Third, you need my script, which tells it what to do.GlovePIE doesn’t even have to be installed – just unpack it and run it. Second you need GlovePIE, which does all the clever stuffs, and basically translates the input from the drum kit from game controller format to MIDI format.Download and install it, then REBOOT (no, you really do have to. I used the freeware Maple Virtual MIDI Cable. First, you need a MIDI driver so that you can map the output to your software’s MIDI input.But don’t worry, it’s well commented and easy to do! More about tweaking later, too!
I also can’t say for sure whether all of these drum kits are similarly calibrated, so it’s possible that to get the optimum performance you may have to tweak a few variables in my script. Since we’re exactly emulating the conditions and signals that your true external MIDI instrument would send, it ought to work with any software that lets you specify a MIDI input port. Most of my testing was with Cubase, and it works perfectly fine with that.
So hopefully I’m not upsetting anyone anyway!)Īlso, obviously I haven’t tested it with all MIDI software. Sorry, Mac users! (I don’t even know if you can use the kit on a Mac… certainly no Mac software is supplied. I don’t own a Mac, and I don’t know what you’d do to achieve the same on one. I should probably stress before I start that this is strictly a PC/Windows method. Oh, and you can still play the Virtual DrumX tutorial drum game that is supplied, albeit with your own MIDI drum kits! Whee! (See below for details on that) Plus it sounds infinitely better driving pure Sound Font percussion kits, and is more responsive than the original software (which unfortunately has a small but noticeable lag time between striking a pad and playing the sample, which can be disorientating.). I recently purchased the ION iED05 drum kit, despite having seen a number of reviews that stated that it had no capability outside of the software – and therefore drum samples – supplied with the kit.Īs I suspected, that’s not really the case! With a bit of jiggery-pokery, you can make the ION iED05 drum kit, and, I believe, the DrumXtreme DX-100, which appears to be the same kit with a different name, work with any MIDI capable software, which means you can use it with your sequencers, software synthesizers / samplers and notation programs, and assign pretty much any sounds or samples you like.