What do I buy? TD-20, TD-12 or TD-9 ?????

[Joseph Teresi]

Hey All, I’m trying to figure out what I should buy for an electronic kit.  I have enough to buy a TD-20.  I just want to get the most out of it as I use it with EZ Drummer and Superiror 2. 
 
1st off, My local music store tells me that Roland is coming out with a NEW type of TD-20 so he says to wait and see what comes out. 
 
I just need to justify the extra few thousand dollars to get a TD-20…  should I get a TD-12?  Are they the same (just extra pads?)  I’m not really going to use the brain of it.  Any help would be great!
 
I will ONLY use this Electric Kit with my Toontrack products.
 
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[magicdog]

If you only want to use the kit with VST drums (not the module sounds), why would you buy any Roland or Yamaha module…?

You are paying for a huge amount of technology that you will never use so it seems like a big waste of money to me.

I only use VST drums and have no use for the module sounds so I custom built a system with Roland pads and cymbals, Alesis and Roland trigger-only units (no module sounds) and it works great.

I reckon I have saved thousands by opting to avoid buying a module.

[Joseph Teresi]

What do you mean? Please elaborate 🙂 Do you have any pictures of what you built?

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[magicdog]

I use a Roland TMC-6 (6 triggers) and an Alesis DM5 (12 more triggers…!) these are triggered from a variety of (mostly) Roland pads and cymbals which play my VSTs via MIDI on the PC.

The whole setup cost me no more than £400 (not including the PC of course…!).

[Damian Blunt]

I have been through several different kit configurations and now use a TD-12 module, a TMC-6 and hybrid set of pads that is close to a TD-20….The TMC-6 and TD-12 actually give me more options than a TD-20 alone….ie more than one 3 zone cymbal…

I get what magicdog is saying about doing things cheaply….but if you want things like positional sensing on the snare, tom rims or the ability to use a VH-12 hihat then the TD-20 or ,my preferred choice, the TD-12 is the way to go..

You could also check out yamaha etc…..but for me it’s Roland all the way

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[mfolsom333]

You could make your own edrums and just buy the brain.  I made mine for less than $80.  The feel better than the TD-20 kit also.  I think the TD-20 brains are going for $1200 on ebay.  So, this could save you money and you could have a better kit.  I am currently working on some cymbals that will be posted later.  Just encase you are interested.   http://www.folsom-tech.com

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