Brilliant - thanks for breaking it down in such an clear, concise way. Feeling enormously relieved right now!

Yes bro PLEASE make a video about what you explained with method 3 about running your own mix... i was thinking about taking the click track n the pad and routing it to the headphones out... and running from the headphone jack str8 into a mixer for the same effect

In a small venue format where you maybe don't want to rely on an underpaid sound engineer, this is my suggestion: Run your backing track on one of the small pads on top (the "true" backing track that contains ambient synths, specifically cued samples, swells, etc... basically stripped of all live instruments/vocals), then on the small pad next to it, run a duplicate of that track but with a click from your DAW. Program the output of the true backing track to the monitor output and the copy with the click to HEADPHONES ONLY. You have the option to link them so when one either one of them is triggered, the other also starts but now only you hear the click. But this will ensure that everything within the interface is in time. PROS: - you can now enhance your set very simply by introducing sounds that are either impossible to time or even just a pain to trigger while playing in real time - In my opinion it's easier than fussing with the timing of the in-unit click track. CONS: - the drummer is solely in charge of following this track, meaning the rest of the band needs to make sure they're following the drummer's cues if there are dynamic "breaks", trickier intros to songs, or softer parts between sections. - it seems lengthy but honestly takes 5 mins to create, export as sample, and program in the SPD-SX. But this has always worked for me smoothly as long as the band rehearses!! haha do not forget to rehearse, kids!

More videos about this device please!! ❤️

This is SUCH a great, concise, informative video! Not surprised bc TB is posting it, but just needed to say something about how well done this vid is.

Just purchased this same 3 piece Tama Starclassic B/B Turquoise shatter from a shop in Philly! Love it! Found the video looking to run tracks with the new SPD-SX Pro I just picked up too!!! Cheers!

I know this is an older video, so my input might not be as relevant. The second method I wouldn't have even put in the video...pointless method. 2nd, if you are running vocal cues and a backing track at the same time, why wouldn't you import them as one wavform instead of linking pads? Vocal cues and click panned left and backing track panned right on the import track. I'm sure you are not doing a stereo mix live. That would be unorthodox. Route your click and vocal cues to a headphone amp mixer. So the drummer can turn up what they need. Everyone else can make their own in-ear mix.

Cool tutorial, I use a jam hub instead of a mixer. It’s much cheaper and the sound is great. Stereo adapters for stereo mix with every input having full mix control. These are completely portable, one of my old bands did headphone jams for years to save time and money. VKit required... or mic your acoustic kit. I also have a rack headphone amp that will also do the same thing with monitoring. I’m trying to trigger the backing tracks with a boss double foot switch. Click and track linked but it’s giving me issues. Trying to get that going so all the pads are free and click from daw and track starting together with the foot switch. For some reason I can’t them since but they both play independently... working on that. Thanks for sharing your knowledge Pete

Do not need a splitter or a sound guy, there is a subout output on the back, where you can put only click track audio and connect it to the 1st mikser input, signal from roland's phone output goes to the 2nd mikser input, bum signals seperated.

So helpful. Gentleman

Very good walk through on the possibilities of this piece of gear.

That was helpful. I do need 2 add some more sounds like the drum sound intro' 2 Prince's songs like When Doves Cry & Computer Blue, just 2 name a few.

I like how your t-shirt matches your drum kit

Great lesson - I just got a SPD-SX and have just begun my learning curve. I am a drummer over 50 years and this is new for me. Any help would be much appreciated.

Super useful video Tim. Thank you!

Very good and funny videos bring a great sense of entertainment!

Such a great channel. Useful info. You should have way more subscribers. Quality material! I run tracks for live similarly as your last option splitting into two direct boxes with my own mixer. I usually just run off an iPad though

You kick ass, Tim. Thank you.

I have my band cues(panned right) and click track(panned left) so I can use both sub outs and run them into the mixer. The backing track itself exits through the master outs that go to the mixer. Both pads would be linked and boom! Everyone can adjust their mix of band cue, click and backing track. Another method is to use a DAW with your SPD-SX. I have it set up now to play the backing track directly from the DAW. The band cue track is on a pad and is triggered by a MIDI note. I am the only one that hears the click at the moment. I can of course output that from the sub left for example and pan it all the way left. The band cue would be panned all the way to the right. Only down side to it all is hitting the click right on the nose. Practice practice practice :-) I feel that the first method is the best. I have two pads that are linked, like you also mentioned and i am outputting 3 different sounds for the band. I also by the way use the SPD-SX as my monitor amplifier. I throw it into the Audio In and route just to the headphones. On the mixer I drop my Aux's coresponding faders to zero, so the sound isn't doubled. It is unfortunate that you cannot set up a pad to JUST go to Sub out or Master, then my amplifier trick would be even nicer, because then I could actually use my Aux's faders. Nice channel! Cheers!

Can you send the output of an individual pad to a sub or aux output, or even the headphones? If so you could use method 3 and send the backing tracks and played percussion to the front of house while sending the click track straight to your own headphone mixer, no need to get the sound guy involved. Or if your not concerned about your stereo image, mix your backing tracks hard left and your click track hard right in your DAW. Then export it an load it all onto one pad. Send your left to the house and your right to your headphone mixer.

You are a Very good teacher of this device!

Dude, great video. how would a lad go about contacting you one on one for a zoom lesson on this topic further?

Great stuff Tim!!!

Great video Tim, thank you! I'm a new SPD-SX user (and intermediate logic user). At 8:25 you talk about count-ins and how you always provide a count-in for your backing tracks from Logic. Oh how I'd love to see a video on your process for working with content in Logic before it gets to the SPD-SX, including how do you the count ins and how you create click tracks, especially when it comes to audio that is not locked to a a grid or quantized. I looked but didn't see anything in your spd sx playlist, let me know if I missed anything. Thanks!

R2D2 on his shirt looks like the drum-tower to his left... beep-boop... **lol**

Tim- I'm running tracks and a click... My question- at what point do you pan the backing tracks right and click left? From Garageband? From the pad? Or run everything panned center and pan them from your mixer?

Can you make a video, on how to make your click tracks in logic?

Great video - many thanks. I just set this up using the SPD-SX Pro and it is pretty much the same. The only thing I would add on method 2 is that if you use the 'trigger reserve' option (not sure if SPD-SX has this) then it will start the backing track exactly on cue with the next inbuilt click. So as long as your backing track is exactly the right BPM then this makes method 2 a lot better. It also offers the option to using a click for the whole band and perhaps switch between several different loops. I found that I ran the actual backing track from the balanced master so it would be the same volume as my SPD-SX in the front of house mix and then used one of the direct outputs for the in ear mix which i send to our mixing desk for the rest of the band. One question though: Is there anyway to lock the pad when it is 'playing' the backing track. In the options i swapped from 'oneshot' to 'phrase' which means the pad goes from being 'poly' to mono but it still means if you hit it accidentally then you stop the backing track.

Thank you Tim! Most of my gigs are playing at churches. I typically launch the tracks using Ableton Live. I've been wanting to launch (start & stop) the tracks using a SPD-SX but I'm unfamiliar on how to use/set it up to do so. Instead of Ableton playing the drum loops, I'd like to play the loops on the SPD-SX especially if there are sections where there are no acoustic drums happening. 1. I'd love to see a video on how to work with the sound guy on how to set up the SPD-SX like you mentioned in this video. 2. In-ears on live gigs (outside of church). I typically bring my own small mixer so I can use in-ears. I get an aux feed and use a click which no one else because I'm the only one that has in-ears at the moment. I can never get my in-ear mix right. Do you use a crowd mic plugged into your mixer? So...would love to see a video on how you do that. Wow....that was a long comment.

Awesome Video!!! What’s your thought on the new SPD-SX SPECIAL EDITION??

Also, if you link pads 4+5, you also have to change the setting so the output of each pad is different, correct? One was click, one was a sample. Sample goes everywhere but click only goes to monitors or just the drummer. Can you change outputs on each pad? Or would you have to use the onboard click?

Could i start, and stop a click, and or, backing track with a footswitch, as an option, instead of hitting the pad?

Hi, how to run backing tracks and click track on roland spd sx pro inclusive a total stop pad

This is incredibly insightful. It’d be cool to get a lesson about using the different outputs on the SPD SX. Also, is there an input on the SPD SX??? I’m wondering if it’d be possible to run your monitor mix into the unit and then just plug your in-ears into it for your mix.

I run backing tracks that are sampled from my computer into the Roland. Issue is the volume upon striking the pad is all over the place. Too soft or too loud....

Hello, I’m just getting into electronic drumming and not sure what to purchase. I play acoustic drums on a worship team also on a. Cover band

Is it possible to pad link more then one track? I have a song with a break in it which means I have 2 different backing tracks for the same song and 2 different clicks as well. I'm only able to set up pad 1 with the fs1 and I would like to have the second half of the song on pad 2 with it assigned to fs2. Please let me know if you can help

Hey Tim long time bro. Hope all is well in this pandemic crisis. I have a quick question. How do you add a backing track to the pad, hit it once for start and a second time to stop it? When I add the track and hit it a second time it is overlapping. Thanks in advance.

nice video broo!!!! I hope to buy a roland very soon!!! please!!!! do a video with some talking about glyn johns technique!! pleasee!!!!!!!! your thoughts and diference!!!!

With method 2 it would be cool if you could live quantize the pad

For some reason when I route my click to Phones only, I still hear the click out of the main outputs. Any reason why this bleed happens?

... Or do I even have to worry about that, because I routed click to the sub out and the tracks to the master out.

Really great video Tim! I did some songs recently with a band and they had some tracks where the stereo right track was the backing ... and the left channel was the click and a 'little' bit of the backing... easy split for headphones and 1 channel for out front. I need to set some tracks up for my band ... would this be an ok method or would you still recommend the pad link way?!!

Well put, well educated by you Tim Buell and a great lesson as a usual user of this great device. One question, a friend/colleague has backing tracks running from his laptop in case he needs to make alterations on the go. I wanted to link my SPD-SX via midi, so I can plug in my headphones direct rather than using the packs from the engineer because the natural source from Roland is harder, battery from packs can run out too. Also as the second, third track plays the program change will change tempo. Can all of this happen. I mean is there magic in the air? Bless!

Once linking the track, and click pad- are you still able to divert to click pad signal to headphones only? Or are both both going to be going through the same outputs?

How to use a backing track from Pro-tools to the Roland SPD-SX?

Hey there nice video. Is it possible to just drag a 8 bar percussion loop in the SPD -SX just hit play and it loops it for as long as the band playing? How I do that? I have my 8 bar loops and just wanna use those for my clicks but how do I do this? Hope you are not another channel that doesn`t answer questions.

In your third example with a seperate pad for click track, can you assign the volume knob for the built in click track to the pad that has the click track?

Nice tutorial Now just one question Whenever you play the Roland pad, or like play along with the beat, how can you pause it? Stop what you're doing for a second and then get back to it?

I wonder if you can take click track from pad 5 and rout it to headphones then the drummer is only one who hears it.Great vid.

can i change kit after the backing track pad has been struck without it muting, in order do have all pads for samples?

nice as tama kit

Is there a track time limit on each pad? Say you wanted all the samples from one song on one pad.

Great video, helped me decide the 3rd method is the best way to go. Was wondering if it was possible to run a cable from the SPD-SX's headphone output to a headphone amp/distributor (Behringer powerplay 8 channel) to give more members in the band the option to hear the click? Also why is a D.I. box used before going to F.O.H?

Great video thank you 🙏😊

Hey man, great video. Thank you. In your method number 3, your click track is an “audio file” … Correct ? It’s not resolved to machine control or a sequencer or anything ... it’s kind of running “wild”… As a sample ???

At 10.50 you say you can still use the other pads while the backing tracks are going. Well, on my SPD SX special edition, you can't. The backing track cuts out after some time when I play the other pads. Is it possible that mine is faulty?

Method #4... make your backing tracks mono and have the track panned one direction and the click panned the other direction. Then you're not eating up two pads for every song.

Hey Tim. Any ideas on how to enable/disable a trigger signal with the SPD-SX? Let's say i want to overlay my snare drum (acoustic snare with a trigger) with an effect but only want the effect to be present in the chorus. Is that possible?

Thank you for all this amazing info! This is really great stuff. I just got a SPD-SX (you're right, that's difficult to say fast) and it's a little overwhelming the possibilities with it. One thing I struggle with is just figuring out what samples to even load onto it and how to start incorporating it into my music. Do you have any advice on this? I typically play set and we'll play jazz, funk, rock, or just jam. I also have another group that I play percussion and we create more chill music but it's just hard to even think of what to put on the pad to add to the sound without overdoing it.

how do you use splitter to separate click from track? what splitter would you recommend? tell please more about this or give link. thanks

Nice channel! Thanks!

Hi, Great videos. Thx a lot. Is it possible to run and link more then 2 pads, for ex 5 pads and then let them run all together and when you hit pad number 3 it gets muted but is still runs behind? So that when you hit it back it gets unmuted and it still synchro with the other tracks? (I guess not ; ) Sorry for my English Thx. All the best

Great stuff! Love the options on the SPD-SX, not super stoked about the controls and menu layout.. 2018 Roland! That being said: Next challenge for me; use method 3, but cut up intro / verse / chorus / bridge / outro and dedicate these to different pads, enabling me to hit pad ‘chorus’ when in let’s say the middle of verse 1, so that by the end of verse 1 track section ‘chorus’ starts! But.. when not hitting the ‘chorus’ pad, the tracks just follows natural order, verse 2 or chorus after verse 1! ..and all of this with countdown cues and spot-on clicktrack! 😃 I believe this is possible, but didn’t invest the right amount of time yet 😉 Do you know if this can be done?? This would be great for worship, spontanious parts, repeating sections etc. Do keep up the good work, love your channel and what you do! 😊👍🏻

Hey, I use the spdsx the same way, I pad link. My only problem is I send click and track to the headphone output on the machine itself and the track only to main out/mono, however now my band want a feed from the click track but not sure on how or what other tools I need in order to do that? Would a simple headphone splitter do this? I also use a headphone amp just for myself to have closer to my side.

If you’re running a click that’s been uploaded as a track, how do you split that out of the mix to FOH?

Great video thanks! If you use method 3 and accidentally hit pad 4/5 when using the rest of the kit, would that stop the backing track? And am I right in thinking you can route the click separately to the headphone out and the rest to front of house? Thanks again

Great Video! Question: are you able to link more than 2 pads? I noticed you linked pad 4-5, are we able to link, for example, 4-6? Only because I run, samples, click, and cues all separately. Also, how many output channels does the console have?

Great video! thank you. is it also possible to start/stop the on-board clicktrack feature with hitting one of the pads? so i dont have to aim for the small button to stop it? would love some help.

hey man, solid tutorial! Do you have a way to lock a pad while playing so it can't get hit by mistake, thereby stopping the backing track mid-song?

PAD 1 (Click Track) and PAD 2 (Back Track) linked for running backing tracks. I have set a snare drum in another pad but after rolling so loud it there was a system failure all is delayed and desynchronized. I don't know why. Very sadly if it would happened on a gig. I have the latest 1.08 firmware version... Did you happened it too? For now It happened to me once

great videos- thank you! is it possible to have 3 separate backing track songs playing one into the next? or is there a lag time to load the next song?

Hi Tim. Is there a way to start the onboard click from any of the pads?

Left another comment on another vid but this solved my question. Thanks!

I just ordered the Boss FS-6 dual foot switch pedal to scroll forward and backwards through kit chains. Do you have to route it any special way into the Roland SPD-SX? I am also using a TRS cable.

Could you use a pedal like the boss fs5l to start tracks?

Can you show us what you need to do, brand new out of the box setting up to use the SPDSX. I have the SPD20 and it has all the sounds in it you can't add sounds. I notice the SPDSX has 100 kits the first 16 are presets and the rest are ones you build with what you want. Is that right?

Nice video man. I have One question regarding the last method - is there a way to safeguard against accidentally turning off the backing track by hitting one of the linked up pads by mistake.

Hey Tim , I would like to know how do you easily have say 10 backing tracks easily recalled for a gig? We play entirely live right now however want to add keys parts to some of our songs. In other words is it easy to recall the various songs on demand. Our set can change on the fly dependant on the crowd. Cheers

is it possible to skip a kit with a footwsitch and start it (like the BOSS FS-5L)

Any other alternative for spd sx, it's kinda pricey

So what is the delay time before you can use the samples after triggering pad4 or 5 ?

Hi and thank you for your video! I have a question or maybe two ...three :) For this moment I use some program in my iPad to start and stop my backing tracks in that situation I make it like from a stereo backing track I make it in MONO and after that I put in my right side only click. Can you tell me with SPD-SX how is it the situation? Can I leave the backing tracks like stereo and how I can add the click? Hope you understood what I mean :) Regards

missed a key detail bro. how do you send click and track to separate outs in method 3........most important

Wow

How can we do live looping with SPD sx?

Great tutorial Tim, as always. A quick question, i did a click track and a loop in Reaper, then put boths inside the spd, but the thing is i always need to "adjust" the start and end of the wave in the spd and is a little bit painfull and after more or less 12 bars stars to move (also linking the two pads) Any tip? Thanks in advance!

Hey man! How are you creating your count off click tracks?

Can you speed up or slow down the track while playing live? I have a nightmare musical director, with terrible time who thinks the track should follow him, not the other way around. I’m able to accommodate that with my Yamaha DTX MULITI-12 but the onboard memory is a joke. So I’m hoping the SPS-SX Special Edition will be the answer...Please tell me it’s possible!

Great lesson! Every time i hit one loop the other one stops, How can i use 2 waves at the same time?

No worries one of my mate still call it espeedi sex till now

0:50 SPEED SEX just say it. A company who names their synthesizers after Roman gods and goddesses oh come on.

Listen, sunshine - please don't start a presentation "with is up with you ...." In England, it is seem as disparaging and condescending. Just try something polite such as hello! In this way you won't get people blocking you or switching to another video of which there are millions OK?

Dry mouth