e-drummers help me out

[lotuscent]

Ok - I have to go with an e kit until I get my real rooms built - could be a couple of years...

anyway, i am damn sick of using loops and other tricks... i want a human feel.

So, I have spent a lot of $$ on my other gear, not a lot left for the kit (and my wife looking iver the shoulder... bless her for the concern...)

I am a decent, solid drummer myself, but will sometimes get my ringer buddy to sit in for me. The Hart Prodigy kit looks real cheap, and is cheap - are they as functional as the studio kits? hardware and looks notwithstanding. I'm talking about feel, dynamics, sensetivity, etc... do they fall apart?

anybody with experience here?

I am tempted to go for a studio kit, but damn, those prodigys are easy on the wallet!

anybody with a good, cost effective solution? I'm thinking a TD-8 brain...

 

[LOPEZRECORDS]

Other way around.....

Im the other way around i have the old yamaha dtx ver.2 good drum set but from what i have heard with these samples and drummachine's i rather program and just push a button to play for me . I admitt i don't know what im getting into maybe ill regret it but it sound's alot easyer that way. Well go to a local music store and look for the new yamaha set the new module is
smaller than mine but the price is too i think 999.00 i think you get 4toms the kick pad hihatswitch snare pad and hihat pad with
two chokable symbols all dual zone and durable i had mine for trhee year's and they have better sound that the alesis dmpro....

 

[lotuscent]

yeah, I wish I could go try these things, otherwise i wouldn't have bothered asking...

I live in rural Alaska, the nearest shop with anything at all to demo (still not much) is a five hour drive away...

any more help out there?

 

[captainkey]

I have Roland V-Club kit, and with the td-6 brain it serves my purposes pretty well...silent practice and midi drum performances into a computer sequencer to trigger samples...add a mesh snare pad and a mesh kick pad, another cymbal pad and for around $500 extra you have a v-drum set that rivals a big time $2000 + kit....

I'm not sure what you're trying to do.....

the Hart Prodigy with a roland td-8 brain might be okay....the Hart stuff is great bang for the buck....the performance is very close, if not identical to the higher priced Roland stuff....

keep in mind the e-drum technology isnt there yet.....I would just use the brain to trigger snare, toms, kick sounds, and record live cymbals....so for that you can get away with Hart Prodigy pads and a roland td-8, if that's what you want.....

for that matter though, I would save myself about $300-400 and just get an Alesis DM pro...very good drum sounds for cheap...