Mapping Simmons SD7K / DD502 / SDHB2 drum kits

[jacenty]

For all those frustrated with their Simmons SD7K / DD502 / SDHB2 drum kit, here's how to make this thing usable under any DAW/plugin.

 

The drums are supposed to be mapped to General Midi out of the box but they're not. Luckily you can program the midi brain to work for you. The only thing I wasn't able to figure out as how to make the hihat pedal work. Apparently it's Simmons' proprietary solution that doesn't really work anywhere else but If you do get it working, let me know.

 

Here we go:

1. Connect the kit via USB to your computer

2. Set up an instrument channel

3. Add your favorite drum plugin to the channel and get your self behind the kit.

4. On the drumkit's midi controler, press 'Voice'. When you trigger a pad, the controler will switch to setting for that pad.

So for example hit the hit the snare and keep pressing the + button on the right side of the controller to cycle through midi notes. Keep going until you hear your plugin playing the snare sound

5. Repeat for all triggers.

 

As an example, here's the Addictive drums setting:

Kick: 16

Snare: 63

Hat (open): 137

Hat (closed) 132

Tom1: 102

Tom2: 100

Tom3: 95

Crash: 161

Ride: 144

 

Have fun!

[bradenofcoolness]

can you help me on actually connecting my SDHB2 to the computer via usb?

i can't find ANYTHING on it, but it won't work

[jacenty]

Sorry, never worked with that kit but the connection is pretty straight forward.

 

Plug in the USB cable, switch the unit on and you should be able to see it in Audio Midi preferences.

If it does not work as a standard MIDI device under OSX, you may have to look for drivers for it.