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The ddrum 4 uses 16-bit samples (with a 4:1 compression  I think) but the drumit 5 uses 24-bit badboys

There's a good article here ...but you might want to copy and paste the text into Notepad - light-blue text on a white background doesn't make for easy reading

...and no Guitar-Player can torture your ears.

Hahahaha yeah. Try playing with a DJ too - those cuts and scratches HURT

p.s. great breakdown puttenvr, I learnt a lot from that.

those xponaut people really need to do something about the spam links infesting that article!

Edit: I sent them a poke and it looks like they've fixed it - good work xponaut :-) I'll see if I can get some more information out of them about the DrumIt software.

Fair enough . I reckon Bengt is buying himself 2 weeks' time with the comment as there are obviously a lot of variables involved in getting products into shops. By my reckoning we're looking at 29 July at the earliest.

We aim to keep the board free of sales spam and whatnot - please get in touch with me if you want a link to your shop or store here!

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Freaky, this post has been eaten!

Ok, so the gist of what this post used to say is: BUYERS AND SELLERS BEWARE! - there are some dodgy mofos out there who want nice music gear and money for free. Please always be careful when giving out personal details etc.

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Nice find Theo.

Edit: just got a reply from Bengt at 2box:

"I think the first kits will end up at the distributor next week and then of course it's a matter of days."

Hold on in there, not long now

Hi Theo

You'll need to extract the .mid files from the zip folder. Then grab the ddrum4Tool.exe (for Windows) from above.

You'll need to tell the Tool which soundcard to use by clicking on the Setup menu and selecting your soundcard in the dropdown (doesn't need to be a pro card for checking out the sounds - I just tried it out on my PC at work ).

You don't have to hook up the DDrum via midi to audition the sounds.

Load up one or more sample from where you extracted the files, and all you have to do then is highlight the loaded sample, and click "listen". Let your ears do the rest

Edit: if you're looking to trigger the sounds from the TD 8 on a PC (ie without the DDrum brain) it might be quite a long and tiring job - not sure if anyone has any better ideas, but the only way I can think of is to audition each sample through ddrum4tool.exe and "record what you hear" if your soundcard supports it. To be honest, much as I love the DDrum sounds, it's probably noit worth the effort seeing as there are so many free drum hit sounds around on the web. Hope that helps.

> Just a question: why not painting it orange a bit ?   
Great idea

> And what about those hex-pads on the background     

Heh heh heh *whistle*

...oh and welcome

Hi there

This place is becoming a useful resource for people who are looking for information, advice, sort out technical problems, or just let off steam about the 2box drumit 5 - we've got some great regular posters who really know what they're talking about (you know who you are )

I've personally been anticipating the release of the Drumit 5 for a very long time - I've had my DDrum 4 SE kit for something like 12 years and while I love it to death still, the tiny 8mb of RAM is really showing its age, and the heavily compressed sounds could really do with the 24-bit treatment.

Most of my music output these days is done in my small studio, so I am really enthusiastic about the specifications 2box are ramming inside the Drumit 5 for drummers and producers.

Please do register and join us on the forum and tell us your story!

Thanks
Tom