Mwahahaha it's arrived!

Looks like the one the drummer from my band just bought, it sounds sweet and there are many, many tweakable options (including yes a volume knob on a drum kit!)

He uses it for practises, along with a decent amp and it certainly cuts the mustard! Yes you can tell it's not areal acoustic kit but for everything but "live" it's certainly cool :)
 
Awesome! I'd love a TD kit for triggering some drum VSTs.

The drummer in our band was almost gonna get a TD20 but the cost is just astronomical.

Have you tried it?

Is it anything like a proper drumkit?

I'm not a drummer but know that on the higher end Roland V kits the snare and toms are close to being like real drums as they use a fabric for the skins, so there's some bounce when you actually hit them, the cymbals are obviously the less like real parts of a kit but on certain kits you can still choke them etc and nearly all will let you hit the bells etc.
 
Yup I've had a play on several of these kits including the Yamaha DTX range.

It has full mesh snare and tom toms which have rim sensors too, it also has cymbal chokes etc. The benefit of the real skins/mesh over plastic/rubber is that it has less impact on your joints and is quieter.
I have a Pearl Eliminator single bassdrum pedal for the base drum sensor but it will take a double pedal when I'm ready (thinking for metal such as Nightwish's belting operatic tracks).

The TD12 & 20 have the next "brain" up which allows you to tune the virtual parameters at a minute level and the drums/cymbals have three triigger points but these are an additional £800 just for the TD12.. forgetting the TD20!
The TD12 & TD20 use proper high hat stands with hat that has two seperate pieces, larger drums etc that mean a far larger floor foot print.

There are differences but these are in nuances in how to get sounds out of the kit. So I would treat them as different instruments but fundamentally both stem from the same fundamentals in music. If you play a specific timing and rhythm phrases these are the same between the acoustic and v-drum.

One big benifit from this is that I can record every note via MIDI and then use that as a learning tool too to correct my playing. This is easier than tape and metro-gnome (:)) in my opinon and I can upload custom kits too so I can make it a complete percussion bay without a snare or tom tom in sight for latin drumming. It can also be used to trigger realtime VST kits or record tracks for MIDI in Reason or other packages.
 
I've only ever seen one local covers band with an electronic drumkit and it was amazing to hear the proper drum sounds for the song they were playing.
What made it better was that the guitarists put their guitars through Line 6 gear straight into the PA so every sound to every song was virtually smack on to the original.
I went to see them about 4 months later and all the gear had been replaced with Marshalls and a proper kit.
 
It's true - some people feel that they must go acoustic. Often because bands won't take an 'e-drummer'.

Well I have it assembled and running :D :D

I've had a listen to all the 99 kits - there's some very good ones (including steel, brass and copper kits, several kits of latin percussion), some electro stuff (kits with processing effects, 80's pads etc) and some daft fun stuff (cartoon).

a lot of the kits have 'songs' that can be triggered to progress by a note each step with each hit of a particular cymbal for example. A nice to form part of a learning aid to sync music and kit.

I'm about to pick up the manual and work out the other features, plug in my iTunes and have some fun :D
I have two weeks holiday coming up and I will concentrate on getting some lessons and loads of practice.
 
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