Amen brutha. For real.
LOL I will disagree with everything both of you said from a home recording perspective. It's ok we have different views. Yes the best way to go is real drums in a real studio with a real engineer and a real producer and thousands of dollars worth of mics and outboard gear. HELLO LOL can you give me $5000-$10,000 to do this for me ? LOL . Hope you are getting my point. The OPer has a $1300 budget.
You would be hard pressed to find another drummer to match the skills and creativity of the drummer in the clip I posted earlier. There is no degradation of talent or creativity in the art in my sample clip I don't see how your argument holds water. Did you listen to the clip? Careful placement of the overheads, and room mics capture the real drums and its blended in with the triggered close mics. There is no other verbs or other effects added to the clip and its not even really mixed perfect yet OR mastered yet.
Whats the difference between triggered samples and you using a fancy mic, putting your effects chain on every channel to sweeten it up ? Both approaches work and both approaches alter the original sound of the drum to make it sound better. So I don't quite get that you are stuck on some sort of "integrity" issue when you are not fully using just the raw recorded drum sounds.
For $300, I feel this is a VERY useful tool for home recording enthusiasts.
Again, I'm not saying its the greatest drum recording ever, but you cant deny it sound pretty damn good for the tools used. Right ? LOL And I know TONS of bands that would KILL to have drums recorded and sound this good. AND AGAIN, I am only trying the serve the original poster of this thread to help him make a decision. maybe it works for him. Another point of view that fits into his budget and is easy.
here is the clip again in case you missed.
https://soundcloud.com/signs-of-reign/ibt-drum-check-1
Regarding a live use. YES you could use this just fine and yes excess noise could be a problem. But only if you are still a dinosaur using loud floor monitors and not using IEMs