Thank you for this!   I was going to sell my td20x but now have it connected to my td50x for a huge selection of drum kits.

Hey Dennis, greetings from the UK.  Another good video, this time on the capabilities of midi.  I have been using midi for quite a while and link my 50x, TD30 and SPDSX Pro.  I have the transmit and receive switched on so that all the kits change at the same time.  Only because for live this makes life a lot easier than fumbling around between songs trying to remember which kit fits with another (although I probably have more time than I think waiting for our guitarist as he continues tuning up lol!).
Having got so frustrated with the cymbal sounds on the 50x I have reverted to connecting all my cymbals to the TD30 and assigning the midi notes to both modules - it works great so much so that I'm also gonna go back to some of my favourite drum sounds in my TD30 and do the same.  I find it a great way to expand the kit and also avoid trying to sample.  I have sampled sounds from my SPDSX Pro into my 50x but it hasn't quite felt right when I play it.  I probably need to spend more time refining the sample but midi is just quicker and easier imo.
One issue that I have come across, and I don't know if this is anything to do with midi, is that occasionally I have had what I can only describe as a machine gun which lasts for about a second or two.  I don't know if that is because of the midi set up or something else.  But it happened when I had my TD30, TD20 and SPDSX connected as well as when I changed my current set up.  Its very random, I can go weeks/months without it happening, but its not great when it happens at a gig!  Any ideas?

Im trying to get sounds from yam dtx 700 midi through Roland td 12..because o love the bigger mesh pads.. trying to fig out..any ideas..thanks

It’s just me or This video has an high pitch frequency on it

Watching this video gives me an idea. Assuming the new hardware isn't any better than the old, How about using the 50X as the master and the V71 as the slave? Someone could save a ton of money by purchasing the V71 module alone, and using their 50X and old pads to trigger the V71 sounds. What do you think about that?

Thanks for this Dennis. I just bought an 8 channel mixer (Behringer Flow 8) and will use it like you explained.
Where do you find the 'program change' in the menu's?
And a question concerning the mixer; do you connect your headphones to the mixer or do you route back from the mixer (out) to the V71 (in) and connect headphones to the 71?

Hi Dennis. So I bought some midi cables and connected the 71 to my 50. Headphones into the 50 and everything worked. So I use an iPad for music to play along with. Unplugged that from the 71 into the 50 and that worked.

So…you mentioned the Zoom L12 mixer and that your computer is plugged into that. I know you use SD3 a lot, and after a lot of struggling I also got SD3 to work.

I’m a newbie at all things midi. Are you somehow using the L12 as a midi pass through and that’s why you plug your computer into it?  I don’t have all the gear you have so I think a 4 channel mixer is all I need (V71, TD50, iPad, Laptop).

Thanks for your help here and on FB and for all the great content.

Is there any way i can have two working hihat cc on v71