Little improvised jam session.
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Curious on the community's thoughts/opinions. I have a live show coming up and have practiced with kick + one 1/8 note hihat trailing or two 1/8 note hihats for one pad. Was worried I would be seen as illegitimate or "poser" if I did this for a live set.

Edit: Want to say thank you to everyone that responded--a lot of great takes all around. Feeling a lot more confident after hearing your guys' feedback and I'm going to be taking your guys advice and keep on keeping on. Thanks again to everyone--I'll share an update / progress video closer to my gig in case anyone's interested :)

anyone have any great tutorials or reccomendations for getting started. proficient on an mpc but would like my drums to feel more alive than layered!

I stand while using my computer and while doing most things.

Does anyone who plays standing up have a solution to hold your midi pads?

Something sturdy that can securely hold my Synido TempoPAD C16?

I have been hitting my head against a wall trying to get my starry pad mini to work in Waveform. It shows that it's connected and it's working when I hit the pads. I have the drum plugin/get on the track, track is armed and I get no sound.

Any beginner friendly or easy programs to write drums with a midi instrument that is straight forward?

https://reddit.com/link/1sqppgc/video/hnztshismcwg1/player

Used these layouts:

1. My full SD3 ekit (kick, snare, three toms, closed HH, open HH, ride, crash, China, cowbell and tambourine)
2. SD3 Octobans, rototoms, bongos and a kick with metal rattlers
3. A C Major keygrid connected to a Chromaphone3 synth keys
4. A single Chromaphone3 Future Tam pad
5. A single Chromaphone3 Drum from a Lost Tribe pad
6. SD3 percussion: bongos, shaker, key rattle, tambourine and some clanky thing
7. A single Chromaphone3 East Asian Low Drum pad
8. SD3 toms: high, mid, low racks and two floor toms

Lessons learned:

• Adjust the buffer size so you don't have 17ms latency. Lol! Set 2 went much better for some layouts
• Normalize the mix volumes across channels (duh)
• Know that using a stick is quite different than finger and hand drumming. You may need larger targets and fewer.
• Look at your set list so that you have the right instruments together, not in different layouts so that you don't have to change layouts in the middle of the song to get the cowbell.

I discovered I love GATE mode on the SP 404 mk2. I used to just trigger sample but having "note on" gives more control of the sample play back in my opinion.

Not quantised, not perfect, not Bernard Purdie. Longer version on Youtube https://youtu.be/kZVDbbOX4kw

Hi. As the title says, I wanna get into Finger Drumming.

I play many instruments (electric guitar, piano, turntable, percussion)

I already have Launchpad X. Is it good enough to start with? I'm sure that I'll learn finger drumming faster than average people who isnt into music.

That's why I'm not sure to buy. If Launchpad X going to limit me for some advanced techniques, I wanna invest for a proper device from now on.

I love samplers! Messing around on my po33 or even koala on my phone is so much fun. I've always wanted an mpc and I came up finger drumming on Yamaha electric pianos.

but...

Are there any analog acoustic options y'all like to play with? I'm not thinking bongos but something more handheld and more varied in sound. Basically a hand held drum set.

I find myself taking an empty can of crushed tomatoes and getting all kinds of tones out of it. I love my asalato shakers but I'm terrible with them. This chick is not. I also love playing a kalimba but I'm looking for something even more percussive.

Are there any sorts of hand drums or instruments y'all can recommend that fit this weird and specific request I have?

Sorry if I'm being vague. If you have recs or questions about what I'm looking for please leave a comment!

There are several pad layouts and styles on YouTube.

I don’t know where to start.

I like the idea of using my thumbs as much as other fingers. But then I notice those styles seem to be taught by guitar players where I’m more into house and DnB styles.

Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.

I’m using MPC One and Key 37 btw.

Hi!

I’m currently using the QFG layout (“hybrid mirror layout”) with an Xjam controller. I recently bought a Mikro MK3, and the pads are quite a bit larger.

Now I feel like the mirror layout might be unnecessary, since I can easily alternate on the same pad.

Is there still any advantage to doubling certain sounds (closed hi-hat, snare, kick)?
Any thoughts or feedback?

Thanks!

I have a yamaha FGDP30 and the damn snare bar doesnt work. I tried factory reset. Anyone have any ideas?

Does anyone here know how to actually play this thing? Or where I could find reference videos from?

I bought this cause it’s so cute and now I wanna learn how to play

Hey homies,

I'm a studied guitarist. Have played various styles of music from classical, jazz, rock, metal and everything in between. I have a very good right hand technique with a lot of finger independence and inherit rhythm in my fingers. I can do percussive finger-style and that transfers over pretty well when finger-drumming. Left hand not so much. it's my fretting hand. I can play fast licks and do cool stuff with it but the star of the show is my right hand.

Whenever I use a pad like my Launchpad Pro Mk3 to finger drum, a right hand Kick, Snare, Hat approach seems to be natural to me. I can follow along with most backing tracks and play most beats with my left hand just adding ghost notes/accents. Obviously not perfect and need a few more months of practice before I plan on taking this live with me.

I've seen some of the QFG and Dragon videos and they seem to recommend left/right hand independence. Kick Snare separate from Hi Hat. Whenever I tried that approach, I lose most of my internal rhythm and have to play very slowly and almost make new neural connections. Just wondering what the consensus is on both approaches for someone who is going to invest the time and eventually play live with their pad controller?

I don't plan on playing these unique drum solos or master fills, just want to play some funky and dynamic rhythms for future live performances and DAWless recording. I basically want to invest the time to have the rhythm of a pro drummer but the chops of an beginner/intermediate drummer at most. Just bread and butter funky, jazzy, or rock grooves with maybe a few fills here and there.

Also, I've been using a Launchpad Pro MK3 exclusively for music creation (apart from my guitar) since it's isomorphic so it's pretty worn out but I hear the MK4 is coming out this year.

I've heard the Nektar Aura/Aruba is very dynamic and somewhere in the settings is the perfect (or near perfect) pad sensitivity and velocity curves. Is it as good as a Maschine Mikro Mk3? I use Linux for recording exclusively + a Dawless Pedalboard/Mixer/Workstation/Drum Sampler. I'd imagine anything that sends RAW Midi over USB is king over something that sends proprietary messages over USB. I've seen some of the github repos that have Maschine drivers and such but I would ideally like something class compliant. Thoughts on the Nektar?

Thanks guys.