Someone wrote to me in late February 2026, saying that something like that (creative e-drum innovations based on conventional drumming) had already been around for ages. I replied: I’m curious to see that. Show me!...

Important example: hihat :
Show me creative hihat transmute engines such as the "Superior Drummer 3 - four hihats ENGINE" or other mute engines for (multiple) hihats. Show me Toggle Engines such as "Switch X-Hat ( / Hihat) Openness during a song by pad hit" or "Hihat Engine Toggle for creative e-drummers" ('normal variable hihat on bow and edge' vs. ( = toggle while playing) 'bow is a fixed closed articulation and mutes the variable edge or vice versa'). Show me how an e-drummer can switch between "variable open/closed" ( = with all degrees of openness, controlled like the main hihat from the only hihat controller pedal) and fixed "tight closed", as well as "normal closed" and "closed loose/semi open" on his second hihat. (And all this using superior-sounding drum libraries).

Such hihat engines are an essential, extremely enjoyable, and highly attractive aspect of creative enhancements based on conventional drumming, which are only possible in the world of e-drums, not acoustic drums.

One of the strongest arguments for E instead of A (and for an E-A distinction in general), which (at least in case of the transmute engines) also has a major influence on the way drums are played. New movement patterns and groove & pattern worlds can be explored and discovered. The feet can play double bass and hands play open/closed patterns as the hat part. New rhythmic patterns emerge, and the whole thing shines with added appeal thanks to the contrasting hat tones in the case of multiple hats.