Best drum interfaces

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The_Subject
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Best drum interfaces

Post by The_Subject » Sun Nov 24, 2019 11:21 am

Looking at a new electronic drum brain/interface to go into ableton. Any recommendations?

jonljacobi
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Re: Best drum interfaces

Post by jonljacobi » Sun Nov 24, 2019 6:44 pm

On youtube Quest for Groove reviews them. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-YRV2 ... eFwvymZ9MQ

I bought an old white Korg padKontrol on his advice and was not disappointed. Great pads.

The_Subject
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Re: Best drum interfaces

Post by The_Subject » Mon Nov 25, 2019 1:32 pm

Hi both, thanks but I didn't explain myself right I'm talking v-drums. An actual kit.

I used to play acoustic drums and am buying an electronic kit but my criteria is I have to plug the brain into my computer to use in a daw, e.g. ableton.

I'm looking at all kinds of brains but half of them seem to be standalone units without any computer viable sockets, just pad in and sound out plus a memory card slot.

Even quite fancy ones (e.g. Roland TD-10 https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 3811743322) if you look at the pictures there is absolutely no computer plug.

I was hoping someone on here may have had experience with using one and could recommend for a smooth, latency free (or as close to it I can't tell the difference!) set up...

Thanks

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Re: Best drum interfaces

Post by jonljacobi » Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:38 am

Computer plug? USB cable? I have the TD-1K set and it absolutely has USB MIDI out.
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Re: Best drum interfaces

Post by jlgrimes » Tue Nov 26, 2019 3:21 am

The_Subject wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 11:21 am
Looking at a new electronic drum brain/interface to go into ableton. Any recommendations?
For drum programming Ableton's piano is pretty good esp when utilizing Session view to store clips for different patterns, and Drum Racks. What are you trying to do.

Ableton Push also is great.

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Re: Best drum interfaces

Post by siliconarc » Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:29 am

The Alesis Mesh kits don’t look too bad if you use it as a controller (internal sounds are unsurprisingly pants) and they feature usb midi and regular midi ins and outputs.

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Re: Best drum interfaces

Post by jonljacobi » Tue Nov 26, 2019 6:47 pm

Not sure if the TD-1K is locked into Roland pads as it's the only one I've ever used. At least since the days of Simmons. I'm not a drummer, but pretty much anything even relatively modern should connect to a computer either via USB or standard MIDI to your audio interface.

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