I made a YouTube video showing how to send a kick drum pattern played with fingertips on the Roland SPD::ONE Electro drum pad from Studio One Professional 6.6 to NOTION 6.8.2 on the Mac . . .

THOUGHTS

This is very easy to do once you discover how to configure the Roland SPD::ONE Electro drum pad and Studio One Professional 6.6, which I did over the past week working on making sense of everything for perhaps 100 or so hours . . .

As you might know, I compose and record old-time science fiction radio plays and occasional songs; and until now I have done the drums with VSTi virtual instruments and music notation in Studio One, mostly with Addictive Drums 2 (XLN Audio) and MODO DRUM (IK Multimedia), which works nicely but can be a bit robotic at times since it's done with music notation on an Apple 27" iMac (Late 2013) running macOS Catalina--an indisputable testament to doing digital music production with current software running on a 10 year-old Apple computer running an operating system (macOS Catalina) from 2019 . . .

The computer and its operating system are old, but everything else is new, including the Roland SPD::ONE Electro drum pad that I purchased this week, although technically the SPD::ONE was released by Roland in 2017 or thereabout . . .

After sleeping a while, I awoke and had the epiphany that since I have been playing drumkit patterns with my fingertips for seven or so decades--often to the great annoyance of anyone within earshot--I can do this with the Roland SPD::ONE Electro drum pad as a skilled percussionist or as I like to imagine "Lars Ulrich from Metallica" . . .

I also like to play unopened soda pop cans, which if you hold them at the top and bottom edges make outer space and 1980s Disco tom-tom sounds when you hit the side of the soda pop can briskly and then quickly rotate it to do a variation of a Doppler effect--something I like to do when riding in an elevator, ideally packed with people, since it's a captive audience and all they can do it protest . . .

[Whispered conversation overheard on an elevator]

ELEVATOR RIDER #1: OMG, it's that fellow from the 13th floor who makes strange sounds with a soda pop can. On the good side, at least he doesn't do it to accompany himself releasing melodic flatulence.

ELEVATOR RIDER #2: I wouldn't be so certain, at least not on Hawaiian Shirt Friday.

The Roland SPD::ONE Electro drum pad plays one monotone MIDI Note in series (MIDI Channel 10, C3); so doing an entire drumkit this way with fingertips requires doing it in layers where each layer is a specific drum, cymbal, or Latin percussion VSTi virtual instrument; but then doing it with music notation requires doing it one staff and VSTi virtual instrument at a time; so it's actually less work than more work, and I think it will sound more human and real but less robotic . . .

This is the YouTube video:



I plan to do a matching set of YouTube videos to show how to use the Roland SPD::ONE Electro drum pad with Studio One Professional 6.6 on an HP Envy computer running the current version of Windows 11 Pro, Studio One, and NOTION . . .

It's basically the same as doing it on an Apple computer, but there might be a few tiny but important differences on the HP Envy computer . . .

Lots of FUN!