We moved to a new flat last year, which meant I lost my man cave bomb shelter
I've really missed playing drums, I still have the kit (a yamaha DT xpress 4) but it's too big to leave setup in the new place.
One way around this is getting the SPD SX - sure it's not a real drum kit, but it would get me back to writing my own drum loops. I've been really lazy of late and using session drummer for every thing. A side effect would be that I could add some real drums and loops to my duo gig, without massively increasing footprint.
So, anyone using one and any other options out there?
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Will also look at the octapad as it's a new one on me. Literally just started thinking of this today.
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if not then check out the V Drums forum or FB group to see if anyone is selling.
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I've sold my V Drums kit- it is being collected tomorrow.
It is a combination of things- firstly the hi-hats on electronic kits are completely unlike real hats.
You lose all the subtlety you get with a regular set of hats.
The ergonomics are much tighter- a real kit is much more spread out- so I was practicing a lot on the V drums only to then have to unlearn that when going to a real kit.
Over the last few months I've been slowly moving over to mesh heads on a real kit with Zildjian low volume cymbals for my practice rig.
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I only bought a V Drums in order to be able to do silent practice- the focus has always been to get out gigging.
I liken it to the difference between acoustic or electric guitar.
I can almost always tell an electric only player when they pick up an acoustic guitar.
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What sorts of things would you want to do with it?
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But I know that some midi implementation is really restrictive and others is quite flexible. Boss tend to be quite good at midi (at least the ES5 and DD500 are).
All kind of new to me this, but I'm trying to buy once...
You can assign midi notes to pads fairly easily.
https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/roland-spd-sx-assigning-midi-note-numbers-pads/
I believe you can set it to spit out a CC to a pad as well, although check the manual.
The trick is going to be splitting these up to send to different devices.
I reckon you will have to use computer as a master- you can easily do this in a Logic environment, although you need to know how to do it which is usually where people fall down.
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Lots to ponder and think about, but I reckon I need to take baby steps with this. Get the SPD, get it talking to a synth or my mac and taking it from there...