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Setup for your Donner DED-500P
Lemon pads cover snare, toms, kick, cymbals, ride, and hi-hat on the Donner DED-500P, with the limitations noted below.
- Snare 2-zone
- Toms 1-zone
- Kick 1-zone
- Crash 2-zone
- Ride 2-zone
- Hi-hat Continuous (kit pedal)
Module snapshot
- Brand
- Donner
- Model
- DED-500P
- Also known as
- DED500P, DED-500P
Setup details by role
Snare pad 2-zone SNARE lead on the "Data In (DB25)" harness → snare pad
The DED-500P shares the DED-500 electronics; the snare channel is dual-zone — head, rim, and cross-stick are separate articulations (Snare-Classic, Snare-Classic_Rim, and Snare-Classic_CS voices, with an X-Stick toggle for the cross-stick). Pads connect through the signal-connection harness, which ends in a multi-pin DB25 connector on the module's "Data In" port.
Tom pad 1-zone TOM1/TOM2/TOM3 leads on the Data In (DB25) harness → one per tom pad; Tom 4: 1× TRS → the discrete TOM4 expansion jack
The DED-500P manual does not confirm dual-zone tom inputs; conservatively treated as single-zone. Only the head zone will trigger; rim hits will not produce a separate sound.
Kick pad Works KICK lead on the Data In (DB25) harness → kick pad
Single-zone kick trigger. Only the head zone is active.
2-zone crash 2-zone CRASH1 lead on the Data In (DB25) harness → cymbal, or 1× TRS → the discrete CRASH2 expansion jack
Same specifications as the DED-500. Dual-zone cymbal triggering supported on the Crash inputs.
3-zone ride 2-zone RIDE lead on the Data In (DB25) harness → Ride 1 (bow/edge)
Plug the Ride input into the Lemon ride's Ride 1 output for bow + edge — no cymbal modification. The DED-500P has a single Ride input, so two of the Lemon ride's zones reach the module.
Hi-hat Continuous (kit pedal) HI-HAT lead on the Data In (DB25) harness → hi-hat pad; keep the kit's own control pedal — the module's only trigger jacks are TOM4 and CRASH2, so there is no hi-hat-control input to take over
The DED-500P reads full pedal position from its own control pedal — a three-point calibration (Open > HOpen > NClose) captures the range (pp.19–20), and a Type: Stand/Pedal setting matches the controller hardware. The hi-hat signal runs over the Data In (DB25) harness only (p.03, p.05); there is no 1/4" jack for the Lemon controller. Same as DED-500.
