Since there's been a growing buzz around USB e-drum expanders and sample import from VST drum libraries: Drum library manufacturers, prepare yourselves against piracy! Because I'm sure that illegal versions or excerpts of your original libs will soon start popping up for these USB e-drum expanders.

Toontrack, GGD, MixWave, StevenSlateDrums and many other drum library providers, brace yourselves! Otherwise, thanks to the e-drum USB expander hype, your libraries will very soon end up online as ripped sample downloads for computer-averse e-drummers, because who wants to subject themselves to the unpleasant—if not unspeakable—act of creating these samples, especially with large and extensive libraries, and especially when you consider that it’s mostly total computer novices or computer haters (and unfortunately, most drummers are) who will use these things—which in terms of hardware will likely soon no longer be just DIY. If drummers weren’t so computer-averse, they would do without these limited and cumbersome sample import processes and play the most powerful e-drum systems (that are editable on the fly) in real time right away.

And once again, to put an end to the nonsense being peddled to potential buyers: The claim that these devices have significantly lower latency than computer-based solutions is just a smoke screen! (Note: such a device is not a trigger device and therefore cannot compensate for trigger device latency). Once a marketing slogan like that (which plays into potential buyers’ wishful thinking) gets thrown out there, everyone parrots it without realizing that the “huge latency advantage” is maybe 1 ms (compared to fast computer-based systems), and they go wild and celebrate it...