I am considering getting the Roland acoustic drum triggers and using InTrigger for live bands. Just unsure how it all works. Are samples included? Are there any additional pieces of softwares needed?
What are you are unsure about?
There are tutorials out there, you can download the manual before.
We used it on 2 tours now (one arena tour, one club tour), works like a charm.
There are some samples with it, but you can use everyone you can imagine (the f.e. used some Slate samples and some of Superior Drummer).
Use your Roland trigger as “microphone”, insert InTrigger as first instance on that channel and set mix to 100% (pure sample sound).
But you can easily insert it on you f.e. snare and just mix in the sample this way without using a trigger module. Gate function in InTrigger is superb.
One thing we noticed - even with Titan X10 servers, triggering all (kick, snare, 4 toms) could lead to crackle on bigger tom fills. It seems that streaming samples is still not optimized, so it needs pretty decent peak power (average is very low). So with about 45% average load on the Titan X10 it couldn’t handle big tom fills without crackle.
We just skipped the tom samples, as we don’t needed them (I just used them as “clean” feed for verb).
On other thing: Intrigger is about 1ms latency which is unbeatable. We used Pearl MiMic pro before with 4.5ms latency and Roland TD-50 (the flagship), which also hat 4.6ms latency.
And with Intrigger it’s easier to align to your original signal.
Thanks so much! You covered all my questions. I will be using an LV1 classic and not a large number of channels. My CPU usually stays 30-40%.
The Velocity mode is kind of unpredictable. The CPU goes up and down when using this. So make sure you have PLENTY of headroom if you use this mode.
Other than that it’s pretty straightforward. A lot of samples included.
Thanks for the tip …. will definitely watch for this!
Hey Joe,
we experienced this also, when InTrigger first came out. In 2025 we were using Titan X10 Servers on a 96kHz SuperRack session an the AVG sat around 40-45%, but on almost every tom-fill or sometimes within a groove we got peaks that lead into crackle.
This year we upgraded to Titan X14 and the then newest releases (speaking of June 2026) and the server wasn’t peaking anymore. It sat on AVG around 25% and you couldn’t see any spiking even on the heaviest fills (for testing I mad a loop on a heavy fill and let it run for a while).
So I guess with actual server firmware and plugin version it seems they fixed this issue (but didn’t test it on 48kHz to be honest), but this is no scientific proof.
I use it on my kick drum live and in the studio. Helps to have the same kick-ish on every mix. I use the normal version in low latency instead of the live version. That way I can make the velocity more consistent by going to the midi tab and raising the min value. That strangely changes the triggering behavior and not just the midi. It goes after my ssl channel which is gated so it triggers fine. I can either replace or blend easily. So far so good for me with it!
Thank you for taking the time to reply, I appreciate it !
Thanks! So far I have only used it on Kick Drum live since I am just getting started with the LV1 mixer but I was very impressed with how well it worked and how good it sounds