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Board pins to drums in Megadrum FX Manager

PostPosted: Wed Nov 12, 2025 8:32 pm
by madpsychot
I'm at the beginning of my biggest project yet. I'm going to convert a full acoustic set into an eDrum set, making my own drum triggers (but not my own cymbals). With the first tests I've done, I can see that hooked up to Addictive drums or Superior Drummer I'm going to be having some fun!

Here's the issue I've run into. Looking at the megadrum board, I can see that pins are numbered 1 to 40.

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According to the pinout diagrams, pin 40 is ground, and pin 4 is the kick drum tip. Except when I connect those two pins to an test drum, in ManagerFx, somehow I can only change the note that is played from pin 4 if I select Aux8R.

Am I doing something wrong here? My ManagerFX is configured to 56 inputs, and I've factory reset my megadrum as well.

Re: Board pins to drums in Megadrum FX Manager

PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2025 7:05 pm
by dmitri
madpsychot wrote:According to the pinout diagrams, pin 40 is ground, and pin 4 is the kick drum tip. Except when I connect those two pins to an test drum, in ManagerFx, somehow I can only change the note that is played from pin 4 if I select Aux8R.

What pinout diagram did you see that in?

Re: Board pins to drums in Megadrum FX Manager

PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2025 8:27 pm
by madpsychot
In the schematics section:

http://www.megadrum.info/sites/default/ ... _kicad.png

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Am I reading this wrong?

Re: Board pins to drums in Megadrum FX Manager

PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2025 10:58 pm
by dmitri
This is very old full DIY Inputs board schematic. The pinout for the MegaDrum kit is in "MegaDrum kit - instruction manual 20170127.pdf" in viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1420

Re: Board pins to drums in Megadrum FX Manager

PostPosted: Fri Nov 14, 2025 5:57 am
by madpsychot
Thanks Dmitri

I didn't realise how old those schematics were - there were linked directly from the home page so I assumed that there were universal schematics for any generation of megadrum

A big thank you for the link - this schematic makes waaayyy more sense to me now!