Use the SPD-SX PRO as an Audio Interface

[@yoemre]

Awesome! Thanks a lot Harry. I am an amateur with a spd sx pro and a midi keyboard, just wanna toy around via Ableton. As a beginner, I was looking for a proper setup, and found myself here. Now I have a question if I would need an additional amp for 80 or 250 ohm headphone, do you know if SPD SX pro can also handle 80 or 250 ohm headphones without an additional amp or audio interface? Thanks in advance, I really appreciate your experiences

[@DrumElectric]

Thanks so much for checking out the content! I’m not entirely sure as I’ve not tried it myself, but I do know the headphone output on the SPD-SX Pro is incredibly powerful, so I imagine you might be able to use it without an amp. I’m not completely sure though, so if you get the chance to try it in a music store before buying, I’d highly recommend doing so!

[@ALEXCFC2]

Works for me really well with 80 ohm studio headphones through the spd sx pro

[@DrumElectric]

That’s really good to know. Thank you for the update!

[@yoemre]

Hey thank you both! @ALEXCFC2 and @DrumElectric I've just tried 250 ohm and it works perfectly. Moreover as an audio output device from Ableton, all channels' audio performance are also much better now haha love it :D Thanks!

[@DrumElectric]

This is incredible, thank you guys!! So happy to hear it works!

[@burnerfriends]

This really interests me as I'm kinda tempted to have one as a trigger / kit + route individual drums / loops / samples to a mixer for live processing...

[@DrumElectric]

You can absolutely do that!

[@TONY_FEZ]

All well and good however the SPD-SX PRO doesnt have 12 outputs ?

[@DrumElectric]

According to the manual it does! But I still haven’t found all of them…

[@woutervanopbergen6730]

Hi Harry! Thanks for you clear videos. Now I've got a question of my own; I've routed the click from logic to the headphone output (11-12) and want just the click to be on my headphones. But the stereo output (and 5-6?) also gets routed to my HP. Do you know how to solve this? Thanks!

[@DrumElectric]

How interesting! My first thought is the headphone routing on the SX Pro itself. So heading into the ‘audio output’ menu and seeing where everything is going. It may be the case that outputs 5-6 are sneakily in your output!

[@astudillojr]

nice, i just started trying it! There are some channels that I cannot figuere where they go out; "Sampling / Sampling(R) and Click/ Click(R)"... the rest i can use, Master/Master(R), Direct1, Direct2, Direct3, Direct4. Athough somehow what I send to Master is also played on Phones, which is not cool if i want to make some custom monitoring mixings but at least what I send to Phones is not in Master.

[@DrumElectric]

The outputs are quite the mystery! If you head into the "USB Audio" (Menu -> System -> USB Audio), it will show you where all the inputs and outputs are on the right hand side. That being said, I have no idea where the outputs are after output 8!

[@joemac7214]

Harry, imported a wave file (11megs) however when i play the tempo is to slow, how do i ncrease Tempo?

[@DrumElectric]

Annoyingly you’ll have to adjust the tempo outside of the SPD-SX Pro and re-import it from my knowledge!

[@adfeldr]

I just purchased the Maschine MK3 , I am wondering if I can somehow use it along with my Roland SPD-SX Pro through MIDI. (Just wondering)

[@DrumElectric]

Absolutely! I’d recommend doing it with a 5-pin midi cable, as then you can have both very easily talk to each other

[@spolpinka]

Помогите, пожалуйста, разобраться. Стоит ли покупать на spd sx pro пэд snare pd-140ds?

[@hoeelander]

So i have fl studio with like 7 drum mics and the spd pad. I use a 9 channel interface for recording. Im trying to get the spd as a channel in my mix but i cant figure out how to make the spd part of my main mix.

[@DrumElectric]

So fortunately it’s super easy - you’ve just got to take a jack and put it in the output of the SPD-SX Pro and put it into an instrument input on your interface. Or grab a jack to XLR and then you can go straight in, just like a microphone!

[@DragSTARXbox]

Hey Harry & Community! Ive done it this exact way (also usb driver installed and latest firmware on the SPD-SX Pro) and whenever i send out audio it appears on the pad at the "USB Audio" tab BUT only under "USB Audio IN" while there is no signal at the corresponding "USB Audio OUT" (and nothing coming from the Outs Im sending to). I didnt find any option to check / change the routing on the pad or the pc app. Anyone has a solution?

[@DrumElectric]

Oooh interesting. I’m not 100% sure as the routing confused me when I had the SPD-SX Pro when making this video. From my knowledge, you can’t change the outputs specifically. Copying in @ElectronicDrumTips to see if he knows!

[@DragSTARXbox]

@@DrumElectric Thanks for the quick reply! Really love the community and spirit on your channel so I hope someone finds this comment and knows the answer in the near future! I still didn't figure it out (wrote the original comment while on production rehearsal), so I opted for a regular USB Interface for sending Ableton playback and click.

[@DrumElectric]

Thanks so much for the kind words!! If I can make a small community of people helping people in this world of tech, I’ll be a happy drummer! (You’re absolutely a part of it, too!) So great to know you’re trying this to send audio out of Ableton. That’s exactly what I tried the first time and pretty sure I ran into exactly the same situation, and now I also just run it out of an interface! I recon it might be a limitation that needs to be updated down the line from Roland…

[@christian7700]

Hi Harry, after setting my Roland SPD SX PRO as an Audio Interface, I understood that the 1/2 output of Ableton corresponds to the "Master Out R/L" output of the Pad, the 3/4 output of Ableton corresponds to the "Direct Out 1/2" output of the Pad and finally the output 5/6 of Ableton corresponds to the "Direct Out 3/4" output of the Pad, but I can't understand what Ableton outputs 7/8, 9/10, 11/12 correspond to , could you help me? I tried every combination but without success. Thank You Harry for the Video

[@DrumElectric]

In the "USB Audio" page where we changed the driver settings, there's a list of the outputs on the right hand side. It only shows 8 though, but I'm not sure if you can scroll down or not! I am the same as you though, I have absolutely no idea where outputs 9 - 12 go!

[@woutervanopbergen6730]

@@DrumElectric Had the same problem, but figured it out with the manual; 7-8 = phones, 9-10 = used for sampling and 11-12 is just for click. So if you send out the click in your DAW to channel 11-12 en your headphone mix to 7-8 you can use the turn-knobs on the spd to control them separately. AMAZING! Good luck.

[@DrumElectric]

You are incredible, thank you SO much for commenting!!

[@jasperstainthorpe3236]

Hi Harry can I upload my spdx Sx memory stick into the pro Also do you know if you can monitor audio in while playing backing trackings in the headphone out Cheers Jasper

[@DrumElectric]

@jasperstainthorpe3236 Hey Jasper! Unfortunately you can’t upload the SPD-SX memory to the SPD-SX Pro. That would be incredible though! If you had something plugged into the Aux input and wanted to listen to it at the same time as backing tracks, all through the headphones out, yes!

[@stevebird8419]

Hi Harry. Thanks for making these videos. I'm trying to set up my SPX SX Pro for live performance. Here's what I'm trying to do: - Send a drum sound from a pad to the PA - Send click tracks (I've made) for each song from a pad to my headphones For the pad: assigned direct output to sound desk For the clicks: each click is assigned to a song using set list function, and routed to a direct output channel then to Xenyx 502 (which also has monitor feed from desk so I can hear the band). Is this the correct way to set up? Thanks for your help

[@DrumElectric]

Hey Steve, this sounds great to me - pretty much how I would set it up, too!