http://www.alesis.com/controlpad
I came across this thing on the webz by accident, but it looks promising. . .
It claims to be velocity-sensitive and somewhat resembling a real drum in feeling. It comes with its own small FXPansion BFD package, which you can also use as a standalone or plugin, but you can control practically anything that works with MIDI like Addictive Drums, Drumkit from Hell, softsynths and whatever else you got. All you need is a pair of drumsticks. And you don't even NEED MIDI, it also has USB.
Now, I am a lazy person and it takes me hours to write 2 minutes of drums using my mouse. Not to mention that the result is some uninspired and fake sounding shit. So I really think this would provide a much easier and faster alternative to drum writing. Even if you suck at drumming (like me), you could record everything in MIDI on its own (I mean snares only then kicks then cymbals only) and then quantize everything to death.
I usually think up drum patterns by drumming everything out on my desk anyway, so this would still be much more intuitive than using the fucking mouse (so uninspiringuke: ) or a keyboard (I just can't do it ).
There is a short video of some guy fucking around with it:
It's nothing groundbreaking but it looks like a great toy!
Any of you tried it yet? Tell me what you think.
PS: I think if it fails at what it is meant to do, I can at least place it on the floor and stomp on it to control my guitar gear. After all it's just a midi controler with 8 pads and it seems it is not expensive. :Smokin:
I came across this thing on the webz by accident, but it looks promising. . .
It claims to be velocity-sensitive and somewhat resembling a real drum in feeling. It comes with its own small FXPansion BFD package, which you can also use as a standalone or plugin, but you can control practically anything that works with MIDI like Addictive Drums, Drumkit from Hell, softsynths and whatever else you got. All you need is a pair of drumsticks. And you don't even NEED MIDI, it also has USB.
Now, I am a lazy person and it takes me hours to write 2 minutes of drums using my mouse. Not to mention that the result is some uninspired and fake sounding shit. So I really think this would provide a much easier and faster alternative to drum writing. Even if you suck at drumming (like me), you could record everything in MIDI on its own (I mean snares only then kicks then cymbals only) and then quantize everything to death.
I usually think up drum patterns by drumming everything out on my desk anyway, so this would still be much more intuitive than using the fucking mouse (so uninspiring
uke: ) or a keyboard (I just can't do it ). There is a short video of some guy fucking around with it:
It's nothing groundbreaking but it looks like a great toy!
Any of you tried it yet? Tell me what you think.
PS: I think if it fails at what it is meant to do, I can at least place it on the floor and stomp on it to control my guitar gear. After all it's just a midi controler with 8 pads and it seems it is not expensive. :Smokin:
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