Slightly disappointed, but hopeful
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 2:38 pm
Hi all,
Testing Aerodrums It's been a slightly disappointing experience, but I'm happy anyway. This is all I got:
1) Latency
It's really small, almost nothing. But it's enough to slow me down when I'm playing. I think I've tried all the settings, and I can't get rid of it. I own an iMac, not the latest, but I think it should be enough: 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5, 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM. Latency is a deal breaker, I hope I can fix it somehow.
2) Drums positioning
I've tried your kits, and I'm not comfortable playing any of them. I've tried moving everything around, but in the end things get worse. There's a lot in play here: camera angle, camera height, camera distance… and also the chair height, and the position your facing. And then, the drums position. You make a tiny change in any of that and it all goes to hell.
That's why I've been some hours trying to get the perfect setup, and no luck yet, but I still got hope, this looks doable.
Also, as I've read, I'm not the only one asking for some kind of drag and drop interface, but I've read your explanation about that, and I understand that this is not so easy.
3) Unintended notes
Although as I've said I didn't find the perfect setup yet, when things have been close to that, I've tried playing and there are always a lot of unintended notes. I mean, you can hear shots that you are not intending to play, or the other way around, you reach for a tom and you miss and there's no sound.
I've read this forum and I found some things I can relate to, like the guy that says the upwards stroke in the hi hat makes a tom sound.
4) The graphics are interfering with drumming
I get that a lot. Let's say I'm playing, and then I decide to do anything else in my computer, like playing a no drums mp3 song in quicktime player. That message shows up always if I try to do that. I know I can use fast graphics mode, but I don't get what's wrong here.
Sometimes my drums stop working after that, sometimes not.
5) Dettached lens
First day, and the lens is already broken. Not a big deal though, it's just dettached, I'll use glue to put it all together again.
6) The light
It's really annoying. Like really. Without glasses this is useless to me. I guess some people will not find this so annoying, it depends on how everyone's eyes work or something. But to me, this is imposible to use without glasses.
I know you guys are working on alternatives, good idea.
7) Technique
I'm a lousy drummer. I've tried your hand technique with bad results. My fault here, I can't really complain
So,
What I'm saying with all of this is I think there's a huge learning curve since you open the box and actually play drums, and I'm not there yet.
That's everything I can recall now about my not so good experience. There are also good things of course, there were some wow moments playing along a song, or just hearing the amazing sounds.
What gives me hope is your videos. As soon as I saw Richard playing I was sold, and I still think I can get there.
Any tips appreciated, and thank you very much for this amazing and fun drumset.
Pablo.
Testing Aerodrums It's been a slightly disappointing experience, but I'm happy anyway. This is all I got:
1) Latency
It's really small, almost nothing. But it's enough to slow me down when I'm playing. I think I've tried all the settings, and I can't get rid of it. I own an iMac, not the latest, but I think it should be enough: 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5, 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM. Latency is a deal breaker, I hope I can fix it somehow.
2) Drums positioning
I've tried your kits, and I'm not comfortable playing any of them. I've tried moving everything around, but in the end things get worse. There's a lot in play here: camera angle, camera height, camera distance… and also the chair height, and the position your facing. And then, the drums position. You make a tiny change in any of that and it all goes to hell.
That's why I've been some hours trying to get the perfect setup, and no luck yet, but I still got hope, this looks doable.
Also, as I've read, I'm not the only one asking for some kind of drag and drop interface, but I've read your explanation about that, and I understand that this is not so easy.
3) Unintended notes
Although as I've said I didn't find the perfect setup yet, when things have been close to that, I've tried playing and there are always a lot of unintended notes. I mean, you can hear shots that you are not intending to play, or the other way around, you reach for a tom and you miss and there's no sound.
I've read this forum and I found some things I can relate to, like the guy that says the upwards stroke in the hi hat makes a tom sound.
4) The graphics are interfering with drumming
I get that a lot. Let's say I'm playing, and then I decide to do anything else in my computer, like playing a no drums mp3 song in quicktime player. That message shows up always if I try to do that. I know I can use fast graphics mode, but I don't get what's wrong here.
Sometimes my drums stop working after that, sometimes not.
5) Dettached lens
First day, and the lens is already broken. Not a big deal though, it's just dettached, I'll use glue to put it all together again.
6) The light
It's really annoying. Like really. Without glasses this is useless to me. I guess some people will not find this so annoying, it depends on how everyone's eyes work or something. But to me, this is imposible to use without glasses.
I know you guys are working on alternatives, good idea.
7) Technique
I'm a lousy drummer. I've tried your hand technique with bad results. My fault here, I can't really complain
So,
What I'm saying with all of this is I think there's a huge learning curve since you open the box and actually play drums, and I'm not there yet.
That's everything I can recall now about my not so good experience. There are also good things of course, there were some wow moments playing along a song, or just hearing the amazing sounds.
What gives me hope is your videos. As soon as I saw Richard playing I was sold, and I still think I can get there.
Any tips appreciated, and thank you very much for this amazing and fun drumset.
Pablo.