Home Made E-Drums - Addictive Drums

Home made electronic drum kit. I built triggers into an acoustic kit, and used mesh heads to keep it quiet. I'm using an Alesis DM5 as the midi brain, and Addictive Drums plugin in Logic Pro 8 software.

So it's a real kit, with MESH heads (think expensive Roland electronic kit.) There is a mounting bar underneath the skin that I mount a $2 radio shack piezo microphone on, with foam making contact from the piezo to the drum head. The cymbals are plastic practice cymbals with triggers (also piezo microphones, literally screwed right into the plastic) with cymbal dampeners on top. There's a guy on ebay that sells a kit, with the mounting brackets and high hat converter. The cymbals you have to do yourself, but I think my cymbals are every bit as good as the $100+ ones you can find used.

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Music

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• electronic
• drums
• DIY
• Addictive
• Drums
• home
• made
• roland
• TD20
• TD10
• Alesis
• DM5

[emerald876]

how much would something like this cost to make? looking into an affordable way to get an e-drumset that sounds realistic

[higginsrob]

I was lucky enough to get the pearl practice drum kit from my buddy for $50, but all together the kit was about $120. The most expensive part is the midi brain, they go for $150 - $2000, I'm using a cheap one (alesis DM5) just for midi conversion, and software (Addictive Drums) as the sound module.

[higginsrob]

if you want to go super cheap, just screw a piezo pickup from radio shack ($2) into any surface you want to beat on, presto drum trigger. Wire that up to a midi brain and your good.

[danuu2]

Just constructive criticism: you should work more on your timing with a metronome.

[higginsrob]

yeah, I'm not a drummer. This just a demonstration of a kit I made. Plus this is over a year old, I'm a lot better now, thanks.

[TRES70]

Hi!

Can I do the same with a

Yamaha DD-65?,

I use Addictive Drums / Cubase software.

Thank you.

[higginsrob]

I don't know if the Yamaha DD-65 has external trigger inputs. Maybe, check the back.

[MrRamminator1]

accoustic drum kits will always rule

[NastyNatey]

@MrRamminator1 I agree, but not everyone has the luxury of being able to play them, living in an apartment, renting a room..plus, the process of mic`ing drums can be tedious.

[TheSlandi]

@higginsrob Don't know if you ever tried it with your DD-65, but I have one and I'm going to attempt to install 1/4" plugs and connect the wiring to the internal trigers so that when an external trigger is plugged in, it disconnects the internal pads and uses the external ones.

[KaslarProductions]

Nice 5/4 signature

[ronnysoeberg]

@MrRamminator1 No one really cares. Acoustic guitars will always rule as well. As will pianos and modular analog synths. Yet electric guitars, stage pianos and virtual analog synths/vsti/AU are the norm. Make music and enjoy it instead of caring about any of that inconsequential crap. Most the music you and everyone else listens to has been "fixed" by some producer in a studio in one way or another. And these days, drums are processed in such a way that they sound digital anyway.

[bullmastif921]

@shahzains most acoustic sets are cheaper than electronic ones...

[fretsbie]

@danuu2 It is a demo video of an acoustic kit adapted for MIDI use. I don't think this person is suggesting that they are a professional drummer or anything to that effect. The video description also doesn't ask for criticism via some comment like - "Hey what do you think of my playing." I doubt you would go up to someone in an ugly coat on the street and criticize them, so why feel it is right to do that here? YouTube would be a much better place if people came here with their manners.

[holapegame]

awesome kit man!

[tim0mansell]

Is that Tortoise?