For the discerning electronic drummer, the question of using electronic drums without a computer doesn’t even come up. I mean, who would want to do without the sound of a good audio interface, their favorite drum samplers or drum instruments, and their favorite audio plugins (which, for me, are also very important for optimizing the sound through headphones or speakers)—all with the ability to quickly adjust or edit them on the fly?

Who wants to do without incredibly powerful real-time MIDI editing tools and their significant role in optimizing the translation between e-drum hardware and software, as well as in creative e-drum engines?
Who wants to do without a track arranger for super-convenient drum MIDI recording + drum MIDI editing + printing drum audio (and, in that regard, the workflow of their choice) and play-along music and super-powerful learning drum aids like loop playback of beat-quantized sequences?
Well, not me !

And the myth—or rather, the smoke and mirrors—regarding the supposedly game-changing latency of non-computer sound generators has long been debunked (just like the claim that there’s a high risk of e-drum computers crashing).