Hi,
My name is Shannon and I am from Australia.
After tons of research comparing Yamaha, Alesis, Roland, Pearl (epro live) and 2Box, I am now at the point of purchasing a kit. I have spent the last 10 years playing the Roland gear and am now ready to venture to the dark side!!!!
I have narrowed my selection to the Yamaha DTX950 and 2Box Drumit Five for the reason that you are able to easily download your own samples into the brain. The 2Box is the obvious choice for this reason, but I do have the following questions:
1. I hear the rack is moderately unstable. Will the hardware clamps etc transfer to a Roland rack? Has anyone done this? How does the kick trigger and module mount?
2. Does the module allow you to apply effects/compression etc to the samples once downloaded? If I have to apply effects to the original samples, then reverbs etc would not sound natural as they would be retriggered.
3. Is it a one-shot trigger per sample or new sample with each trigger? Can I select a trigger option?
4. Polyphony? how many notes and will it cut off samples?
5. Not much has been said around the electronic sound banks. The acoustic sounds I have heard are quite impressive, but are there many electronic sounds (808, 909.....but not cheesy car horns)
6. Anyone on this forum from Australia? If you don't mind me asking, what price range did you pay?
I am sure a 2Box forum will help me get over the final hurdles.
Thanks
Shannon