Roland TD20's worth?
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traqstyle
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My take on edrums is the main players like Yamaha DTX or Roland TD series are very very pricey, mostly because of their technology in their sound modules and partly in how well the pads are built, be it multi zone or not.
Other smaller players have a different approach, they do away with the sound modules totally, and instead leverage on the power of todays laptops or moreover desktops with the established Drum softwares.
Do a youtube of Alesis USBpro Kit, or RET Drums.
My thoughts on it is, if I already have a quad core, 8gig ram desktop. It could beat hands down any module that comes with a kit out there.
With reasonably priced (very nice playable kit) put it together with an already existing Computer, a midi interface and software like BFD2.
The price comes out to Half of what a 2nd hand Kit like the TD20, with extremely flexible multi sampled or hyper sampled kits of Drumsoftwares, with humanising patches to make the tracks come alive.
In a nutshell I think 5k kits that comes with modules aren't as cool as cheaper kits that are paired up with powerful computers (that we already have) and a $400 software that's super flexible to work with DAWs.
So to answer your question, how bout asking for a discount of half that price, or look at other technologies out there.
Other smaller players have a different approach, they do away with the sound modules totally, and instead leverage on the power of todays laptops or moreover desktops with the established Drum softwares.
Do a youtube of Alesis USBpro Kit, or RET Drums.
My thoughts on it is, if I already have a quad core, 8gig ram desktop. It could beat hands down any module that comes with a kit out there.
With reasonably priced (very nice playable kit) put it together with an already existing Computer, a midi interface and software like BFD2.
The price comes out to Half of what a 2nd hand Kit like the TD20, with extremely flexible multi sampled or hyper sampled kits of Drumsoftwares, with humanising patches to make the tracks come alive.
In a nutshell I think 5k kits that comes with modules aren't as cool as cheaper kits that are paired up with powerful computers (that we already have) and a $400 software that's super flexible to work with DAWs.
So to answer your question, how bout asking for a discount of half that price, or look at other technologies out there.
tim098
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Traqstyle
Thats some really cool info there, so if I do what you suggest and get a cheaper kit with a powerful computer, what are the downsides to it? Other than the hassle probably.
Also to answer the question, I doubt the seller will go any lower. When I last checked, which was quite some time ago so I MIGHT be wrong, $6000 is the list price of Roland's 2nd best model, while the TD-20 was $8.5k. So getting it at 5k is almost a steal to me, but if you do want to get it make sure you try it out first and it's all good.
Thats some really cool info there, so if I do what you suggest and get a cheaper kit with a powerful computer, what are the downsides to it? Other than the hassle probably.
Also to answer the question, I doubt the seller will go any lower. When I last checked, which was quite some time ago so I MIGHT be wrong, $6000 is the list price of Roland's 2nd best model, while the TD-20 was $8.5k. So getting it at 5k is almost a steal to me, but if you do want to get it make sure you try it out first and it's all good.
