V-drums vs yamaha

[Bernhard Crosby]

For me, as a drummer, I prefer the feel of V-Drums.

[Malius]

I've got me a Roland TD-9KVX (?) and it's great, the pads are really responsive. The one thing I would say is that perhaps I would have liked more drum samples on the module, it feels quite limiting sometimes.

Can you download more and add them via it's USB port?

I thought now I've got the kit I can always sell the module at a later date and upgrade that without having to buy a new kit.

[ShaggyRS6]

The Toolbox Kits sound awesome. [url=http://www.vexpressionsltd.com/td09.html]V Expressions LTD[/url]


Here's mine.

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[DjRo]

I really think that the V drums give the best sounds and has an excellent control panel. I have always thought that the sounds you get from the v drums are really good throughout different velocities. The feel of them are really good, especially for non drummers, with the v you can really get into the groove!

DjRo

[Khazul]

+1 for V-Drums - had a TD6 kit a while back - didnt like the rubber pads really and detached feeling HH pedal, so sold it and bought a TD12 kit. Its the closest to an acoustic kit I have yet played regularly - great sounds too.

Also some great patch libraries for it on V-Experssions site.

The TD20 and TD12 drum synths are basically the same under the hood - TD20 has a few extra options, and of course a load of more obvious differences beyond the sound generation part.

[johnny macmanky]

Hi, I'm a n00b to electronic drums - I'm about to purchase an electric kit (from dv of course), mainly for recording to a Computer sequencer. I'm probably going to go for the TD3, but I rather like the look of the Alessis surge cymbals and was wondering if the pads from different brands were compatible?

E.g. If I was to decide to go for a Yamaha DT Xpress instead, would I be able to use a Roland mesh snare and Alessi surge cymbals with the Yamaha brain, etc.?

The other thing I'm wondering about, some of the cheaper brains only have a MIDI out. Are the sounds from, say, the DT Xpress available as a VST, or would I be limited to using the DT Xpress solely to input data and then I'd have to use completely different sounds? (I know it has an onboard sequencer, but I need the editing features of a 'proper' sequencer).

Thanks,

Johnny

[VegasLen]

Yamaha did used to do a mesh headed kit called DTXtreme I but dumped the idea when they couldn't compete with the roland version for price or sounds. And so they went to making the same quality but with rubber pads to keep the price down so that they could compete

For the record i have a TD20 and its awesome!!!!

[sijarvis]

Surely it's not possible to patent the idea of a stretched membrane connected to a trigger? That seems utterly ridiculous. Not to say it's not impossible just incredible.

[sijarvis]

It seems to me that everyone here is more into drum kits, especially electronic ones.

Nothing at all about other percussion whatsoever.

I realise a drummer can do a lot on his own and because it comes from one person then it makes for better sync'd rhythmns, but there's so much you can do with hand percussion that seems to be left out on here.

Someone who can play a tambourine properly for instance should really be more valued. You wouldn't want to put it in the hands of someone who can't play it as it cuts through everything and can put the most solid of drummers out of time just like that.

Same goes for the triangle. A much joked about instrument but when put in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing, can really lift an entire performance.

Perhaps though, percussion should really be on a thread all of its own.

[Khazul]

Originally Posted by sijarvis

It seems to me that everyone here is more into drum kits, especially electronic ones.

Nothing at all about other percussion whatsoever.

Not quite - I have been meaning to get around to attaching piezo trigggers to some ethnic percussion as well and using my TD12 as the trigger to midi converter for them

[DrumKing]

For me it's got to be yamaha's over the Rolands any day.

The Yamaha DT electric kit sounds are sampled from their acoustic kits so the sounds you get are great straight out of the box - with no tweaking.

And unlike the Roland's they sound like real kits beacuse the sounds are from real kits NOT generated on a computer (that's how Roland get their sounds).

The rubber pads are fine - i've always liked mesh heads but after playing the yamaha's I know that their rubber pads are great.