Digitech - SDRUM

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Has anyone tried the Digitech SDRUM? How does it compare to the beatbuddy? Any opinions would be greatly appreciated
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QuotePlayed again yesterday and it was probably my best experience with the SDRUM so far. I'm still preferring the pads to the guitar strum - not because the latter doesn't work (it does), but just because I have a little more practice using tap pads to program a simple beat in a desktop or iPad DAW versus strumming a drum rhythm on guitar. Where the SDRUM design is really genius is that non-drummers like myself can pretty quickly pick up a sense of the interplay between kick and snare drums in a rhythm pattern, but asking us to also figure out what to do with hats, toms, etc. is just too much. I came up with a pretty good variety of simple 2-bar patterns in my head yesterday, and it was like the SDRUM knew what I was doing before I did.

The creation of choruses automatically is a big improvement over the TRIO, also. With the TRIO, I think the idea was that you could just train 1-3 "parts" for a song, so you could make your own verse, chorus, and bridge. But trying to train the pedal three separate times to get rhythm and bass parts that sounded like they belonged in the same song...I found that exceedingly difficult. I much prefer how this is handled in the SDRUM, where it just creates the chorus as a slightly busier and more intense variance of the verse, and you get additional choices to switch in different hat and drum patterns.

The intensity LED's seem like a subtle thing, but they're not. Some songs have loud, intense choruses, while other may have a bunch of rides and other things going on constantly, but not necessarily with additional intensity. This is all additional control you didn't really have in the TRIO, and it helps the SDRUM produce much more "human" feeling accompaniment.

Oh, and I also used the AUX IN jack to receive a flat mono signal from the SDRUM, and I think if you have that option in a combo amp, that's really the preferred way to go. My amp is the Katana 100 and it's just a perfect companion for this at home, but it's much more liberating to have the SDRUM split out separately to the auxillary output and not worry about the effect of reverb, drive, or other effects on the amp on my drum sound.

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QuoteTom Von Kramm said: ↑
Our Harman Canada Engineers who developed the SDRUM also clandestinely included the ability to sync MIDI devices to the SDRUM via the JamSync connector. The SDRUM must be the master since it only sends these MIDI commands.

carlb

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Often, if nothing else is giving me the feel I'm looking for the Digitech SDRUM allows me to get something close to what I need.
https://www.digitech.com/band-creator/DIGSDRUM-V-04.html

You can either hit the pads on the front, or train it to your guitar "chunkas" - lows are kicks, highs are snare hits. The box then figures out the rest for you based on the knob settings for styling and meter.

Pros are just how intuitive it is to start working with and getting something pretty decent. 36 tracks with three sections each. I've been able to do separate meter (4/4, 3/4) for different song sections.

Cons are:

  • It's not super intuitive to figure out more involved workings (change between songs, record song sections, re-record sections) - you have to RTM.
  • You can't record 'stems' of the kick, snare, rest of kit, it's just one output. (It has stereo output, so maybe two channels?)
  • You can't match an exact tempo if you erase a track. (At least I haven't been able to. Tough if you want to try some other feel out.)
  • Too easy to mess-up a track and not be able to get back.
  • You can't download/upload tracks. (The USB is for new software downloads - which I don't think there has been any.)
  • You can try playing along to a metronome, but the SDRUM won't exactly match it (that I've found). The Trio+ does a bit better at this.
  • It has a synch out, but no synch-in - and the Trio+ has no sync-in. Dang!
For messing up a track - the SDRUM does allow you to copy your track to other tracks. Think I need to start copying/pasting tracks before any heavy editing.

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