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Pages: 1 Tuckson Tiger Talk Trainee Reged: Jan 05 2012 Posts: 2 Loc: Netherlands software       #47655 - Thu Jan 05 2012 10:27 AM (31.184.75.7) Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   Hello, As a total newbie on drumming, I'ld like to ask a question on behalf of my 11 yr old son. This week he bought a 2nd hand electronic drumkit cheap from some saved pocket money. It's just for fun and to start drumming again (Had some lessons some time ago) so he does not need very much of quality yet. But he found out he needs a pc with this thing. Well, OK, I can live with that. However, the software the kit came with is quite old (meant for W98). So I was wondering if anyone here could recommend some free software that can be used with input from this drumkit (can turn it into midi) and that is easy enough to be used by an eleven year old kit? Can search online of course, but my problem is that I am not into this electronic drumming thing, so don't understand really what is meant with all the buzzwords. He just needs something that gives him the opportunity to hear his drumming. If the sounds can be changed/varied a bit it's pretty nice too. Recording and stuff like that is not yet neccesary, but a pretty direct playback would be nice. Thanx for your replies in advance, cheers, Eric -------------------- - Post Extras:       Tuckson Tiger Talk Trainee Reged: Jan 05 2012 Posts: 2 Loc: Netherlands Re: software [Re: Tuckson]       #47656 - Thu Jan 05 2012 10:34 AM (31.184.75.7) Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   Hmmmm this might be something? http://www.etrigger.net/ Still in for other suggestions. Cheers, edit: hmmm... it's not free -------------------- - Edited by Tuckson (Thu Jan 05 2012 06:56 PM) Post Extras:       pljones Tiger Talk Pro Reged: Aug 30 2006 Posts: 171 Loc: London, UK Re: software [Re: Tuckson]       #47659 - Fri Jan 06 2012 08:36 PM (188.220.56.222) Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   The key word is "MIDI". If the kit connects by MIDI, you can use any MIDI software on the PC and it will work. If it does not use MIDI - i.e. the Win98 software is the only thing that understands it - you could have problems. However, I would recommend using Google to search for the kit by name as, in some cases, even proprietary kits have been "unlocked". Assuming it uses MIDI, then you have a huge range of software to choose from. Finding "the best" (or even the right one) is certainly not easy and a very common question. Setting up for free is also not necessarily easy. Another couple of buzzwords coming up... One option I can think of is MULAB 4 (not 3.2.14; v4 is "nearly" released), which comes with a drum module. It's not the simplest approach but, as it's a full Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), it will let you record what you play too and it's thus "all in one". Its drumkit isn't the greatest sounding but it'll at least let you hear what's happening. Another alternative is to get Analogue Drums' Big Mono kit and load it into a free sampler, rather than Kontakt. (I'd recommend purchasing Kontakt, too, if you decide to stick with e-kits.) If you get Cakewalk's SFZ sampler, you can use it with my SFZ mapping of Big Mono. For SFZ, go here and get both "sfz197.exe" (the main installer) and "sfz.zip" (a replacement, patched file once unzipped). Kontakt and SFZ will both run as normal Windows programs but they also have "VST" (Virtual Studio Technology) versions that plug into a DAW - which is the way they're usually used. Edited by pljones (Fri Jan 06 2012 08:39 PM) Post Extras:       Pages: 1

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