Hello all! THIS IS NOT AN AD!!!I am the manufacturer of a new "E-Drum" type, electronic drum in the Baltimore area and step by step we are dialing in the response with the drums. The drums were originally developed using the Alesis D-4 and DM-5, with which we were quite satisfied. Although the Alesis brains work very well (for drummers and studios) and are A LOT CHEAPER, it appears that the Roland TD-8 and TD-10 are a benchmark for live drumming (although I still love the DM-5 for performance, price and value). We are therefore trying to super-tweak the Zombies for best performance with the Rolands and are at the nuance stage. With the Roland Brains, we can get very acceptable head triggering response and we can get similar performance from rim click and cross stick. If we strike the rim hard enough we can get the "Rim Shot" sound BUT we aren't getting the rim shot consistantly when we play the actual (organic) rim shot (head and rim) together. It will trigger the (organic) rim shot between 10% and 25% of the time, but will trigger the rim shot with the rim alone, much more reliably. Any help? Shortly the owner of the Roland TD-8, who was kind enough to bring his brain to our shop for testing will be checking in. He will be able to report on his TD-8 settings that produced what we have so far.
Our target is to produce an E-Drum with a mesh head (the mesh head is done) that responds very well but costs less than half of the V-Customs. We are 95% there and for the Alesis application they are done. If we can get the rimshot dialed in, we will have 98% the performance at 50% the price. (I'm saying 98% performance because I expect that we will continue to improve on our product with out aspiring to "clone" another drum.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Jim in Baltimore
Our target is to produce an E-Drum with a mesh head (the mesh head is done) that responds very well but costs less than half of the V-Customs. We are 95% there and for the Alesis application they are done. If we can get the rimshot dialed in, we will have 98% the performance at 50% the price. (I'm saying 98% performance because I expect that we will continue to improve on our product with out aspiring to "clone" another drum.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Jim in Baltimore
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