Hi Aerodrums people!
I am new to Aerodrums but an experienced drummer.
First of all, congratulations to the team for developing such a great idea, this is amazing!
But after having passed some time with Aerodrums today, my feeling is the tracking could get better.
There are still flaws and limitations, and to me this is mostly because we are drumming in 2 dimensions.
For exemple, I have a natural tendency to hit my toms with a 45 degrees angle because I have rack toms positioned that way on my real kit. What happens then is Aerodrums do not replicate the whole velocity of my hit as it only records the downward movement, not the forward part of it.
Aerodrums does not take into account my whole movement and all the details of my drumming.
Another exemple is with kit peaces positioning. I have my hi-hat on my left (I'm right handed). Looking from the front, my hi-hat, my first tom and my left crash are not too distant from one another. But that's not the case if you look from the top or from the side: my hi-hat is close to me and my tom is in front of me.
So if I position those drums peaces as on my real kit, they tend to pile on each other in the front 2D Aerodrums space.
I think you all real drummers here will get what I'm saying...
I am then wondering if it could be possible to track the drumming in 3D instead of 2D, especially for the sticks.
It would require maybe a second camera, more processing power and an redesigned algorithm but, man, this would really pass the Aerodrums experience to the 2nd level to me! Far more than the virtual reality features that is under development.
What do you think? Am I crazy?