![]() ![]() Roland doesn’t seem to care much about their kits’ MIDI implementations – the HD-3, for example, only has MIDI OUT, and some of Roland’s kits only have USB MIDI which, on our MacBook Pro, suffered from note dropouts and pile-ups. ![]() For live playing, Roland is the king of the hill, and their focus is clearly on beefing up their kits’ internal sounds, with the higher-end models allowing you to import your own samples. My impression is that virtual drums are still stuck with an either/or mentality: either you use plugins to do drum part “programming” in a DAW, or you use an electronic kit (hardware with internal sounds) to play live. ![]() So far, my search for live drums plugins has turned up nothing better than Battery. For another example, cymbal “choke” is supported by Battery, but in a roundabout way that leaves much to be desired. The Roland HD-3 also reacts to its own cymbal pads in a better way than Battery does – depending on where and how you hit the cymbal, you get variations in the internal kit sound, whereas Battery only gives you a “bow” sound or an “edge” sound. I’m not a drummer but I’m pretty sure Roland’s internal sounds do give you this pedal opening/closing effect in the hi-hat sound, so I’ve been trying to find some live drums plugins that would do a better job with the pedal than Battery does. You don’t get the sound of the hi-hat gradually opening or closing. However, Battery only reacts to this controller as either being “on”, “off”, or “foot close”. ![]() The most obvious example is the hi-hat pedal: in the kit’s MIDI Out, pedal position data is transmitted using CC# 4 (foot controller). We no longer use any of the HD-3’s internal sounds – all the drum sounds now come exclusively from Battery in GigPerformer.īut lately we’ve been frustrated by a lack of expressiveness in this setup. As far as sounds go, Battery is incredibly flexible, enabling us to load up his kit with whatever samples we want for a given song. For the past several years my band has been using NI Battery 4 for live drums, triggered by our drummer from his Roland HD-3 kit. ![]()
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