recording electronic drums

[mrmojo2]

so i'm looking for the most economical and yet best way to record drums into my Cubase projects. i was thinking electronic drums instead of acoustic because of the noise level around the house and the sound choices. you could dial up african drum sounds or chimes..etc...

anyway i found this site www.electronicdrums.com that shows you how yo make your own kit but it looks like you have to connect it to a drum module. If i buy a real electronic kit as opposed to making my own...can i just use that to trigger my drum machine plug ins or somekind of sampler or something like that? right now i use the LM-7 that came with cubase and play it with 2 fingers on my old yamaha keyboard...with electronic drums i may actually get better at playing a drum kit.

if anyone has had success with this sort of set up or has any ideas on how i could do this please let me know

 

[daav]

any electronic kit will need a brainof some sort, and it will route the signals as midi (to trigger your PC based samples) or the built in samples. I don;t see much of a difference between making the pads and buiying a brain and buying a premade set with its own brain.

I did the do-it-yourself kit and used to have an ALesis DM5 and it did all that and had several option to route the output. I wasn;t really recording with it, more using it for practice. It was very cool for doing things an acoustic set couldn't do, like running it through a distorted amp for some intense beats, but i prefer the acoustic set for tone and playing feel.

Daav