electronic drum kits

just bought myself an alesis dm5 today. it's great! i need to get a mesh trigger for the snare though, i can't do rolls very easily with a rubber pad, heheh. but i have managed to make a sufficiently realistic sounding preset for it, except for the hihats but that doesn't matter because i hardly use hihats when drumming anyway.

i haven't hooked it up to my pc or a sampler yet, it would be interesting making breakbeat mashup stuff with one heheh. i did put the '909' kit through distortion today and rock some gabba on it though!

so let's discuss electronic drum kits here! i will definitely be using my new one in most, if not all of my future recordings, instead of sequenced beats.

I wanna get one of the ones that will teach you to drum as well as triggering shit. Do the Alesis ones do that?

i don't think there are any drum kit style ones that teach you, though i know the roland handsonic does - however that's probably not the best way to learn heheh. maybe just get some practice pads for the moment? i'm definitely not a great drummer but i've been around drum kits for a while so i'm competent at least.

i have roland v-drums and i fucking love them.

I use mesh heads with red shot triggers hooked up to a roland tmc-6 (trigger/midi converter) and have it fed into fxpansion's BFD of waldorf attack instead of using a brain.

  epsy said:

I use mesh heads with red shot triggers hooked up to a roland tmc-6 (trigger/midi converter) and have it fed into fxpansion's BFD of waldorf attack instead of using a brain.

cool, i mostly bought mine so i could do something like that.. but i need a midi to gameport cable (or usb?) or something - though i might just end up buying a decent external soundcard at some point. that way i can use it with a laptop.