MegaDrum Drivers Installation Guide

First, you'll need to install USB->Serial driver.
For AVR-CDC Board use this guide below.
For FTDI Board use available guides from FTDI website

Second, you'll need to install either Roland or KAWAI Serial->MIDI driver.

Once you've finished installing the drivers, MegaDrum is ready to be used over USB.

Installing AVR-CDC drivers.

It is presumed that you've downloaded the latest software archive from http://www.recursion.jp/avrcdc/ and wrote avr-cdc firmware into Atmega8 on the AVR-CDC Board. In the directory where you unpacked the software archive you'll find a file named avrcdc.inf:


Now, when you plug the Digital Board with AVR-CDC Board into usb socket you'll see this info:

Choose the second option as shown above.

Press 'Next' and you'll see the following dialogue window:

Select the first option, check 'Include this location in the search' and browse to a folder where you found avrcdc.inf. Press 'Next'

After some time the Hardware Wizard will start installing drivers:

When it finished you'll see this dialogue:

Now we have to make sure hat the driver is using COM1 or COM2. Open Device Manager and expand 'Ports(COM&LPT)' group. In my case it was using COM19. Not good:


In this case right click on the port and select 'Properties':


In the Properties window select 'Port Settings' tab and click 'Advanced':

And in the next window change port number to either COM1 or COM2:

and click 'Ok' and then 'Ok' again.

In the Device Manager, click 'Action->Scan for hardware changes' and after that you'll see the port with the assigned port  number:


The AVR-CDC UDB driver installation is now complete but we are only half way through.

Installing Roland Serial->MIDI driver.

Download Roland Serial->MIDI divers. Unpack it anywhere on your hardrive and you'll have this files in the RDSMIDNT folder, including RDSMIDNT.INF: 

Open 'Contol Panel' and click 'Add Hardware':


In the 'Add Hrdware Wizard' click 'Next':


In the next screen select the first option:


Scroll down the list, choose 'Add a new hardware device' and click 'Next':


Select the second option and click 'Next' again:


In the presented list select 'Sound, video and game controllers':


On the next screen click 'Have Disk...':


And the browse to the folder where you unpacked the driver:


Click 'Ok':


Click 'Next':


And 'Next' again:


It will start installing drivers:


This dialogue will pop up. Uncheck everything and select the COM port which you set when installing AVRC-CDC or FTDI USB drivers:

Click 'Ok'

And click 'Finish':


Then it'll ask to reboot:


After the reboot you can see the 'Roland Serial MIDI Driver' in the Device Manager:


MegaDrum is now ready to be used in  any MIDI capable software. This is an example in MIDI-OX:

If MIDI-OX complains about opening the 'Roland Serial MIDI Input' - you have bad luck with the Roland driver just as I had with it on my laptop. Don't despair. You have another option. From Device Manage uninstall the 'Roland Serial MIDI Driver' and read on!

Installing KAWAI Serial->MIDI driver.

Download KAWAI Serial MIDI Driver. Unpack it anywhere on your hardrive  and you'll have this files in the folder you unpacked it into, including OEMSETUP
.INF: 


Use Roland driver installation instruction as guide to install KAWAI driver. After you installed the driver, open Device Manager, right click on 'KAWAI Serial MIDI NT Driver' and select 'Properties':


In the 'Driver Properties' window select 'Properies' tab, expand 'MIDI Devices and Instruments', highlight 'KAWAI Serial MIDI NT Driver' and click 'Properties' at the bottom:


In the next window click 'Settings...':


Select the port you configured when installing AVR-CDC or FTDI drivers:

Click 'Ok' and it'll ask to reboot.

MegaDrum is now ready to be used in any MIDI aware program, e.g. in MIDI-OX: