Musical instrument manufacturers Yamaha have started to expand their electric drum-kit range as far as desktop kits.
With respect for electric kits from its peers in the bag, thanks to the hugely popular DTXtreme IIs kit, Yamaha has begun to deliver smaller, more portable friendly drum/pad machines. The Yamaha DTX Multi 12 looks more like electronic synth pads and houses 12 velocity-sensitive drum pads and a sound module in a compact, low-profile unit.
The on board sound module collect sounds from a local Yamaha Motif Synthesiser and comes as standard with 1200 individual voices. The module also caters for users to upload their own sounds and loops to the 64MB memory and assign selected pre-made patterns to specific pads, making the unit useful for triggering samples and patterns, as well as connecting it to laptops via USB for easy management of its 200 different drum kit setups for live play.
Available this December (with no exact release date yet) makes it an ideal Christmas gift, at £685.
The Roland V-Drum presser is the latest release by Roland’s increasingly better looking electric kit range. The TD-20SX is basically a nice balance of Midi and built in sounds and better kit resonance with a module that boasts the best aspects of two other earlier models from Roland in one module. The TD-20X module combines the features of the popular TD-20 and TDW-20 expansion boards in one unit. With over 900 expressive, dynamic sounds, 100 different internal kits and the latest V-Edit features, including kit resonance, additional microphone parameters and much more leaving you with a handsome arsenal of incredible sounds.
Drum specs sit like this:
TD 20X Percussion Sound Module x 1
PD 125X V Pad x 2
PD 125XS V Pad (Snare) x 1
PD 105X V Pad x 2
VH 12-SV V Hi-Hat x 1
CY 14C-SV V Cymbal Crash x 2
CY 15R-SV V Cymbal Ride x
1KD 140 V Kick x 1
With prices for this particular kit starting at £2,699 the TD-2oSX is by far the most expensive kit in the range but you can buy from as low as £120. The promo below is the best showcase we could find for the different voice in the library of sounds it comes with, as well as a short explanation of the unique features.
The on board sound module collect sounds from a local Yamaha Motif Synthesiser and comes as standard with 1200 individual voices. The module also caters for users to upload their own sounds and loops to the 64MB memory and assign selected pre-made patterns to specific pads, making the unit useful for triggering samples and patterns, as well as connecting it to laptops via USB for easy management of its 200 different drum kit setups for live play.