This answers the question of does dual zone snare triggering actually work on a DM6. Fiancee blindly purchased a Burst kit for Christmas for me. Bless her soul, she did not realize a Turbo Mesh was just a few dollars more, but man I'm in love with it. I can play at home now. Anyway it's been a continuing series of successful and unsuccessful upgrades since I got it. Added a DM kick drum tower to replace the awful switch pedal and that has been amazing comparatively. A seller on Ebay advertised the same 9" snare that is included with the Burst as a dual zone which it was NOT. Spent $80.00 on a spare single zone pad basically. Let the seller know and they still disagree with me. They insist it is dual zone and my snake or module must be malfunctioning. Getting an actual dual zone turbo mesh snare tomorrow and that will be the final upgrade to this kit. A module upgrade is not possible due to 1/8" TR mono connectors on the toms . I use it as a USB MIDI interface for Addictive Drums 2 complete and I'm seriously missing my rim shots. Thanks for the demo.
Quite late but a heads up - the difference between Studio Drummer Lite vs Full is only playback quality, rather than number of drums - Full has a feature called round robin which makes things sound less repetitive when doing consecutive hits :)
Brother, you just opened a new rabbit hole for me. Looking into an electronic kit, but with this software you show, you can make any kit sound like gold.
Yes. This POS kit sounds amazing with this software. Anything I don't get right during recording I go back and "fix" in the midi capture. I don't have room for a full size acoustic set... This is def the next best thing.
well I just invested into a Alesis Nitro kit. and then got the complete 8 software to use with it when it gets here. So I cannot wait to get my $299 kit to sound amazing as yours does. Thank you again for making it so that I can save money on a drum kit. And not sacrifice sound quality.
The thing I hate about using a DAW, is the latency. When youve been drumming long enough, you notice it sooo much. So I upload sounds from Kontakt right to the Alesis Forge module, sounds so much better than the pre loaded sounds from Alesis.
Hey, sounds awesome, but i wonder if there is a way to raise the velocity ceiling or is that just the kit? studio drummer typically can sound pretty natural in any respect, but when its hitting the velocity limit, it sounds pretty wiggy
Hi, in my DM6 kit, the hihat foot press sound (open to close with foot press) is missing. Could you please tell if this is same behaviour in your kit as well?
Greg's Garage did you bought the software ?? it's pretty expansive for me right now... and i know how cheesey is DM6 without a program, do you have any suggestion to improve my drum kit ?? thanks.
Yeah, you have to buy it... You can buy just the Studio Drummer part, you don't have to buy the full Kontakt piece. If you have garage band, you can use their kit sounds. They are a BIG improvement over DM6 and they are free if you have a mac.
Rudderify Oh man. I thought about driving to one of those shows. They were in denver and chicago I believe... Hopped right over KC. Danny is THE MAN... He went to high school in south KC!!!
Most importantly for the christmas time review what does it sound like from the other side of the house while the kids are banging away at them with headphones on?
LOL! They aren't as quiet as you'd think. I edited out all the real strike sounds except the first time I tap on the hi-hat cymbal. Def not as loud as acoustic drums, but they aren't quiet, that's for sure. There are some mesh drums that are MUCH quieter, but every electronic cymbal I've ever hit sounds like these do. The neighbors can't hear it, but my wife doesn't like them if that tells you anything.
How did you set up your hi-hats on Studio drummer? coz I'm using the turbo mesh kit of Alesis and when it's connected to a vst plugin, whenever I hit the hi-hats the sound is always open hi-hat even though I'm pressing the pedal. I hope you can help me.
Hi Greg, is this kit has MIDI Output ? I am guitarrist with some experience in playing drums during a period in my garage bands and I recently bought a M-Audio 192/6 Interface with midi In/out, I started to produce some personal stuff, for bass recording even whithout having this instrument I can create some good bass recordings with Ezbass or with my guitar and a Boss Oc2 pedal, but drums is completelly awful, I tried some Midi Keyboard, finger pads, Song creator of Ezdrummer and now I am looking for an eletronic drumset, I was thinking one of these table drums as Yamaha DD-65/75 because of the price and midi outputs, but I found recently one Alesis DM6 second hand condition for 120 euros, I really thinking about buying this one, even for record its real sound if I could not handle how to setup with some VST.
Hey ! Do you know if there is simple samples of the "snare" or a kick to put them on a SD Card (so in fact a .waw file) to play the sounds on my samplepad Pro by Alesis ? Please I need help I'm lost I think there was samples that's why I buy this studio Drummer
Go Greggo mate! Shid man, thems clubs you're usin? Look like Double-B's at least. Nice tappin Dude. I'm a total hack at skins, but still love me ole Roland TD6's (my neighbours don't but LoL) Just out of interest, are you running a double-pedal on the bass drum? If not, nice work on the double-stomps :D Q-Ball :)
LOL! They are big snare line sticks. I used to use DC-1S by promark, but they aren't made anymore. The ones in the vid are vic firth corps masters. I have pretty big hands and I just can't get any feedback out of 5b or 7b type sticks... I need LOGS!!!
If you just pull the arm that it's on to the right it should be fine. To fix the problem of the hi hat being close just ben the arm back to where you like it
The USB that connects the drum module to the Mac is the only cable you need. I don't know the exact name of it, but it's the same one that printers use... Square-ish on one end and a USB on the other.
I want to buy this drum kit but I heard about some issues with the hi-hat when you hit it fast like when playing metal or punk it kinda gets stuck and doesnt sounds and I also heard about a firmware issue that gives you problems recording, is that true?
+Luis Gabriel Perea I haven't had any recording troubles. I will say, you get what you pay for. The kits works fine, but it's not super responsive like the v-drums I've played. It's good enough to get ideas from your head to the computer or to practice, but I wouldn't take it to a live gig or do any serious recording with it. I lay down basic stuff, then edit the midi by hand to fill in anything I missed or the drum kit missed.
I was wondering if you would know where I can find step-by-step instructions on hooking up v-drums (TD-8). I've tried and can't get it working with Session Drummer. I would appreciate any help.
+Joseph Ayoub I don't know where to point you... Can you get them working with garage band? If so, it's a midi mapping issue. If not, then there's something else amiss.
+Greg's Garage My v-drums work perfectly in Logic X with all of the Apple drum sounds. The issue is only with Studio Drummer in NI. For sure it's a mapping issue. I guess I'll need to roll up my sleeves and start tinkering under the hood. I just wish I didn't have to. Thanks again for getting back to me so quickly.
In studio drummer... (this is from memory, I'm not on my mac) there is a midi drop down. I think it gives a,b,c, and then "Omni" You want it set to Omni.
+Greg's Garage Anyone know how to run FL Studio using the Alesis? Ive downloaded the program, but Im not sure where to go from the home screen. Any help would be appreciated!!!
hey guys, does it matter whether there is two-zone or single-zone tom/snare pads when using this kit with software like this or any other VST software? Doesn't it rewrite signals from MIDI out on its own?
No. The pad on the kit is 2 zone for the snare. I think that's the only 2 zone input. If you were going to do additional multi-zone pads, you'd need a different wire harness or brain. The software doesn't care about the pads themselves. The midi brain assigns all the channels and puts the appropriate signal on the right channel. HTH!
Hey man, that sounded really great with the NI Studio Drummer, congrats! I have a question, how did you plug the kit to the interface? I think it would be with a midi cable, but Im not sure... Again, great demo
Thanks for showing Greg,very cool! DM6 sounds pretty boring i agree ,my DM5 sounded amazing back in 03 with effects right in the box you could sound like nine inch nails if you wanted :-)But it was like 1000$ and it was a rack-mount,now you got it all with the plug-ins,it sounded really good. I noticed your "double-kick-technique" ,i can't do that lol Merry X mas
***** When properly warmed up on a good kick pedal, I can do a triple kick with one foot. Back in the day, I had a double bass set... One foot was fast, the other couldn't hit the beat to save my life.
Yeah man. I can do a detailed vid. I'll have some time on Saturday. It's pretty simple, but there are a few little details that can hold you up if you don't know them.
oh thank you so much! last night I've been searching for more that 5 hours for a tutorial on how to use the program to your drum step by step and how to sync. Most of them just showed the interface and tested the sound. I would really really appreciate if you make one sir. I will share the video tutorial to other people who has the same problem. :)
+Wei liang Liu The cymbals are dual zone. You can break the wiring into 2 inputs and use 2 extra cymbals. You just loose the dual zone. You can also do the same to the snare. I think you can add 3 total pieces this way. It's been a bit since I've looked at the wiring for that stuff.
I paid $40 dlls for this drum set: my friend bought it for his daughter but she lost interest and they had it in their garage for a while, one day I saw it and asked my friend if he'd sell it to me, he just told me to give him $40 dlls. I like the feeling of the pads, the module is shitty but I use it as a MIDI trigger and works great for me, I record my songs with it
