Originally Posted by: William MG

No, I wasn't aware Carl, thanks for this. I am learning step by step with all this stuff as I go along so really appreciate the input. At lunch time I picked up a Roland TD-1 kit from our local music supply. I will begin setting up my room for it tonight and hope to have it together by the weekend.

That's awesome. I'd plug it in through USB and use something like Toontrack / Superior / EZ Drummer. You'll get more realistic sounds that way.

Here's an article I found for you, which you'd probably run across yourself.

https://rolandcorp.com.au/blog/recording-the-roland-td-1-drum-kit

One final tip -- you might run into difficulty with the Hi-Hat on your kit, simply because they don't really react with all the nuance of real hi-hat cymbals. You might find you're thinking it's open and you end up getting a closed sound at random, or vice versa. That's a pretty normal problem. The main cymbals might also mistrigger from time to time. You can fix it later in MIDI. :)

Now that you have the trigger pads, you can change the sounds to anything in the world.

-Carl.