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Steph,

You want use an external sampler or drum module to trigger from your original acoustic kick drum, correct?

If so you can send a direct out from the original drum channel out of the FOH rack to your sampler (Make sure your pick off is set to top of channel), then return the triggered signal back to the FOH rack on another channel. The only problem here would be that you're going through two stages of conversion which will introduce latency. If you really wanted you could delay the rest of your drums (using the multi select function) to the triggered samples till they line up.

Another thing to consider is you may want to set your pick off for the direct out to "post insert" this would allow you to gate the signal going to your sampler if necessary.

Otherwise i would look into getting a sampler on stage and triggering directly off of the drum. I think the fastest drum sampling system out ther is still the Ddrum3 which triggers at 1.5ms. This will be faster then going through the console plus you can the split the original trigger signal to another set of inputs and use those to open your acoustic drum gates.

Hope this helps.