Archive for the ‘Music Hardware’ Category

TC Powercore MKII / Access virus

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Hello,

finally I bought the latest plug-in for my Powercore MKII. It’s the ACCESS VIRUS from TC Electronics.

I have to say it’s an amazing plug-in and I don’t wanna miss it anymore. It’s a 1 DSP License but you can use 4 instances on one DSP. That means you can arrange 4 different sounds from one synth!!! That’s amazing!!

For now I don’t need to handle lots of synths and other freaky things. Now I only need my virus and therefore no other plugin.

More Informations coming soon…

DW 4002 double pressure foot machine

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Hi there,

yes I did it. I don’t know why I bought that exactly but in my eyes I needed this tool. Now I’m gonna double-base ya ;)

Well this tool is just pure fun and drumming is much more funnier – I’m not good and especially not fast with the DW 4002 but I’m trying to get faster every day. To learn the basics I searched for several videos on the internet and found a really cool thing check this out =>

So the DW 4002 is in my eyes a good start – well I it’s not too expensive with 169,- EUR but I didn’t want to buy the expensive one. It’s easy to build together all pieces – additional tools are included so no problem for me to get this hot thing running.

The stacks are connected each with one chain. I’ve heard that the springs are little less quality and sometimes they brake – well – I hope that this will not happen in future ;) )

It rocks and I will give ya some experiences later on…

Roland TD-3 electronic drum

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Hi folks & freaks,

I have bought the Roland TD-3 drum set and I’m very proud of it. I decided to buy such a real-feeling drum because I got sick of playing drum patterns with my synthesizers. Ok and it’s a special feeling about that hehehe I love playing drums!!

I bought the e-drum with the necessary rack and chair. Additionally I’m using wood drumsticks – but you can use all drumsticks you like. It is very important to setup the e-drum as described in the manuals and after that hell yeahhh it’s ready to go!!!

Samples:
The drum samples are really great especially the natural drum sounds. If you never played a drum before then it is indeed a very special feeling while playing the 909 drum sounds manually and not with the synthesizers keys!!! A few years ago I had a Roland drumcomputer and I was really impressed of the samples they used – so now I can say the samples are really perfect.

Technique:
First I wondered why I only have two crash elements and thought “ohh crap this is not good, this will destroy my drum feeling” – but after my first testing I recognized that the crash elements and most of the other things like the snare or the hihat can be used as a kind of double setup. That means I have one crash element but I can setup this element with two different sounds, my first WOOOOW ;) really great thing – snare, HiHat, ride, crash can be setup with two different sounds. My second WOOOOW was the experience that I can stop the crash by grabbing it with my hand – the sound stops – awesome!!

Overall:
Recapitulatory I can say that the TD-3 is very solid and if you put it onto a carpet it will not move anywhere, because of the metal spikes and rubber elements on the rack. Ok maybe it’s a little bit to compact but in that case it will not take much space in the room ;) )

My best decision – my recommandation