We've been asking

Bertotti · Post by **Bertotti** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:32 pm

For all sorts of things to make the next gen WD. But apparently. Itching new this year. I understand there have been some demands with the release of the game changer but this product does look interesting maybe it will be all it's cracked up to be without costing as much as a tempest!
nord drum

Kaden · Post by **Kaden** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:25 pm

Apples and oranges.

Bertotti · Post by **Bertotti** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:25 pm

Yep, so?

Edit to, I'm not trying to be rude. I realize they are different beasts just saying I'd like more and this may be an option.

Kaden · Post by **Kaden** » Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:49 am

In that case, Geist and Tremor are already game changers.

Bertotti · Post by **Bertotti** » Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:43 am

Never heard Of them but I will google away, thanks! Oh and shortly I will have my second wavedrum! A couple months to go!

Bertotti · Post by **Bertotti** » Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:52 am

Hey that Geist could be a great interface to get my wavedrum sounds midified! Thanks for the heads up. I don't know poo about software music!

Kaden · Post by **Kaden** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:53 am

I did brute force midi on my wavedrum with a pair of piezos. One on the head, one on the rim. Jacked them into a pair of trigger inputs on my TD-8, then stuffed the TD-8 midi out into Battery3 on my laptop.

It took a while to lay out the cells and velocity layers in Battery, and tweezing the sensitivity and crosstalk rejection on the V-Drum brain is *never* easy, but when it was all up and running the WD was making it's own sounds, plus triggering 2 voices on the TD-8, *plus* triggering multiple multi-sample layered cells in Battery.

Latency was maybe 5-6 ms, which is a tad flammy, but by gawd, it was a slab of sound. Making it usable in an ensemble context would have taken more time than the benefits warranted.

Bertotti · Post by **Bertotti** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:17 am

Hey that sounds like a lot of work but a load of fun!

Kaden · Post by **Kaden** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:20 pm

Honestly, it's only fun if it ends up being musically useful. Which it wasn't.

Bertotti · Post by **Bertotti** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:59 pm

Whoa that is a bummer! To bad it didn't work out well. I always learn more from my failed experiments then my successful ones. I don't supose that helps any though.

X-Trade · Post by **X-Trade** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:42 pm

Looks like it's going to compete more with the Electribes than the WD. Not sure yet?

Bertotti · Post by **Bertotti** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:07 pm

I've never messed with those.

Kaden · Post by **Kaden** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:56 pm

The architecture of groove boxes makes them predisposed towards facilitating 'dance music'. If you're down with that, they're lotsa fun. If you're not, there are better ways to spend your money.

Bertotti · Post by **Bertotti** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 2:54 pm

I wish I knew more about all the possibilities and other options. I played with the Kansas pro it was fun but in the end for me it was more a toy dance and rave/rage stuff not what I am after in the end. I machine seems cool but it lacks feeling. I think I just need a real kit and learn how to coordinate or uncoordinate all my appendages to get what I am after. You know that 57 renown kit is kind of cool. Ah so much gear out there and so little time and money!

Kaden · Post by **Kaden** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:20 pm

Yeah, the '57 kit looks great in photographs, but not so much in real life; I was kinda disappointed, truth be told.

Then there's the whole 'paying for Renown shells and then mucking up the resonance by gluing big chunks of aluminum onto them' issue.