VST e-drum Workshop on June 27th + 28th, 2025 😊👉


"Possibilities of Software Drumming / Computer connection of e-drum hardware"


Who is interested? ➜ maximum 6 participants (the workshop takes place for 4 or more participants)
Please register via PM!
Registration deadline: Monday, June 23rd, 2025
The workshop is free of charge 😊.

Where? : Hannover, Germany, near the zoo in a hotel/restaurant (directly at the forest recreation area "Eilenriede" -- more information by PM if interested)

Free parking is available on site, petrol station and supermarkets are 1 km away,
Hannover city center 4 km away, zoo 1.3 km, other hotels/restaurants of any quality radius 2 km.


What will be done:

∙ Possibilities of Software Drumming / Computer connection of e-drum hardware
(Among other things: short introduction to e-drums with DAW and VSTs, everyone can play the drums, custom user dial-in, tips and tricks.
E-drum at home with practice and recording options, i.e. "Play Along Music" (bar-quantized loops possible!), play along with (and record with) Moises or YouTube videos)

∙ Details: see below

Ends around 7 pm, afterwards hang-out, maybe clubs, pub in Hannover


What is set up / built up there:

three e-kits (featuring V71 + TD-50X + eDRUMin ∙ (with Roland and drum-tec pads, i.e. all Roland digital pads, analog "VAD" pads, "PDX-8" pads for the tight budget, drum-tec Pro und Diabolo bassdrums und Porter&Davies Gigster

+

Lots of superb sounding drum samplers / drum libraries:

∙ Toontrack SuperiorDrummer3 SDX packs: Decades, Legacy of Rock, Rooms Of Hansa, Hitmaker, Jazz Sessions. Stories, Fields of Rock
( + EZDrummer3 and lots of EZ Drummer packs (EZXes), i.e. "Fusion" and "Big Stage")

∙ NI- Studio Drummer + Abbey Road Drummer with native R/L samples on snare and on the hihat ( ➜ R/L snare + R/L hihat)

∙ all GGD libraries (the new awesome "Modern & Massive 2" included)

∙ the MixWave library "Mike Mangini" in connection with a trip to the "Monster e-kit"

∙ other Kontakt drum libraries: Krimh Drums + Trivium Drums (by Bogren Digital) , Extinction Level Event (by Spectre Digital) , Fotis Benardo Drums (by Stigmatized Productions) , Odeholm Drums (by Odeholm Audio)

∙ the “Simon Phillips Studio Drums” library (for Groove Agent)

∙ Steven Slate Drums 5.5 ("SSD5.5")

∙ GoranGrooves "Handy Drums" libraries

∙ Aly James Lab "VSDSX" + "VProm"

...and many more if required


∙ Headphones and headphone amps from AKG, Focal, Hisenior, LakePeople

JBL "PRX" PA _+_ musical bass shakers: IBEAM and Porter&Davies (Play in front of speakers ...and with bass shakers for the ultimate sound and feel)


Further topics:

∙ the optimized velocity translation: "Detailled Custom Velocity Curves"

∙ Play Along Music (i.e. along 'drumless tracks')

∙ Drum recording with the most convenient and comfortable means ( ➜ e-drum MIDI recording + editing-options ( ➜ mending of drum takes ))

– The ultimate 'Superior Drummer 3' e-drum setups (with SDXes like 'Legacy Of Rock', 'Fields Of Rock' and 'Jazz Sessions' and the Core Library) featuring the following highlights:

∙ Stepless Snare Positional Sensing

∙ Left hand / right hand distinction on Snare drum and Hihat (hihat bow + edge + bell)

∙ Snare Rimshot vs. Shallow Rimshot vs. Rim Only

∙ Snare Throw Off function (possible with any kind of snare pad!) ➜ switch between Wires-On and Wires-Off while you are playing (Wires Off: Kicks and Toms will also be free of snare-buzz!)

∙ Hihat Drop Clutch function (without a real drop clutch being mounted)

∙ Double Kick vs. Single Kick Sound Engine for single kick pads (➜ switch while you are playing)


∙ SD3 live e-drumming : Switch SD3-Kits /-presets /-states on the fly (in short breaks between songs or even between song parts)

∙ unique new, extended creative possibilities with e-drums :
➜ Hihat Transmute Engine (with 4 Hihats) and of course with switchable states/functions



Assessment and commentary by BecauseDrumGeek:

Ultimately, I think one of the main topics for most people will be to experience and understand for the first time what you can do with e-drums in connection with computers, or how good e-drums can become with computers, what the sound impression is like, also in terms of monitors (headphones/speakers), because there is a lot of equipment available (➜ you have the opportunity to test equipment and get to know approaches - that should trigger ideas).

For you as an interested person, the workshop will be an event where you will learn and get to know something about the topic that you would not otherwise, as nothing like this is offered anywhere else.


Enjoy ❗️😊

Check out the 'Show Kit' ❗️😊👉

The BDG Show Kit: How inexpensive and at the same time functionally excellent can you get ❗️😊👉




∙