Thank You for this real life config help 🎉❤

Why are you using a TM-2 in addition to the SX? Couldn't you use the SX for triggering?

Hard to believe an accomplished professional like yourself cares enough about others to take the time to create by far the finest tutorial video to help others. You are an incredible player and a hell of a bice person. Cheers mate!

Great informative video.

"dont want too many people on stage interperting the click.."-aint that the truth!

Nice one, Kingsley!

Why did you chose to use the TM-2 instead of connecting the external pads to the SPD-SX and loading the necessary samples?

Do you send all of this to front of house via the DI box outs?

You have earned your ticket to heaven with this. Thank you!

Super helpful! Thank you.

Thank you so much for this. Really thorough explanation video. The major disadvantage of this set up (unless someone can tell me where I am wrong please) is that there is no way to separate the rest of the pads you might actually use to play on the SPDX. The engineer would want the backing track to be separate from these voices/hits rather than ask you to adjust the amount of backing in relation to the rest of the kit would they not?

I couldnt watch it because he kept smacking his lips tooo much , real sassy

If your the only one monitoring the click, how do songs that start with vocals or another instrument start a song that has tracks coming in later?

Why dont you guys show us and play what you get in you ears? Is it a secret?

Thanks so much for this video Do you know if you can send midi notes during a song? Meaning: I want the SPD to switch the scenes of my Quad Cortex live during a certain song through a midi cable. (So i don't have to do this by foot - so i can focus on singing and playing). In other words: can the SPD automatically send midi notes to the midi output after starting a track? I know i could do this though Ableton but I prefer NOT to have a computer on stage... Thanks in advance. Vinny

Precision and control, bang on drumming - classy playing all round. Love your finger damping on the snare and toms to stop extra ringing - nice touch on top of all the great playing.

Why you Are you using the tm2 and the spd Sx? Couldnt you Trigger with the Spd Sx?

Does anyone have a diagram for this set up?

Excellent video. Clear enough that I can tell where I can alter your setup to suit my requirements. One question on the length of track vs length of click. What happens if the backing track and click wav files are slightly different? Let’s assume they both start at exactly the same time and are both at the same tempo; if the click track finished a couple of seconds before the backing track, does the SPD-SX stretch the click track (or compress the backing track) to make them both run for the exact same time, thereby altering the tempo of one of the files and effectively unsyncing them? Of does it run the risk of one of the tracks looping until the other track finishes?

I’ve been carrying my SPD-SX AND a Zoom R8 for backing track and clicks because I didn’t think there was a way for the band to get the click track without it also going through to the house. This was crazy helpful and I feel crazy dumb since I’ve had this pad for a few years.

Beautiful drumming man, great stuff.

Wow, thank you. Top quality education from a top notch drummer

Awesome video man! very clear and easy to follow. One question I have, I use my SPDsx for backing tracks live with my band but we are only pub covers band etc so mix our own sound, as the drummer thats my responsibilty. As we don't have a desk out the front and the mixing desk that runs FOH sits right beside me is there any need for DI boxes for the master outs of the SPDSX before they go into the main mixer as its only a couple of feet away from the SPDSX and i am using short (2m) cables to connect it currently Or would I still benefit from adding a DI box to this setup? Cheers Mate!

This is amazing I love your sound with the microphones are you using? Cheers from Florida

That looks so painful. Hopefully, there's an easier way 3 years later. :)

Just checked this video out.Great stuff sir.

this was the most helpful video ive ever found on the internet! cheers mate!

So good - thanks heaps

This video was super helpful, thanks!

Thank you for this video. helped me a lot

Hey, I wanted to thank you so much for this video. It allowed me to pipe everything in correctly for a recent gig. Much appreciated!

Man, I would've loved to see you keep up consistent content. This is great content, super informative and you are a heck of a player! Nothing against deciding if the social game wasn't for you. But if you ever needed the push to want to keep on with content creation, I would love to be the one to encourage you to make a presence via KZbin, shorts, TikTok, insta, etc. if that's a path you want to take.

oh man this is so complex . but verry interesting. greetings

Hey Kingsley please can you show example of how this whole set up works from the start of a song? Ie you strike the pad and it starts. I’m wondering how the band gets a count in? Do you add extra bars at the beginning of the click and BT? So it’s like 4 count for you then 4 count for the band assuming only you had click? On the bands 4 count you’d click your sticks for example? Great video by the way thank you.

MY SPD-SX HAS PADS 3 & 6 WILL NOT LIGHT UP. The will not play and I can't turn them on. Do you have any tips? Great lesson. Thank you.

Which ride cymbal are you using dude?

Awesome stuff... I wouldn't mind if you walk us through a little bit about what you're doing 🙂

Very intuitive video! One question, when I plug headphones into the headphone port on SPD-SX and pad link both click and backing track, I still hear the backing track through headphones. Is having a mixer + (sub out) the only way to isolate click with no backing coming out of headphones?

Kingsley, thanks for making this video. Good info here. Question for you: why are you running your sound to FoH in stereo? Is the full mix being put out in stereo?

Great video & tidy setup.

Good info, but there must be easier ways.

Thank you!! This video was perfectly clear and helped out so much! 🙌🏼

thank you so much! nice playing too!

You’re the best! Have been looking for this exact info for a while and you’ve explained it perfectly :) thanks!!

If any visually impaired person wants to use this system will he or she be able to use it with voice over or voice aid program?

Would this also work with a Yamaha DTX 12 Multi Pad? It's basically the same thing but Yamaha brand.

Clear video! I have simular settings for backing/click track. Works perfectly (most of the time). I do have some interesting challenges randomly that I unfortunately can't reproduce. During a show I had the click or backing starting to stutter and be out of sync of each other. Not always with the same song but also just randomly. Settings are 99% like yours. I only have the Poly/mono set to mono for the click/backing/trigger. I have a click trigger to TRIG 1 for the kick triggers (set to dymamic + shot) I also trigger a lightshow via MIDI when I start the click track. So then, when the click is out of sync with the backing it is mostly also out of sync with the lightshow. A real bummer. Already had a back to factory settings / FW check. V1.08 is installed. File sizes and length have been checked that they are simular. They are and both are 44khz/16bit as specified. Have you ever had this challenge? Or any thoughts on how to solve this / what might influence my setup?

This is one of the most helpful videos I've ever seen. Thank you!!

Quick Question! Can you also send MIDI Clock from the Roland SPD to a synth bass? The synth bass is sequenced/latched or arpeggiated and needs to stay in time with the click. Any help would be great thanks!

Hey, there Thanks for the great video. It's really helpful. I have 2 questions. One, must I use di boxes between my desk and foh? Second, how do I ensure that only I hear the separate click track sample, won't that also be sent to foh? I get that I route it sub out from spdsx to desk, what then tho to prevent to from being sent from desk to foh? Thanks so much for your time.