How to..Midi Drums

Hi. Some time ago I had a perfect setup with midi drums on my pc. Now I dont remember how I sat it up. What I want to do is: Record with my digital drumkit with reaper and hear the guitar track in my headphones. And After recording just click play to hear the drums. Im not sure how I did it, but just recording the midi drums and pressing play gave me no sound, So I think I routed it into a new track and that track played the midi part. I guess what im trying to say, does anyone have a guide or something?

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but maybe I can help. I use drum software (Addictive Drums, Superior Drums 2.0 etc.) in conjunction with my Roland TD-3 electric kit. Enable the metronome. Create a new track and set its input to that of your MIDI input. Insert your plugin on the track, enable monitoring, hit record enable and as you hit your drums, it should trigger the drum software samples. You didn't mention if you're using a plugin for your drum track(s), but I'm guessing that you're not simply recording MIDI and having it trigger nothing? Please clarify.

Response from drummer 

Hi... I use a TD3-K Roland drumset and EZ Drummer to trigger it... Maybe you know of a guide for dummies or something :P Bones

My guess is the midi was recorded, but there's no midi returning back to the drum brain for playback. I recommend that you record the audio instead of the midi, or record the midi on 1 track and stereo in on another for maximum flexibility. Ignore me if I misunderstood :)

Thanks for answers. Going to try to hoock it up again tomorrow. Im sure I will have some more questions then hehe Thanks

Yes it finaly works again. thanks for all the input guys. Now we came across another problem with the midi drums. When we are recording the midi track stops recording. This is at a different time depending on the recording. Everything looks very good until the track goes in just a straight line. And when we play it the straight line has no sound. Its very strange since it works perfect earlier in the song. Any idea whats wrong? Im going to try to take a photo of it, the pc we tried it on dident have a print screen button

New info on the problem 

Here is our problem or atleast very similar: As you can see, there is one solution that might work: Try this, In cubase go to: DEVICES->DEVICE SETUP->WINDOWS MIDI Check: Use System Timestamp How do I do that in reaper?

Some more strange stuff happend here the otherday, We installed the soundcard driver again after getting the same results in cubasis. Then the overload stopped somehow, but served us with a latency proble instead. SO we got so tierd of this midi stuff and went back to acoustic drums + drumagog. works pretty good. So anyone have some awesome metal adjustments for drumagog?