Roland TD-17KVX Setup Guide

What's going on everyone Nik constant here and welcome to another video on the channel where I'm going to show you how to set up the paper on the TV 17 electronic drum set. If you're a fellow Philadelphia School District music teacher, you may have received one. of these drum kits from the district office or maybe you ordered this particular drum because it's the Christmas season so in this video I'm going to show you how to set up this drum from scratch so you have a visual idea of ​​what we're going to do. . Start by setting up the rack system and then add any additional components.

Let's get started now, here we are with the two boxes you need to properly configure your function on the TD 17 kit. What we have here is the box number. 1 this bigger one that has everything you need in regards to your drum pads, your cymbal pads, the brain module that produces all the sounds and that everything connects to and then the next box here, this is your rack system , the compact NDS, so before you try to unbox this, make sure you have both boxes before you start setting up. The first thing we're going to do is set up the rack system, so we'll open up the MDS compact case and lay it all out for you.

These are additional small components, but we'll get to them later. What you will see here. These are the main components for setting up your rack system for your Roland TD 17 drum kit. It's very similar to the other Roland kits with just a couple of adjustments here. and there, just like the others, you have your center post here, it's this H-beam. You'll notice that on one side you have two connections and on the other side you have one connection, the left side with the two connections is because we are One of the curved tubes will connect to the top and then our snare tube will connect to this and then on this side there is a curved tube so we can connect our floor tom and a couple of cymbals, now what you want.

To see here are those components that connect to those top connections on that H-beam over there, so you'll notice that you have two legs here and one is a little bit longer than the other, the longer one on the left side of the battery and the curved tube that only has two connections is the curved tube that goes on the left side, the curved tube with the three connections will go on the right side here and then we will connect this leg to it. So the first thing we want to do is lift up this center H-beam and you'll notice that on the other side we have some of these turnkey wing nuts that allow us to loosen these hardware.

What we want to do is just twist them to loosen them and then twist the fitting outwards and then do the same thing with the other side, so release it, twist it to the side, we'll fix those adjustments later, you don't have to worry. If it falls over or something while we're here, we might as well unfold the box post, so with these connections here for the curved beams we want to make sure they fan out, we don't want them to go straight. in any direction here, so you're just looking for now until we get the rest of it together, so to make sure those curved tubes fit, we need to take our battery wrench here and we want to loosen the You don't want the connection to come loose a little bit. and as I mentioned before, we'll grab the curved tube that only has two fittings.

Now when you put this into the rack system, you're going to want that curve to loosen up. away from your drummer and then you just insert it here like this now once inserted don't worry about tightening it yet because you may have to adjust it and turn it so leave it in and then grab the longer leg so that the one that's on the left one and connect it to the end here so now you can see that those two legs in the middle are flat on the ground, just like the left leg. Now we have to repeat the process on the right side so that you can now see it once.

You repeat that process on the right side so all four legs are flat on the ground and then you like it. I said the curved tube on the left side has the two clamps and on the right side we have the three legs on the right side. shorter than the leg on the left side. Now that we have this

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, we can insert the tube for the box, so as you can see in this tube, it is closed on one end and open on the other. The open side is what goes. to connect right here, just like we did before, we're going to take the drum wrench, we're going to loosen this tension rod and then we're going to insert this one, you're going to insert this tube all the way in until you can't go any further and then I'm going to show you with the Support Mechanism of snare that connects to this, how you can slide it back and forth to adjust your snare stand, but for now let's put this tube in this clamp, so once you insert it, you're going to take the drum key, tighten it and now. you're ready to go now you're going to notice that you have three cymbal arms, two or longer than the other, we're going to keep them to the side until we put the drum pads on this rack system, so that's the way we can move some of these clamps to make sure our cymbals are in the right places, so here are some smaller components that are in that rack system box.

You'll notice that you have three clamps here, which are for your two rack toms and floor tom, you have three arms and then you have this big contraption here which is for your snare, so the first thing we're going to do is grab these two clamps and we're going to put one on each post here at the top. So what you want to make sure you do is you take your clamp and then you have this connector here pointing away from your drummer. Notice how the Roland logo is now facing outwards, so you loosen this connector here, insert it like this, and then. just tighten that there, now repeat the process on the other side, so once you do that, you're going to grab the L arms that we had and now you're going to connect them to that rear adjustment.

Notice how we're connecting them on the outside of the accessory which will give us enough room to adjust those rack toms so they're set up correctly now we do the same on the right side. Okay, now notice here that the L arms are not sticking up, they are angled towards the drummer that will allow your rack toms to be angled slightly towards the drummer instead of sticking up if they are sticking up and the toms are flat, you may run into a problem where you accidentally hit the edges of the drum, so that's why we have them at an angle, so now that we have them set up, we need to do the same thing here on the right side, so this is what I want you to think about as you set this up.

I want you to see these two clamps on the outside of the bar, these two here are going to be used for our cymbal stands, the middle one is going to be used for our floor tom, so what I'm going to do is just loosen it up and then slide it back on. We're doing a bit of an estimate here, so we don't know exactly where it's going to go, but you just want to loosen it up and have it in place. Notice how I turned that swivel key out that way, when we grab our L-arm, it's going to insert. right here and it's out of the way and it doesn't accidentally hit like it would there, so once it's in place, we tighten it up, we're ready to go.

Notice that everything rotates and it will allow you to adjust the floor tom pad, which I'll show you. later, now we're just going to tighten this so it doesn't move and we're done. The last thing we want to put on is our snare holder here, so you'll see this actually fits into the tube right here, so we want to loosen this fitting and then slide it into place, I'm just twisting it because I only have one hand, since I'm holding my camera with the other hand. Now, once you have it in place, simply tighten it and you'll be ready to start again.

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as well, this is something we will adjust once we have the pad in our rack system, but for now we have a good template, now we have one more clip here, this clip is actually what will connect your brain sound module . the rack system so what you want to do is take this clip again with this attachment pointing away from the drummer and it's going to slide onto the left arm like this and then we're going to tighten it up so what's going to happen once we get to attach the brain. module that will be suspended from this bracket here and now you can see that our rack is set up correctly, it is standing on its own, we have all the clamps and L arms attached so we can connect the battery modules to the rack system.

Now it's time for us to open the TV box 17:00. Well, if you look here, these are the pads and the brain sound module for your TV 17. You'll notice that you have four drum pads, one of them a little bit bigger than the other three and then you have four cymbal pads and again one It's a hair bigger than the others, not much, you also have your kick tower here, so now what we want to see first is setting up the toms and the snare, so here If you look, since we have three that are the same size, those will be our Toms, it doesn't matter which one goes where because once you connect everything, the sounds come from your brain module, here, the box; however, it is a little larger when you unpack this, however, you will notice that this wing nut here is actually taped to the drum, so when you take it apart, be sure to look for it and then attach it immediately so it doesn't grow . legs and walk away, so let's go ahead and put the box module in first, so we're going to go to our box part here and insert it like this and tighten it, so now notice that I didn't drop it all the way. you want to have a little bit of room there so go down a little bit and then if you have to adjust the height you can move it up or down but the last thing you want to do is let it drop all the way to the bottom and then tighten it down.

Now let's go ahead and plug in our two rack toms, so we're going to grab all three and bring them in, so you're going to grab one of your tom pads. We'll make sure this is okay. loose so that that way there's no tension on the fixture on the inside and we're going to insert it into that L arm again, without going all the way down just a little bit and we'll have it slightly angled so we're going to do the same thing with the next one to make it loose and secure, so what we want to do here is not have as much angle on shelf one so that we can put an angle on shelf two, they don't have to touch each other. but you want them to be fairly close together so that it's easier for the drummer to go from drum 1 to drum 2.

Last but not least, we need to place the floor tom, but before we do that, look here, our snare is kind of in the way and it's kind of in the middle, we actually want this to be a little bit to the left, so what we're going to do is loosen the clamp on the drum bar and move it to the left a little bit. little bit and we're going to tighten it up there so then we can loosen up this attachment here and slide the drum up so it looks a little bit more like a drum set, snare rack, tom one, tom two, and now We can put the floor tom on its place like the others.

We want to make sure it's loose so it fits on the L arm and then secure it like this again, don't go all the way down and we're going to tighten it up. keeps it in place now when you're setting up floor toms you don't want the floor tom to be tilted away from the drummer you want it to be if you have any kind of angle tilt it towards the center of the kit towards your drummer so to do that just loosen this fitting here, that wing nut and then you can slide everything down so you have a slight angle towards your drummer and now if you want to do the same thing with your snare, you loosen this fitting here and since it's about a ball bearing, you can tilt it down just the hair, usually when setting up a drum set you place the snare and floor tom either at the same level with each other or your floor tom is slightly lower if it is taller.

It can be difficult to transition from your snare to your floor tom, so just lower it a little until you see that they are level or slightly lower now from the toms you'll see here. The rack tom 2 actually looks pretty good with that. Tom 1 on the angle rack looks pretty flat, so what we're going to do is just loosen this fitting here and then adjust the height and lock it in place. Now all of our drum pads are set up on the rack ready to go, so the next step is When placing the cymbal arms here, what we really want to do is use that shorter arm for our ride cymbal that will go on the right side and then these longer ones will be our crash cymbals. on the left side, the other ones will go to the right side, so the first thing we want to do, since this is the shortest one, just take this one and bring it to the right side of the kit, we're going to use this clamp here, so Let's loosen that turnkey style wing nut and slide it that way when we attach this cymbal stand to the clamp that holds the symbol between the Tom 2 rack and the floor tom, put it in place and then just tighten it down with that. wing nut over there, well, once you do that, you'll noticethat the cymbal arm we actually want to be at a little bit of an angle away from the drummer and then what we want to do is loosen this adjustment here and then tighten. this top and then lock it in place so now what we want to do is put a cymbal on it so the first thing you need to do is loosen this wing nut and remove the felt let's go ahead and grab our ride cymbal now looking These cymbals can be hard to see which one is our ride cymbal, so if we turn them over, obviously this one is for your hi-hat because it has a hi-hat clutch attached look at our cymbals here, they all have numbers on them, see why 12, see and even it says it's a crash, same with this one, so those are our two crashes, the other one is a cy 13 R which stands for ride cymbal You'll also notice that we have two outputs, one is for the bow and edge of the cymbal and the other it's for the bell on this cymbal, so let's take this one and bring it into the kit now.

When you go back to the kit, notice that we have this lip and we want to make sure that that lip is level and facing towards your drummer because if we look at the back of the cymbal pad, it has a crease that lines up with that. So now when you put that in place, you'll see the symbol pointing towards your drummer, reinsert the felt on top and the wing nut and go ahead and tighten that. Now when you tighten it, make sure you don't. Don't squeeze it until it stops, you just need a little to get the cymbal to move a little.

If this were a real symbol, if you squeeze it all the way it will be quite dangerous and you could break the saucer, so this allows you to have proper practice to make sure that the saucer is set up correctly and can move, so that You may notice that the ride cymbal hangs a little bit over the rack tom, so let's slide it down a little bit more and then we'll come back and that's more like that, so now let's go ahead and take one of these longer cymbal arms and attach it to the right side here, so this is going to be our shock symbol which is on the right side of the battery, let's make sure we loosen this fitting, insert the bracket like this, once you have it in the right place, then we'll tighten it up nice, now which is in place, we're going to do the same thing with the top here that we did with the last one, loosen this, make sure the lip is lined up towards the drummer and then tighten this cell, then we'll remove this wing nut and the film, so now let's take one of our crash cymbals, now like our Tom's, it doesn't matter. which one you grab, as long as it says CY 12c for crash, you're ready now, notice again that there is a crease at the bottom of the cymbal that lines up with the lip that's on your stand again, insert the felt and don't squeeze. all the way so you have a little bit of movement, now we need to do one more on this side, we're going to insert that cymbal into this one here, so we want to make sure we loosen it up and slide it in a little bit, so once you've got this in place just like the others, grab the cymbal arm insert like this and then tighten that adjustment right there, so just like the others we're going to loosen our wing nut, remove the felt and again the fold lines up with the lip. at the bottom of the cymbal insert I felt like we tightened our wing nut just a little bit, there we go and now you can see we're all set up.

The last thing we need to insert is the brain module right here, so I brought the brain module to the battery and you'll notice that in one of the boxes you'll see a bunch of little accessories. This is one of those accessories that connects to the back of this module, so if I turn it over, you'll notice it. that connects here and then this is what suspends from that clamp, so before we do that we're going to connect the cable to the back of this module and then we'll connect it now thanks to the very kind people at Roland.

They've already created something that's coiled and tied so you don't have to worry about having a bunch of messy cables, so what we're going to do is take that end and connect it to the back of the module so you can notice that those cables are you want facing up, away from the clamp mechanism that's going to hold underneath, so once you get them in place, squeeze both ends together and that's it, now that it's connected, we're going to take this fixture and we're going to connect it, so what you want to do is rotate it so that this post sticks out on the left side.

You'll see there's a rail there, just slide it into place and push. until it clicks, now you're ready to go, so now you take your module and you insert it into this rear fitting here and then you tighten it down nice, now that it's attached, you'll notice that you have an extra clamp here, don't worry because it's extra if for some reason you don't have the advanced hi-hat system set up like this TV 17, you would have to use it, but since we have that advanced hi-hat system you have to use an external hi-hat. -Support Now that we have this brain set up, it's time to connect what we have in the kit so far to this module, so we're going to grab this giant snake and we're going to swing it around the kit, you'll notice. some of them are shorter than others because some of these pads are closer to that brain module so we're going to start from the near side and work our way to the far side so this first one here is a blue fit and it says t1 which means Tom one, which is here, so we take Tom one.

You'll notice there's a spot up there and you just plug it into the next one, here it says H H, which means hi-hat, so we're just going to hang up. ended up like this because we don't need it yet, okay the next one says t2 which means Tom will plug it back into the output and you're good, move on here, it looks like it says s and R which means for the snare, now with this pad on particular, you'll notice that the output is below, so because it's below, we have to go down and enter the next one here, it's a green label that says C r1, which means crash cymbal, so if we look up here in our crash cymbal, left side locks, crash cymbal one, you'll notice there's an exit there and here we go, let's move on to the next one, it says h HC, which means hi-hat controller, let's move. here it's closer to the brain because we'll use it later, the next one says ki k, which actually connects to our kick tower over here, we'll leave it right there between the two bars of our center H beam and we'll do it.

We'll get to that later so now the next one is a green label that's a little hard to see and get my camera to focus on but it says Rd which means ride saucer so now when you look at your ride saucer you'll see that you have two exits, one is the edge of the arch and the other is the bell. This connection only the Rd is going to connect to that arc edge exit, so now the second one says Rd B which means ride Bell, so what we have to do is delete. this cap and then insert it into the Bell output, so okay, one thing you'll notice with that wiring harness is that we don't have a connection for that crash cymbal on the right side of the kit, on the right side, like I mentioned before.

You need an extra cable and luckily Roland supplies it, so you'll notice that at the ends you have a straight cable and a 90 degree cable. We'll take that straight end and connect it to the trigger. that locked entry, then we're going to grab the 90 degree end and walk over to the other side of the kit and then underneath we're going to go into that Bo edge, which is basically our crash cymbal. Exit now, the reason you want that 90 degree fit is because now you see that it's out of the way of everything that's going to make it easier to play.

The next step we want to do is set up our kick tower, so let's go. To grab this, luckily it comes pre-assembled in the box and what we're going to do is place this kick tower in the middle of our center H-beam. Now when you set up your kick tower, you'll want the platform to be aligned with those two. If you have this in too far, the kick pedal will be too close to your drummer, so with it here in line you will be in a good position, so once you grab the cable that is labeled ki K, you will look at the logo from v-dubs and you'll look underneath and you'll see that that output is there so let's try to insert this and now you're ready to go so now everything that came in those two boxes are set up and what you see in front of you you have your brain module here that produces your sounds you have your drum snare Tom one two and the floor Tom you also have a crash cymbal ride cymbal and an additional crash cymbal that you can However, please note that we are missing a kick pedal, a Hi-hat support and hi-hat controller.

Unfortunately, with this drum kit you need an additional hi-hat stand as I mentioned before, as well as a kick pedal. Unfortunately, those things are sold separately. Now, if you didn't buy those things but have some for an acoustic drum kit, you can use those instead. In this case, we have a new Roland hi-hat stand that we'll open and set up in case you have exactly this. model, you will know exactly how to set it up, so here are the three components that are inside the hi-hat box, you have the bass, then you have the middle part and finally you have the rod that goes there to adjust. your hi-hat, so the first thing we want to do is set up our base, so we're going to slide these two pieces out of the way, you're going to take this part here and just lay it flat, you'll notice. there's a drum key attached, so we're going to remove that drum key, so once you remove that drum key, notice that it has a hook here on each end, what you're going to do is loosen these wing nuts, but not all the way until they come out just a little bit, so that way you can get those hooks to lock on both sides, so once you connect the hooks with those tension rods, just hold them in place, grab the wrench of the drum and squeeze both sides, okay?

We've got both sides tight, we know that's going to stay in place, so we're going to lift the hi-hat, we're going to loosen and expand the legs. Now you see that it is a nice and sturdy base, so let's tighten it. That and we're ready to go, so now the next step is to grab that little rod. You'll notice there's a thread on one side that you insert here and you turn it clockwise as far as you can. If you don't turn it further, it won't use all the thread, so don't be alarmed if it stops and you have more thread left, so now that you have it attached, the next step is to take this center part and insert it.

So, the only thing you're going to notice is that it's pretty high for a hi-hat, so we're going to take our drum key, we're going to loosen this memory lock right here and that will allow us to lower it just a little bit. a little bit more once you do it, press here and now you're done. I would recommend leaving this unlocked for now in case you need to adjust it, raise it or lower it, but now that it's set up, I like to hide it. The leg goes over the bar and is now set up so we can set up our hi-hat module.

Okay, when you open everything up you'll see this little accessory bag that has this flat plate that we really need this for. the hi-hat module so let's walk over to our hi-hat stand now with the hi-hat stand you'll notice that they usually have a metal washer and a felt you can remove both and insert this which now replaces those two things you want the foam side face up, so what we're going to do is take this, this is the bottom of our hi-hat controller, we're going to place this side down on top of that foam. pad from there notice it says driver out so we can take that cable that was labeled hi-hat driver or hhc and input it into the output so what we're going to do is take our hi-hat pad We're going to make sure that this nut butterfly is loose so that it doesn't stick out in the center, but we don't want to loosen it to the point that it falls off.

Insert it into the hi-hat stand, so a Thumb rule here, you want this hi-hat pad to raise it slightly, you don't want it to rest because it acts as an open hi-hat and a closed hi-hat, so what I would really do is just choose Raise from the center clutch and tighten like I did there, allowing you to have a little gap so that when you step on the pedal it closes the hi-hat, which might actually be a little too high for you to adjust. consequently, whatever is comfortable for your drummer, you just want to have some sort of opening, so now we can walk over to the other side of the kit, we can grab that other table that's labeled hh4 hi-hat and we're going to plug it in. the output of our hi-hat sensor pad, so now we have a hi-hat set up ready to go, so now the last thing we need to connect is a kick pedal, as I mentioned before, this drum kit does not have a kick drum. pedal so if you already have one any kick drum pedal will do for example the one I have here is just a classic Ludwig Atlas kick drum pedal this is a dual chain driven kick drum pedal and what we're actually going to do is to make sure this connection here is loose enough so that this parttop is tall enough to fit on the kick tower, so what you'll see here is that you have those two points on the bottom that will go under the kick trigger and then This will hold it in place, so if we We head over to the bass drum tower, what we want to do is raise this up and see how it slides into place, so now once you do that, we're going to get to the back of the kit, you just want to make sure that the mallet of the kick drum is touching the center of the pad.

Look how this one is slightly offset to the right, so we have to slide it a little bit. hits in the middle, so now what do you want to do from here if you have a kick pedal like this that requires a drum wrench to tighten it? This is where we grab our drum wrench and tighten this fitting right here to keep it in place now we don't have to worry about the pedal falling off if you have a different style pedal many of them have a wing nut here that you can turn with the hand, but those tend to be the two of the most common ones, so now you can see that our battery is complete, we have everything set up, everything is connected, the final step is actually supplying power to our brain module, so if you put a look down here, you'll notice that there are two components to On our power strip we have components one and two, so what we're going to do is take this end here, connect it to the brick and then this end here goes to the DC input, like this that I'll plug it in and then I'll go to the right.

Back so you can see we're plugged in here so all we have to do is plug into an outlet and we're ready to go now if you want because you can see we're a little tangled with all of our cables. here you'll see that you have a package like this that has clips that allow you to hold all of that in place, so I'm going to open this up and we'll go around the kit and secure those cables just to Clean it up a little bit, okay, now with those clamps you can put them anywhere anywhere you want, but generally what I'll do is put one closer between the hi-hat and the snare stand, then I put another one here and then we'll put the last two, one here and one here, it will allow you to keep them together so they don't get tangled all over the floor, but that's it, your battery is set up and ready to go.

Now there's one last thing. which is optional, you'll notice that here you have a little lip on your brain module. Now if you look closely you will see that there is a blue tooth logo, so believe it or not, you can connect a cell phone to a small mobile. device or a tablet to this and run sound, so Roland was kind enough to give it a lip to attach it to, so you can hold a cell phone, maybe a small mp3 player or something on top, so I What you want to do is remove that double stick tape and then just stick it in place and that's it, that's it.

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