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

I'm not sure about you, but as I have bought lots of drum software from different manufacturers in the past, I regularly get emails with offers and special deals. These could be anything from sample packs to new sound packages, to new MIDI packs and I'm often tempted. But should we buy software, just because

Does your electronic kit play like a lovely soft duvet, with fresh Egyptian cotton sheets... I'm wandering over old ground here, but this months subject is due to the many questions I've read online or that have been sent to me directly to me in the last few weeks, that frankly, shouldn't need

Who was the rapper? Thats for me to know I'm afraid. And before you start doing Google Reverse Image Search, this isn't a photo of them..! Electronics are just a tool. Electronics allows you to do things which would otherwise be difficult, or impossible, and that includes what some people would view as

Last time we looked at trouble shooting, but this time its more customisation. Hopefully, if you have read the previous twenty odd articles, you should know that all pads, modules and accessories are not 100% cross compatible. What I mean by this is, you can't just take a drum module from manufacturer 'A', plug in

So, you have your lovely shiny electronic kit all set up. You have tweaked it for weeks and it sounds great and is just right... and then, inevitably, something starts to behave oddly. And it is always at the worst possible time... or at least it seems that way. We've all been there, one pad,

Ok, ok, so we've looked at mesh before, but judging by some Facebook threads on the usual suspect's pages, maybe we out to just cover a couple of things again. Mesh does not feel like a real, mylar drum head. Due to its very nature (the fact that is it woven and not a single

Perhaps there's another reason for those weirdly set up kits... Electronic kits have one unique ability – in the words of the great Bill Bruford, talking on Rockshool back in the early 1980's about his electronic kit “Any pad can be any thing, at any time”. And that go me thinking... I once