Sample trigger pad for drummer.

sgosden

Band's drummer wants to add some weird noises into some of our new songs, (big low end booms etc).

Any recommendations or insight, I've never looked into them.

It'll need to be pretty robust as he's an ape. And be able to hold a few pre-sets. And be fed direct to PA.

cheers

Danny1969

I use a Roland SPD, you can record sounds directly into it via a CF card which is more useful than triggering internal gimmicky sounds. I record keys parts into mine and trigger them with my foot which makes a 3 piece band sound a lot bigger and there's no drop out under solo's. 

All the Roland SPD \ SPDX range are solidly built but I would recommend the older SPD rather than the newer SPDX simply because the newer one uses a micro SD card burried in it's guts to store the sounds where the older SPD takes a standard CF card which you can then backup

octatonic

Roland SPD's are the industry standard.
Alesis do something called a Samplepad for half the price that also takes SD cards.
There is a new Samplepad 4 coming that has (obviously) just 4 pads and will cost £150.

jonnygreentrees

We've got an SPD which is giving up the ghost a bit now and half the pads trigger the neighbouring pad

Danny1969

jonnygreentrees said:

We've got an SPD which is giving up the ghost a bit now and half the pads trigger the neighbouring pad

I've fixed a couple of these and the reason this happens is the cables from the pads chaff against the chassis to ground and cause false triggers ... not a difficult  or expensive fix but you would have thought Roland could have give that area of it a little more fault

I tried the Alesis, it is cheaper but there's a file length limit which is a pain for some songs 

jonnygreentrees

Danny1969 said:

jonnygreentrees said:

We've got an SPD which is giving up the ghost a bit now and half the pads trigger the neighbouring pad

I've fixed a couple of these and the reason this happens is the cables from the pads chaff against the chassis to ground and cause false triggers ... not a difficult  or expensive fix but you would have thought Roland could have give that area of it a little more fault

I tried the Alesis, it is cheaper but there's a file length limit which is a pain for some songs 

ah cool, I've already taken the pads apart and removed wood splinters from drum sticks which helped for a bit. I'll have another look at the leads