Hi,
I am thinking about a new drumkit for quite some time now. At the moment I own a Yamaha DTXpress. I like it, but it's limitations are getting in the way.
What I want is a kit which is very expressive, lots of dynamics, very good (acoustic) sounds.
I listened to some mp3's of the vdrums and played them once, but I'm not really impressed by it's sound. I also listened to the samples on the ddrum site, and I am impressed by how they sound, but I've never played a ddrum kit, but I guess that'll sound very neat. My biggest problem with the ddrum is the number of inputs and the amount of memory (and maybe after seeing those new products of roland cymbal features). If the module was really cheap, I would buy I think (or two), but since it's expensive (for me anyway), I don't consider the ddrums a very good option.
Last week I surfed to this site, www.toontrack.com/drumkit where they've made a sample cd with very high quality drum sounds. There are also some mp3's on it, and after listening those mp3's I almost fell of my chair
I think they really sound very cool.
Then I checked some prices on how expensive samplers are, and I found out that it's not very expensive.
The E-MU ESI 2000 sampler is 800-900 dollar, 128 mb second hand (4 x 32MB) ram is about 100-150 dollar, and a second hand or new external scsi disk of 2gb is 100 dollar or so. All I then need is a trigger-to-midi interface. I can then buy sample cd's of very quality, what the heck, I can even use the ddrum samples! I can also use this sampler for a lot more, like other instruments, etc.
But if my triggers to midi configuration is not so good, it's no use having super great samples. So I went looking for a good solution for that. But I still don't really have one. I was thinking of Marcel's trigger2midi-interface and the eventstation by Kurzweil.
Yet I don't really have a good feeling about them. I fear that the trigger2midi isn't as good as on like the ddrums or vdrums.
So the ideal thing would be to buy a vdrum module with pads and use that only for midi. But that's way too terribly expensive for me.
So... I don't really know what to do
I know there has been a lot of posts on whether to buy the td8 or td10, but this is kind of a new problem and I'm sure jrcel is also very interested
Any thoughts or solutions or suggestion or whatever on this?
Tom
I am thinking about a new drumkit for quite some time now. At the moment I own a Yamaha DTXpress. I like it, but it's limitations are getting in the way.
What I want is a kit which is very expressive, lots of dynamics, very good (acoustic) sounds.
I listened to some mp3's of the vdrums and played them once, but I'm not really impressed by it's sound. I also listened to the samples on the ddrum site, and I am impressed by how they sound, but I've never played a ddrum kit, but I guess that'll sound very neat. My biggest problem with the ddrum is the number of inputs and the amount of memory (and maybe after seeing those new products of roland cymbal features). If the module was really cheap, I would buy I think (or two), but since it's expensive (for me anyway), I don't consider the ddrums a very good option.
Last week I surfed to this site, www.toontrack.com/drumkit where they've made a sample cd with very high quality drum sounds. There are also some mp3's on it, and after listening those mp3's I almost fell of my chair

Then I checked some prices on how expensive samplers are, and I found out that it's not very expensive.
The E-MU ESI 2000 sampler is 800-900 dollar, 128 mb second hand (4 x 32MB) ram is about 100-150 dollar, and a second hand or new external scsi disk of 2gb is 100 dollar or so. All I then need is a trigger-to-midi interface. I can then buy sample cd's of very quality, what the heck, I can even use the ddrum samples! I can also use this sampler for a lot more, like other instruments, etc.
But if my triggers to midi configuration is not so good, it's no use having super great samples. So I went looking for a good solution for that. But I still don't really have one. I was thinking of Marcel's trigger2midi-interface and the eventstation by Kurzweil.
Yet I don't really have a good feeling about them. I fear that the trigger2midi isn't as good as on like the ddrums or vdrums.
So the ideal thing would be to buy a vdrum module with pads and use that only for midi. But that's way too terribly expensive for me.
So... I don't really know what to do

I know there has been a lot of posts on whether to buy the td8 or td10, but this is kind of a new problem and I'm sure jrcel is also very interested

Any thoughts or solutions or suggestion or whatever on this?
Tom
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