Name: Rich D
Location: New York, NY, USA
Time Zone: EST (GMT -5)
Background: Drumming for 45 years, presently playing the "Neil Peart" role in a Rush tribute band (yy3band.com). Looking to change over from Acoustic kit for live use to VST driven e-kit, in the Neil Peart R30 configuration.
Looking for: advice and support
Hardware: Roland TD-50x, PD85, pd10, pd120 pads, KD-22A kick, VH-11, VH-10, FD-8, SPD-30, SPD-Sx, MalletKat Express, Roland Fantom XR, Mac mini i9 2GB/36 GB RAM, PreSonus interface.

Name: Hugo W
Location: Sint-Oedenrode, the Netherlands
Time Zone: CEST (GMT +1)
Background: Drumming for 4 months. I bought a Fazley budget kit to see if I liked drumming and, well, I do. Besides that, I am an Arduino / 3d print tinkerer, so I need to build by own e-drum kit.
Looking for: Advice and support
Hardware: Nothing, really, yet. Looking for guidance there, too.

DTX900 AP 29 Jun 2024.jpg - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte)Name: Andrew P
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Time Zone: AEST (GMT +10)
Background: Drumming for 43 years. I have a Yamaha DTX900 setup that I have upgraded over the years and added extra pads and cymbals. Running 2 modules to cover the large setup. Play all musical styles but Funk is my favourite. I use Superior Drummer and love the realistic sounds that I can generate. I spend a lot of time tailoring my drum kit sounds and always looking for improvements in my VST and hardware setup. Hi Hats are still the major VST "weakness" vs acoustic Hi Hats.
Looking for: Advice and support
Hardware: Modified Yamaha DTX900 with Additional DTXpressIV module. RME BabyFace Pro FS audio interface and Dell Precision 7730 Laptop, i7 6 Core 2.6 GHz, 128GB RAM, 1TB SSD and 3 x 2TB SSD.

Name: João
Location: Belgium
Time Zone: CEST

Background:

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm João, a software engineer currently living in Belgium.

Music has been a big hobby of mine for a long time. I started with piano, later picked up guitar, and finally started playing drums in late 2023. Drums have become a pretty serious obsession since then. 😄

I mostly play at home on my electronic kit, and I also stream live on Twitch, usually playing along to backing tracks.

Being a software engineer, I also really enjoy the technical side of things. I love finding problems and figuring out how to solve them with software, hardware, automation or some unnecessarily elaborate combination of all three. 😄

That's actually one of the things that attracts me to e-drumming — there seems to be an enormous amount you can do once you start combining the drum hardware with MIDI, VSTs, DAWs, routing and custom setups.

Current setup:

My kit is currently built around a Roland TD-27 with VAD shells, Roland digital pads and Superior Drummer 3 for sounds.

• Roland TD-27
• VAD acoustic-design shells / mesh heads
• PD-140DS digital snare
• VH-14D digital hi-hat
• CY-18DR digital ride
• Multiple Roland toms and cymbals
• Additional China and splash cymbals
• KD-200 kick
• DW 9002 double pedal
• Superior Drummer 3 + several SDXs
• Focusrite Clarett+ 8Pre

• Making the kit as responsive, dynamic and fun to play as possible
• Proper trigger calibration and velocity response
• Ghost notes, hi-hat behaviour, positional sensing, rimshots, etc.
• Getting much deeper into Superior Drummer 3
• Creating polished kits for Pop, Funk, Rock, Natural Studio, Arena/Stadium and other styles
• Using the setup for low-latency live Twitch performances
• Potentially hosting SD3 inside REAPER with multichannel routing and additional processing