But I’ll lleave this debate out of this article.Īnyway, with an ever growing and evermore diversified offer, it’s hard to even know where to start looking.Īnd so, after a lot of research, I managed to identify 4 categories of e-drums, so feel free to skip directly to the sections you’re interested in by simply clicking them. And depending on who you ask, some will actually tell you they’re better. Once more of a toy, or a cheap and dull alternative for frustrated apartment drummers…Įlectronic drums are nowadays a completely viable alternative to acoustic drumsets. Roland also created a whole new way sounds were created on the module, but that’s a bit out of the scope of this post.īut if you wondered why Roland was such a big name - if not the biggest - in the electronic drums industry, these 2 innovations probably explain it. Roland – which basically rewrote the rules of the game with its TD-10, the first e-kit to sport mesh pads.With 2 major names making their first contributions to the market:
Now, it wasn’t until the mid/late 90s that the true revolutions appeared… If you were around back then, you probably remember it and its hexagonal shaped pads.
To show you just how far they’ve come, in this post I’ve compiled a list of: Not only are they great for live settings, they are particularly useful in the recording studio…Īs some even have multiple outputs to connect each drum to a separate channel on your audio interface!Īnd every few years or so, these kits get EVEN BETTER. Some of today’s kits sound so impressive, they’re tough to distinguish from the REAL acoustic drums. In the decades since, they’ve gotten MUCH better. When electronic drum kits made their first appearance in the world of music?
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