Re: WHY THE HELL ARE V-DRUMS SO DAMN EXPENSIVE!?

[Dave Lanciani]

ORIGINAL: Xiek

Have you considered a midi controller?

http://www.alternatemode.com/trapkat.shtml

LOVE mine.

These things are surprisingly expensive, too!!  They’re still around $1,100 US!  They are very cool.  I saw Future Man from the Flecktones using one with DFH Superior – If you closed your eye’s, you’d swear it was a real kit.

But still expensive.

I actually bought TWO of those cheapie ION kits ($300 each) at a Target retail store, and built them together as a single kit (plus spare pads and pedals left over from the 2nd kit that wouldn’t fit).  Total cost – $600.

Is it as good as a Roland kit. NOOOOOOO  WAAAAYYYY!  But does it do what I need it to do?  Yup.  They’re basically the same as one of those older ALESIS edrum kits that are obsolete with thinner support bars.  And the brains is basically an ION-modified SR-16 with trigger inputs instead of a MIDI input.

MIDI’d into my computer with EZ Drummer.  Listen to some of my stuff.  It works.  Cheap.

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