 Hello, here I am sitting at a little kids table hoping I'm in focus you might be asking why are you sitting at a little kids table? This is my son's computer. We are going to test this out a Drum pad digital drum pad I've got this for him for Christmas and I tested out. It's about two weeks before Christmas You're probably watching this months from now. I actually already did open this just to see if it worked on its own But it's supposed to have MIDI capability, so I'm hoping be able to plug it in and just Get it working with hydrogen or LMS So real simple it rolls up so you can take it with you and there's a power switch and some drumsticks and My son wanted a real drum kit no way on my impact this he can put headphones on and play all he wants They have different drum kits Headphones you can plug an mp3 player in if you want to play along with them as I said it also has USB connection for MIDI Should I mean it's just a MIDI connection, right? So I should be able to plug it in and it should just work out of the box Mini is pretty simple. It's been around forever. It's pretty standard But I have in the past come across one or two MIDI devices that don't work out of the box It doesn't work out of I'm not gonna I'm gonna I'm not going to mess with a mini device that doesn't work because mini devices should just work I mean they've been around for 40 years, so let's go ahead plug this in and see if it works Again, that's one built-in drum kit and there's other ones Oh, I hit the click button stop So different sounds coming out of speakers here. It is battery powered charged through USB But now I haven't hooked up and I've opened up hydrogen running Debbie and Sid here My son runs Debbie and Sid with i3 window manager just like I do And my question is once we get this set up and I still gonna hear this is it gonna notes hook to MIDI Or am I gonna have to lower the volume on this? But let's see sorry now I know there's a lot of glare here, but in hydrogen if you have no sound coming out when you hit the pads Nothing's activating hit control or no alt P brings up your preferences Go to the midi tab and then under input click there for this particular device. It's just called USB midi one So I'm gonna select that and again this device and I click okay and okay this device it There's like a hundred different variations of the same thing on Amazon probably made at the same factory soul under different names. So I've selected this mini device Let's see what happens So that was a little bit my concern so it's still playing it sound but also playing there So you can just record notes here, but if we want to use the drum kit that's on here Let's see where I'm gonna lower the volume all the way down So the drums the sound is coming out of here now so I can use any drum kit or make my own drum kit on the computer It sounds Okay, that time the sustain There you go. Sometimes it's holding it and sometimes it's not there is a sustained pedal and a kicker pedal I thought maybe the sustained pedal would help alleviate that so It's working, but we have an issue again. It should sound like like that It's not holding the note So I think what I want to do inside panel here is the stains are yet I want to turn up the release. I think will help So I need to figure out which instrument goes to which pad so what I'm going to do first and again I'm sorry about all the glare I'm gonna hit record and then play and then I'll hit a pad on the drum pad and see where it's recorded to So I'm recording you can see it going across the timeline there. Whoops. I put a note down and I'm gonna hit one of the pads here There we go. So that's Tom number two so Tom Tom drum number two. So with that selected. I'm gonna come over here to the controls for Tom number two I'm gonna turn up the release. I'm gonna stop recording for right now and Try another one. So I'm gonna click record play. I'm gonna hit another Okay, so that's splash and actually it's nice. It actually automatically takes me there I can turn up the release on that Turn that off and now let's stop recording So I'll have to do that for each instrument, but I should be able to Do that for each instrument and save it for my son And then my plan is to just have it so he has command called drums and when he types it in it opens up hydrogen with that drum kit And of course he can learn how to adjust them himself. So Again, this is just a quick look at that again this drum set If you go on Amazon and just try to type in drum pads There's a bunch of them that look just like this one some that are slightly different but I'm assuming they're probably all made at the same place and This one particular one says son art. I guess is the name of the company But I'm sure they all work the same and yeah, so as many devices to take to add the box the only thing I had to do was Turn up that release so that it would hold the note see like that one. I haven't done yet So sorry about the quality of this video all the glare on the screen This is not my regular setup, but I figured I was gonna test it out and you guys might be curious about too I fairly confident that most mini devices are gonna work out of the box But you never know especially when you're actually cheaper stuff tends to work out of the box better It's when you get to the more expensive stuff They try to make it restrictive so you have to use their software which you really don't want an instrument You want to use your software so usually mini devices are pretty good. And you know, this was like $50 $60 for for this drum set, which I think it's gonna be he's gonna love It comes with the pad which can roll up and take you take with you. It's got a battery pack built-in speakers It's got comes with headphones little cheap little headphones of the USB Cable that's the word I'm looking for two wooden drumsticks a sustained pedal and a kicker pedal so you can even This is make more noise than the computer is but it's playing the kicker sound and Again, it has a few different drum kits built-in a click track few click tracks play and stop for that a demo mode I don't know what special does I haven't tried that yet Volume buttons, we're seeing backwards. This is plus and this is minus You would think they'd be the other way around and on the back here again. Yeah, let's turn let's turn that off we've got The input for the pedals for your headphones you can plug in an MP3 player So you can I assume play something to play along with and your USB port which charges the built-in batteries And also connects it to your computer for MIDI usage Obviously it's a cheap little thing, but even a good musician can make good music out of cheap little things like this So for my son definitely cheaper than a full drum set and a lot quieter for me since he can wear headphones It's great that it doesn't just play out of this but can be plugged into a computer Which expands it he can record the notes and change the drum kits later if you want so Yeah, if you're curious it works