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Hi Dmitri, my friend ordered an ARM Megadrum that was built by you last month, it's a really cool product. I have a few questions about it.

I am confused by the 7-pin DIN jacks on the back. How am I supposed use these instead of using USB? I don't want to use the USB cable at all, just midi cable. Do I use Rocktron MIDI Cable 5 to 7 Pin cable? If so, what power adapter do I use to power the Megadrum?

Also I could not find the "All Gains Low" screen, I scrolled through countless times looking for it, i'm assuming that the Megadrum had the latest firmware installed. Has the screen been removed?

Is it possible to use the Hi-Hat controller only send out midi CC information and not have it send any chick note at all? I tried to adjust the settings and cannot figure out how to make the hi-hat pedal not send any notes. I don't want to use the input as a conventional hi-hat pedal; I only want to use it as a midi CC expression.

butt_hash wrote:Hi Dmitri, my friend ordered an ARM Megadrum that was built by you last month, it's a really cool product. I have a few questions about it.

I am confused by the 7-pin DIN jacks on the back. How am I supposed use these instead of using USB? I don't want to use the USB cable at all, just midi cable. Do I use Rocktron MIDI Cable 5 to 7 Pin cable?

You can use a standard MIDI 5 pin cable. Only pins 4, 2 and 5 are functional on MIDI Out and only pins 4 and 5 on MIDI In.

If so, what power adapter do I use to power the Megadrum?

You can power it via the USB socket using any +5V regulated power adapter with a USB socket.

Also I could not find the "All Gains Low" screen, I scrolled through countless times looking for it, i'm assuming that the Megadrum had the latest firmware installed. Has the screen been removed?

Yes, it has been removed from ARM based MegaDrum because it's not needed in it.

Is it possible to use the Hi-Hat controller only send out midi CC information and not have it send any chick note at all?I tried to adjust the settings and cannot figure out how to make the hi-hat pedal not send any notes. I don't want to use the input as a conventional hi-hat pedal; I only want to use it as a midi CC expression.

You can assign Chick and Splash notes to any note which does not have any sound assigned in your MIDI sound synthesizer.