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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

Apples and oranges.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

I've never messed with those.

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.

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!

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.