[paspallum]

Halcyo
Dude you are so right!
And I think the point that you were also trying to make here is that if Roland started selling their kits for $1000 then…. 100X more people would buy them!

I built my own edrum kit using a real drumkit that that I fitted with pearl mesh (noiseless) heads and 50 cent piezio transducers for triggers (they work as well as the Fishman purple dots) the triggers went into an Alesis DM5 module.

I tried to build a hihat controller but that wasn’t easy and didn’t work well at all. (so I had to mic a real set of hi-hats – easy to mic and not ‘noisey for teh neighbourhood)

The DM5’s internals sounds ssuck BIG TIME
So I used midi out to Battrey, BFD or EZDrummer

I could never get the ‘curve’ of the DM5 to play the samples in my samplers in a natrual way… I couldn’t get the full range from 0 to 127 layers to play and respond from my snare… and I tried weekly for over three years… it was always a limited range… I’m guessing here but it was like only 25-30% range at one time…(do you want your kit soft all the time? Loud all the time? Or in the middle all the time?

The kit could play a ‘groove’ sure…. and better for a drummer to play than a piano style keyboard… but I don’t play drums and no drummers that I had use it were really ‘taken’ with it.

NOW a drummer friend of mine has a Roland TD20 kit and he’s left it at my studio…

It IS WAY better than my D-m5 setup… but yeah you are SOOOOOO right… the internal sounds in the TD-20 are not as good as ANY 16 bit samples sets that you use on a computer… not even close.

I reckon some company will get together with BFD or Toontrack and create an affordable human interface (E-Kit) in a package that includes their software and will work seamlessly… but I guess this would be 2-5 years in the future still.

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