After having played acoustic drums for many years, I recently came to the point of of deciding to purchase a new kit and was pretty much set on purchasing a Tama Starclassic. After spending many more weeks researching and learning in attempts to be sure I was 100% confident in my choice, the advancements of todays edrums hit my radar and peaked my interest. Of course there are both positives and negatives when comparing acoustic drums to edrums, and one has to weigh the differences and choose what’s best for their individual wants and needs. For me, the advantages of todays edrums was a better fit. I narrowed my list down to the Roland 507 with an additional floor tom and the Efnote 7X. I spent the better part of the next two weeks trying to decide which kit/company I would bring home, and the 7X will be delivered tomorrow. I also spent countless hours going back and forth between the 7X and the upcoming 703 Pro. But for my purposes, the 7X was my preferred choice. Because the drums and cymbal technology/hardware will be the same between the two kits, I can always upgrade the 7X module to the Pro module and stage box down the road if I feel the need. Thank you for taking the time to put together this very informative and well done video. I’ve watched countless Efnote videos and yours is one of the best in terms of offering up a fantastic breakdown and review of the kit. Kudos to you, sir!
@fartpooboxohyeah8611 Roland claims the hi hat issue has been resolved with their new 14" "Digital" Hi Hat. I haven't played it so cannot comment. I also wonder how the hats are on Efnote.
I have owned many medium end roland drumkits, td9, td11k, td17, have never liked the sound of them, I have even used VSTs with them but that is impractical if you want to go live, or in some other situations, plus a small latency on my computer, after some research as well, I ended up purchasing an efnote7 drum module and hihat online which should be arriving this week, it seems it fits my needs for portability and decent drum sounds (specially the hihat sounds which for roland modules they sound very artificial)
I wish it would come in that nice white sparkle like the normal Efnote 7. What I want to add: Efnote decides to connect the pads with a cable tree. That seems at first reasonable but from expierence with my TD 9 I can say that this will produce problems in the long run. If one branch to a pad gets unstable you have to replace the whole tree. Even with the TD 9 it was a problem to find replacement after some years and we talking about roland a big company. Also in another review I saw that the contact of the two hi-hat cables is really fragile too if you considering putting it down and up mulitply times for going live. All that is probaly no problem when you just play at home ect but in touring for live gigs it can produce some issues.
Do they make an electronic drum set where you can open and close the snare drum on the fly with a switch on the side of the snare like a real snare drum or do they make them all where you have to go into the membrane and fiddle through a whole bunch of menus just to get an open snare? It's so annoying especially given the price point of these things you think that they would actually do something as simple as adding a very basic feature like that. There are many songs that I play that require you to switch from an open and closed snare on the fly.
The DWe kit has that, BUT you can also just buy one and stick on ur snare! There are a couple on the market that are literally what u described. It’s a throw off that plugs into the module and sends a MIDI message to change the snare sample to the snare-off sample. Works with whatever compatible module. You could do the same thing with any standard MIDI device such as a button or foot press controller. It just has to be set up.
