Getting Roland TD-20 Electronic Drum Kit this week! questions...

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For triggering the sounds on the computer using MIDI I have the cables and know how to set it up, as I've used my keyboard before. What are your preferred software choices for triggering samples and things

I have tried Project 5 with it's drum VST thing which is great and you can add .wav files together and trigger them at different velocities.

And I have seen the built in cubase drum module which I thought was ok.

What do you guys use?
 
Hi Kim,


Personally?

I wouldn't waste my money on it if you already have a computer involved in the equation. I'd invest in Drumkit From Hell, and several different software packages before. What you need to trigger is just a TMI, so take a look at one of the less expensive Roland units. roland also makes a 6 channel TMI, that has the same TMI that is in all of their Sound Modules - it just has no built in sounds. It is designed for doing exactly what you are doing with it; the only drawback is it is only 6 trigger inputs. But you could buy a pair of them (They are less than $300 each) and have 12 trigger inputs to MIDI, and then spend the rest of the money on various drumsample programs.



http://www.toontrack.com/index_samples.shtml
http://www.toontrack.com/features_dfh.shtml



Tim
 
Tim has a good point - the small Roland trigger pads are not very costly and candidly, if you are not a drummer (or at least if you don't have some drum chops) the pads are easier to play than a TD20 kit. You can play them with your hands or with sticks. They have female jacks if you want to use a kick pedal with a kick trigger.

I use a TD10 kit - but as a drummer, I find that to feel more natural than playing on the smaller pads. However, I work with a guitarist who has a full electronic set in his studio (for drummers) but he always uses the smaller pads (he uses Hart rather than Roland - but the end result is very much the same.

While it is possible to get relatively realistic drum sounds out of a TD20, it takes a few amount of tweaking. Samples can be more user friendly - although there is still a learning curve.
 
It's more about the actual triggering I was interested. What VST or drum module you use with the electronic kit

I have already ordered the TD-20, I believe it is a good investment. It has the larger more sensitive pads so I don't have to adjust from acoustic drums too much. It also has many more sounds and most customisation.

But for on the pc when i'm triggering samples a good plugin that can trigger samples well with lots of customisation and loading in my own samples
 
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