102. Error message: "Your current drum kit has no bass drum note assigned".

Symptoms

You get one of the following error messages when you try to play a song:

• "Warning: Your current drum kit has no bass drum note assigned".

• "Warning: Your current drum kit has no snare drum note assigned".

Solution

One possibility is that you have modified your drum kit, but you did not assign a MIDI note number to one or more of the drum sounds. Go to Opt. | Preferences | Drum Kit, and check to make sure that none of the drum sounds have been assigned to "0". For General MIDI drum kit definitions, the default note number for the Bass drums is 35, and the default note number for the Snare drums is 38. Assuming that you are not using a non-General MIDI synth, you can set the bass and snare drums to those values.

Another way to resolve the problem is to close Band-in-a-Box^® and delete the file MySetup.dk from your Band-in-a-Box^® folder (usually C:\bb). Note that this will return some settings back to factory defaults. See this FAQ topic for information on which settings are affected by this file. If you have previously modified/customized any of these settings, you should make a backup of your .dk file before deleting it.

Thank you for the advice. You can allow external synchronization, especially if it didn't require a special board such as MIDI-NES. But I'm still in favour of playing directly on the drums. I at least like to read that it's better to get a cheaper one, but by function the same thing. All sorts of chips on playing, and yes in general the opinion of experienced drummers. For myself I found simplydrum.com, you could use their opinion too, what's better and what's worse. What do I do if the values are all correct, but still get the error that my drum kit is not assigned a snare note?