USING A DRUM KIT FL STUDIO DRIVER
USING A DRUM KIT FL STUDIO MANUAL

Then arm the mixer strip with the DJ-202 drum machine and record ! In my setup I set a Playlist track to Audio Mode (right click). Do not enable MIDI input for the DJ-202 or you will get MIDI output when using the drum pads which will trigger things you donвЂ™t want to be triggered (unless you want to use the DJ-202 as a MIDI controller with FL Studio, if so you will have to alter something in FL Studio to ignore drum pad MIDI output). Enable MIDI input for your MIDI keyboard as well. Do not enable it for any MIDI keyboard (my keyboard is the Oxygen 49) as it freezes the device, at least it does with the Oxygen. You can see the settings that are needed in the following screenshots вЂ¦ДЄs you can see in the MIDI settings вЂњ Send master syncвЂќ needs to be enabled for the DJ-202 to sync the drum machine.

USING A DRUM KIT FL STUDIO DRIVER

There may be a way to stop this by reconfiguring the FL Studio Mixer but I moved on to using the FL Studio ASIO driver as I needed to route audio to another device вЂ¦ my USB Creative Super X-Fi headphones (ace product by the way as it gives you full surround sound in the headphones based on customising the device to your ear shape). However using the supplied DJ-202 ASIO driver leads to terrible feedback in FL Studio. The вЂњMIC RECORDвЂќ is in fact the drum machine input. Using the device directly with Serato, which is what the device is designed to do, may actually use separate inputs for MIC and drum machine. It seems that the MIC on the device and the drum machine are combined into a single input вЂ¦ or something. But вЂњMic RecordвЂќ input threw me for a while. At first I tried using the DJ-202 ASIO driver. MIDI is fine as all the controls can be mapped to any software. For a start its not exactly clear whatвЂ™s going on internally with the audio/USB engine on this device as itвЂ™s designed for Serato DJ Pro. However I found the key combinations difficult to remember which is why I made the following вЂњmemory jogвЂќ diagrams вЂ¦ДЄt first I had some problems with the DJ-202 and FL Studio.

USING A DRUM KIT FL STUDIO MANUAL

The pad presses on the DJ-202 needed to program the drum machine look intimidating at first but once you get into it in the manual it starts making a lot of sense.

IвЂ™m not even sure if you can do this with more advanced models in this range but those at least have better controls on the device for the drum machine. The drums cannot be programmed directly from a DAW.

However there is a draw back with the DJ-202. You will not get this with вЂњwavвЂќ file samples. You can see this in the recording I took вЂ¦ If you look closely these two triggered sounds of the same drum instrument look DIFFERENT. This gives a вЂњwarmerвЂќ sound because each time one of the drum instruments is triggered the sound is subtly different. The drum sounds are not samples but are generated by a special DSP chip that reproduces the behaviour of analogue circuitry used in the original Roland drum machines. Many people seem to misunderstand what this is. Even though itвЂ™s at the lower end of their range it comes with an in built вЂњTRвЂќ drum machine which uses ACB ( Analog Circuit Behavior) technology. RolandвЂ™s DJ-202 controller is an excellent affordable controller.

Playing the DJ-202 TR Drum Machine with FL Studio.

Quick Reference Charts for Drum Machine.

Using a drum kit fl studio