So I finally figured out my "drums" dilemma

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So I finally figured out my "drums" dilemma

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Bought this yesterday:

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And it's fucking awesome. I am using it to trigger SSD4 tones and it sounds great!!

Pretty much plug and play, just needed to do some minimal mapping for a layout I was comfortable with but the default layout wasn't bad either.

My finger drumming skills are not that great at the moment, but definitely passable and it will get better with practice. But at least this feels like actually playing an instrument instead of clicking on a fucking piano roll/grid.

This is a video demo from youtube:

[video]http://youtu.be/lF-ZDz2SjNc[/video]


Best $60 I've spent in a while. I highly recommend this.
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Oh hell yeah!!

I'm on my way to GC right now. If they have one in stock.......
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Nice! I use a Korg PadKontrol. Even though I suck and have to quantize pretty heavily, it's awesome to be able to lay down drum parts quickly and easily. And having differing velocities naturally (instead of having to randomize them or do them by hand) really goes a long way in making the drums sound realistic.
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Do you have to quantize no matter what? I had one of those little Yamaha electric drum pad/kit things that I'd use to trigger samples via midi and it seemed no matter how perfectly I played some of the notes just wouldn't land right
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Don't have to quantize anything with this one, unless it's to fix my own mistakes. But what I doing now is I'm recording the kick and snare in the first pass, then doing a second pass for cymbals then a final one for fills. By doing this, there are not a whole lot of mistakes to fix. Once I get better with the finger drumming I will try to do things in one pass.

If the notes are not landing right that's probably a latency issue. Try to reduce your ASIO buffer size.
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Shit; didn't need to see this. Getting a little tired of having to rely on everybody else for drums; thinking about grabbing this and SSD4. How hard was it to map? Never done anything like this before, ever. I'm a noob.
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I've been using my MIDI keyboard to lay down basic tracks for a while, then I'll edit in the piano roll and add in fills and make sure I'm not TOO far off beat. It helps to use anything outside the gridded mouse entry. Unless you're going for super robo-destructo type stuff.
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GuitarBilly wrote:If the notes are not landing right that's probably a latency issue. Try to reduce your ASIO buffer size.



I figured that was the case, the laptop I use for recording is ancient :lol:
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Steinmetzify wrote:Shit; didn't need to see this. Getting a little tired of having to rely on everybody else for drums; thinking about grabbing this and SSD4. How hard was it to map? Never done anything like this before, ever. I'm a noob.

It's REALLY easy. It comes with this little Korg editor software that is completely self-explanatory. It took me literally 5 minutes to get up and running.
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That's awesome!!

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I snagged one along the the Tele and pretty suede strap.
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