Zoom Update It's always nice when companies listen to criticism. You may remember a few months back when we went into our first lockdown that I did a roundup of what was available to us drummers who wanted to either teach online or be taught online. At the time, I said that Zoom was the

A 200gb Micro SD card inside its adapter, in the SD slot of my MacBook If there's one thing I like about having access to thousands and thousands of really, really good drum sounds is the fact that if I feel like track needs the sound of a 1974 Ludwig Black Beauty with

OK, I'm surprised I hadn't covered this, but it appears I haven't, and it is VERY important. If you use ANY electronic or mechanical gear, you experience latency. Latency is the time it takes for something that you are using (a car, a toaster, a clever bit of electronic drum gear) to react to you

Online Teaching Part 2 All ready for another lesson I thought this month I'd follow on from last months look at quickly getting an online teaching situation up and running. Hopefully the world has calmed down a little since then, and we have all got a little more used to our situation. I,

Since I wrote my last article, the world has become a very different place. As the social isolation rules were bought in around the planet, drummers everywhere realised that if they wanted to carry on teaching or having lessons, they had to get their online lesson setup sorted out. While this might, on the surface,

An example of my template in action - triggering ezDrummer 2, but also converting the midi from a Yamaha Multi 12 into a correctly written score in real time. Since I started using edrums I have also taught drums, and I've also had some very, very good teachers myself (luckily). And while I've

Acoustic? Or electronic with real cymbals? If you ask 100 drummers what they like about using either electronic kits or VST drum plug-ins, they will tell you that they love the variety of drum sounds, the ability to play the sounds of rare of vintage drums and all that sort of stuff. If

So we left off last time talking about machine-gunning. This is the effect you get when you play a pad multiple time (like in a fill) on an electronic kit, at about the same velocity, and the sound (lets assume its a snare drum sounds) sounds really jittery, jumpy and un-realistic.. and almost like a

Ok, so we left off last time talking about the fact that modules (or rather most of them), have limited storage for the samples, and computers have much more, but thats not strictly true as we'll see. Before we go on, there's one very important thing to think about. Acoustic drums will NEVER sound the

Circuit boards, whether inside a drum module or a computer, all do the same thing. So whats the difference? More and more electronic drum users seems to be using VSTi instruments now, from club drummers up to massive stadium bands (see later), but why? What's better? How does it work? So this month