jordanyeh88
Member
I just bought this Octapad so play with my alternative rock/ electronic band and I am trying to understand its functionality.
I am starting to get used to the features and smoothly setting loops, and did some research about how to further build up my hybrid kit. So I bought roland pd-8 pads and I am thinking about buying the RT triggers for drum and snare, for live settings.
This is where I am confused. Upon attaching the pd-8 to the external trigger inputs...
"ride"= ride sound from the pad
"hi hat"= random sounds, high hat bow sounds?
"snare"= switches between "play" and "rec"
"kick"= random kick drums
"hh ctrl"= nothing
footswitch= allows me to use pads to operate the buttons
These triggers are not actually adding more pads on top of the 8 on the octapad? or are they just triggering one of the 8 pads?
Is there a way to specifically control and choose the tones that the external pd-8 will play, or 2 sounds even, since its a dual trigger? (so it plays a tone not already among the 8 on the octapad)
I am trying to figure out how to effectively get the most out of this octapad with my pd-8's! (bought 3 of them used)
And wondering if the RT triggers are something that I should consider buying.
I am starting to get used to the features and smoothly setting loops, and did some research about how to further build up my hybrid kit. So I bought roland pd-8 pads and I am thinking about buying the RT triggers for drum and snare, for live settings.
This is where I am confused. Upon attaching the pd-8 to the external trigger inputs...
"ride"= ride sound from the pad
"hi hat"= random sounds, high hat bow sounds?
"snare"= switches between "play" and "rec"
"kick"= random kick drums
"hh ctrl"= nothing
footswitch= allows me to use pads to operate the buttons
These triggers are not actually adding more pads on top of the 8 on the octapad? or are they just triggering one of the 8 pads?
Is there a way to specifically control and choose the tones that the external pd-8 will play, or 2 sounds even, since its a dual trigger? (so it plays a tone not already among the 8 on the octapad)
I am trying to figure out how to effectively get the most out of this octapad with my pd-8's! (bought 3 of them used)
And wondering if the RT triggers are something that I should consider buying.