Using an electronic kit with VST drum software?? Help....

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I have an audio interface and will be purchasing Superior Drum 2.0 this week, but since I am a drummer I would like to get an electronic drum kit to use with the VST software rather than just program the drums. What's the easiest way to do this? Do I need a module with a USB out? or will MIDI out do just fine? I have ZERO experience with this, so any information would be extremely helpful.

Also, I'm guessing if I'm using the VST software for the sounds I don't need the top of the line e-kit...so what would you suggest? On old Roland TD-4 kit? I'd like to spend as little as possible on the kit, but I'd also like good quality and QUIET pads. I thought about purchasing a new TD-11 or DTX522 kit....but I think if I'm using the VST software that would be more than I need, plus they are like a grand.
 
I can help.

Our drummer uses a Yamaha DTXtreme II as his kit at band rehearsal(we rehearse at our guitarist's house). Keeps his Ddrum kit at home. The important thing is make sure the Brain has midi out. I think some cheaper electronic drums don't have them on their module/brain.

He paid $800 for his used about a year ago, and it has it's moments of acting weird, but most of all it is solid. One other important feature is feel. The mesh pads on the Roland stuff feel more like heads than actual rubber pads...but as long as the triggers are solid, I would rather have that.

We bypass his Yamaha Brain/Module and go midi out to a Macbook with Addictive Drums. Sounds way better than the Brain's tones. Just know that you will probably have to assign mapping at some point depending on what daw, or program(superior 2.0) you are using. My guitarist had to remap addictive drums in Logic.

Either way, works for us.
 
We are running a Roland kit via midi into the interface and using addictive drums as a plug in on the midi track. We had to map the kit to match everything up, and had to deal with some latency issue's, but its been solid for 3 years and sounds killer!
Much easier to get great drum sounds consistently, and you can change anything you need to easily ;)
We pretty much mix the kit into one track, but you can do each drum into a seperate track if you need to. Once we got everything set, we opted for simple :thumbsup:
 
So, any basic Yamaha/Roland kit with a brain that has MIDI out with be sufficient?

What used kit do you think would be the best option? TD4? DTX?
 
You're a lawyer now, get the top of the line Roland with full size heads and mesh pads!

How much are you looking to spend? The best feeling electronic drums I have played is the 2box e-kit. That's after I had a full mesh td9 kxs kit. I find the feel of the mesh heads on the Roland is nice but they are very small. I'd rather bigger heads than uber realistic pads as it fees more like a drumkit to me when everything is full size.
You may want to look at the Alesis DM10x, it's a pretty good kit as well!
As for your question, any brain with a usb or midi out will work very well with superior drummer 2.0.
 
Not a lawyer yet :( Still waiting to be cleared by the Florida Bar nazis.
 
The Yamaha stuff has larger surface heads, Roland are smaller, unless you you get the top of the line $3000 stuff. Alesis I haven't tried. I don't think the 2box stuff is available in the USA?
 
Don't want to go Alesis, bc the pads are not very quiet.
 
I used to have a rubber pad, Roland kit and had a neighbor (elderly) complain about the noise as she was trying to listen to some classical on a Sunday afternoon. :lol: :LOL: It was in an apartment type situation. I was using headphones so we're talking pure acoustic noise from hitting the pads. I told her to go for walk. If I get electronic drums again it will definitely be mesh head style.
 
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I used to have a rubber pad, Roland kit and had a neighbor (elderly) complain about the noise as she was trying to listen to some classical on a Sunday afternoon. :lol: :LOL: It was in an apartment type situation. I was using headphones so we're talking pure acoustic noise from hitting the pads. I told her to go for walk. If I get electronic drums again it will definitely be mesh head style.
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I'd, at the very least I'd like to have a mesh snare. Toms don't get used quite as much. I'm not in an apartment, but I am in a townhouse. No one is under me, but there is someone connected next to me.
 
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