What pads do you use for programming drums?

[EggoSpartan]

Hey all,

Been a laptop drummer for a little while. Resorted to clicking in/copy pasting groups of notes; It works for easy/straight stuff, but when you get into odd meter, triplet/swing feels, the time it takes to click it out kills the idea..

I bought a Korg Nanopad 2 to solve this issue, kinda sorta does the job, but only at slower than 16th notes at 100-120 bpm. It doesn't register a lot of my hits and makes me resort to clicking them in anyways (Inspiration thoroughly killed)

To some of the homies here, what do you guys use? I'm not planning on playing Trüe Cvl† metal with my fingers, but when I want to break out into some cool blast beat grooves I want the pad to actually get all my hits!

 

[bryan_kilco]

http://www.rolandus.com/products/td-30kv/

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I know something like that is probably out of your budget.....just throwing it out there.

 

[EggoSpartan]

http://www.rolandus.com/products/td-30kv/

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I know something like that is probably out of your budget.....just throwing it out there.

Very much so. But believe me when I say that is the goal piece of gear hahaha.

 

[bryan_kilco]

On the topic of electronic kits, how would it work if you wanted to live-monitor a library like Metal Machine? Wouldn't the latency be horrendous? Or you'd just live-monitor the sounds from the kits brain and then just use whatever library once the midi is recorded?

 

[EggoSpartan]

Never had the opportunity, but I'm assuming it'd either work by loading the samples into the Box (Assigning samples via however Roland tells the kit how to think) or plugging in via USB and hoping latency wouldn't be too bad.

 

[~BURNY~]

A mouse pad

 

[EggoSpartan]

A mouse pad

As stated by the OG post, I'm looking for a way to take my compulsive, problematic finger tapping into drum beats. Without having to take the time to separate the drums, click them in, and re-hash everything when it doesn't come across exactly as It is in my head (I'm not a drummer of course)

 

[Nikolas Quemtri]

NanoPAD 2 is quite enough for me at home and there are also eDrumset/acoustic drums at studio if a real performance needed.

 

[anotherpaul]

Tried using pads on novation launchkey mini, but clicking with the mouse and copying patterns turned out to be faster than hitting pads, quantizing and fixing quantization errors.

 

[AD Chaos]

Steinberg CMC-PD. Best for finger drumming, ime (and cheap, too).

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/backline/912285-any-ultra-sensitive-pad-controller-finger-tapping-drumming-out-there.html

 

[JoeMeek12397]

MPD18

Out of the box it had sensitivity problems too, you really had to pound it and certain hits still wouldn't register. This is because there is a small amount of space between the pads and where they need to make contact, but, you can put electrical tape under the pads (or buy a cheap mod kit) to improve sensitivity and its really helps. Or, from what I've heard, you can buy Thick Pads (or whatever they're called) and some people claim they feel and play really close to the MPC's.