I'm gonna be Neil Peart...
...at least in my wettest of dreams.
Here's my new toy drumset. MAN is it fun!!!
Not only is it fun (not to mention a great cathartic outlet) to sit there and pound out rhythms, but I can also imagine sleeping with fellow musicians' girlfriends and drool down my chin without any other explanation than that i'm a drummer.
Here's my new toy drumset. MAN is it fun!!!
Not only is it fun (not to mention a great cathartic outlet) to sit there and pound out rhythms, but I can also imagine sleeping with fellow musicians' girlfriends and drool down my chin without any other explanation than that i'm a drummer.
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Maybe this'll do it. Women love guys that sweat and drool, right? Surely it can't hurt that the set is right next to a bed... :twisted:
I can already play \"Breathe\", by the Floyd boys. 8)
Are those mesh or pads? I've had a Yam DTXIII Sp for about 4 or 5 years. Triggers are about fried after kids playing on them ( got to blame somebody
Are you triggering Live midi with BFD, or Sonar Studio Drums?
This is the identical set to the OSP dd502 MkII, just labeled with the Asian company's name instead of the US importers. As a result, they cost half as much. 8)
The pads are pads, not mesh...they use standard 8\" drumheads. I hope I don't fry my triggers, as I'm not the smoothest player ever... :oops: Maybe I'll get better?
It has a MIDI out, so you can trigger an external device - I've thought about using my ZOOM as the sound module - but so far I just play through my board via the audio outs or in headphones. They sound great, even if I don't...but it's a TON of fun, and very cathartic to play, vs. the mental effort of remembering chords and keys and what-not.
As far as my \"abilities\" on the kit...I've had a coupla sessions where I could've starred in a medical training video about seizures...just couldn't keep a beat. I look like Steve Martin on the porch when he was born a poor black child in The Jerk.
But I've also had some times where I was spot on and was even able to throw in some fills and syncopation.
I can play to Floyd's Breathe and a couple other songs all the way through, and sound OK...
I guess I don't plan on taking it too seriously, since I prefer to play stringed stuff and I'll bum out if my triggers die like g's did. But I don't think it'll be a coat rack anytime soon, it's really fun. And for a coupla hunny, it's a great toy. 8)
I have mine set up with Sonar Studio Drums ( it's like a BFD type thing) and it works pretty good. Latency is about 30 msec, so I do get some false triggers. The hardest part was getting the notes right on the trigger module. Just like typical pad controllers, you can assign the note to correspond to a particular pad. It gets a bit tricky but after a few rounds it was easier.
Fun to just throw some beats down. Then go into a midi track editor and fix your mistakes in PRV. It's more realistic than finger pads like the Akai MPD I had used. I had never thought of triggering this with Sonar until about a year ago when I saw another guy using a Vdrum rig with Sonar. He's a real drummer and I'm a hack at it, but getting better. I still use the MPD to add layers of other things and to fix fills and other trigger sensitive parts.
This guy said my triggers are bad so I have to get some replacements from yamaha or some other place. Especially the kick. My son uses a DB pedal on the kick pad and it's pretty much gone!
He has helped me in song creation since he's 10x the drummer I am.
E drums are cool IMO. The wedding band I was in (subbing for a guy ) their drummer used a V drum set. Volume was easily maintained.. so the lighter dinner jazz went easy and then the rock the house part.. just turn it up in the PA.
I'd highly recommend picking up a set like this one...cheap as heck, and if your dotter beats the crapola out of it, you won't really care. The guy also carries replacement pads etc, so if you really dig the set and you fry a pad, it could be replaced.
Here's the link to his ebay store:
http://stores.ebay.com/YOKI-DRUM - Be warned, he's asian and probably speaks about 23 words of English... :shock:
The set I got is the \"608\" set; he carries a \"908\" set, but it's more expensive and doesn't look much different to me. I think it's the same drum set, but the module is upgraded; it does MIDI in AND out; the 608 set I have only does MIDI out. Not that it matters; I'm too stupid/lazy to figure out how to use MIDI anyway. :oops:
But I have it there so the adoring groupies have a nearby and comfortable (and functional :twisted: ) spot from which to watch me with dewey-eyed adoration... 8)