way but i am not to sure. Trying to see if i run a midi port out of the kit i can control the sounds in my MPC1000? And what steps I need to do to get it done. Or if i need to take another route?

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yo there's no reason why you can't do this, but i dont know how you would set midi notes on the drumset.

good luck though, i guess nobody else has tried this. honestly, though drummers get used to the 16 pads real easy real quick and real well.

maybe i can change the midi notes in my mpc to recieve the proper ones from the drumset instead of going thru the drumsets midi settings......what you think about that

that would be easily done, too. good thinking. let me know how this works, because it could be well used live. you could do cool things with 4 layers of the same drum, each one hit progressively harder, and adjust the velocity settings accordingly so you have more expressiveness...

i thought about this before and it would def be cool. specially if ur a drummer. nothing is better than hitting a proper setup/layout

im sure it can be easily implemented

i think i saw DJ Embee of looptroop do this once, live... not sure he hooked it up to an mpc though. but it looked nice!

One of the guys from Transit Kings did this on their EP, cause he got fed up trying to work out if it was possible for a real drummer to be playing so many different things at once, so thought it made more sense to get a kit and play it out. Should be pretty simple once you've worked out which MIDI notes each element of the drum kit relates to.

cause he got fed up trying to work out if it was possible for a real drummer to be playing so many different things at once

do people actually still worry about this? no criticism if they do, power to em for authenticity, but i pay no mind to it....should i?

Yeah I dunno, I certainly don't, but I suppose if you are going for an "authentic" sounding drum pattern then you would pay more attention to it.

I'm new to the mpc world but wouldn't the easiest way would be to sync your drumset to midi. Then hit say your snare. In the midi/sync mode it will tell you what "note" your mpc is recieving. Then assign that drum to that bad and your good. Unless you are trying something more complex than what i'm saying, it should only take you about 2 min.

^^ hehe, dude i think what you're saying is so 'complex' that even you don't know what you're talking about. i sure as hell don't. nice try though...

this can definitely be done, you just need a trigger-midi interface of some sort. the ION uses one of these itself, a small unit which has inputs for the drum pads and sends out a midi signal to the drum machine that comes with it (a re-badged Alesis SR-16). you could probably just replace the ION drum machine with the MPC itself. looks like it might fit on the stand there. simply changing the note numbers on an MPC program set up for this would be just the way to do it. if the pad velocity gets converted to midi velocity (which is usually the case) then you could take advantage of the velocity>volume/start/decay settings on the MPC. not sure how the build quality is, but the ION should work out good for the price. here's some other examples (you can buy sets of two ION pads for $50 and build your own set if you didn't need the whole thing)...

Alesis DM5 (or 4 or whatever, they all work the same)


Roland TMC6


Roland PM-16 (16 pad inputs!)

a while back I posted videos of me playin my Roland SPD11 kit, I used it to trigger Battery on my PC but you could do the same with any sampler that has MIDI in, I also did it using a SP505...I dunno the electronic drumpads your talking off but if they run MIDI out then you can ..alotta pads can run program change and bank change assignable midi values

http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php ... highlight=


theres teh thread I think the 2nd video has been deleted but you can still grab the 1st one

this is different than the SPD-type of controller. he's talking about this...