Issues 'playing' aerodrums.
Posted: Sun May 29, 2022 9:16 pm
I've got a few issues 'playing' aerodrums. The software works fine and lighting issues are what they are. Software version is v1.1.2 which I believe is the latest. I've had aerodrums for almost 2 weeks now.
I've adopted a technique to hold the hats slightly open. I tilt my left foot a little (not front to back, but side to side) to open the hats slightly and this works well in that it's less tiring than holding the ball of my foot up. However, if I open and close the hats with foot in tilted postion, upon closing the hats, and after a short delay, the hats become tightly closed again. Seems to me like there is some logic to 'reset' the closed position. Are there any adjustable parameters?
Hihat barks don't feel natural to me at all. Just doesn't work like my acoustic hats. When I bark the hats I like to hit them as I open them. I can't imagine I'm the only one doing this. When I do this with aerodrums, I get the sound of the partially open hat followed by the hats opening silently. I can play 'air hat' barks by hitting the open hats and then closing the hats if I adjust my own timing, but I'd rather not have to. Can hihat barks be improved for me in any way?
Drum zones are not well defined. I've read in the forums that it's by design, but it's a terrible design if it can't be turned off. I saw in another post (from 2018) that 'hit filtering' might one day be added. There's a drum hit sensitivity option under the Latency menu that I have set to expert, but I'm still getting unintentional hits from moving my sticks to another drum. Is there another setting to enable? I really dislike the current behaviour.
I've adopted a technique to hold the hats slightly open. I tilt my left foot a little (not front to back, but side to side) to open the hats slightly and this works well in that it's less tiring than holding the ball of my foot up. However, if I open and close the hats with foot in tilted postion, upon closing the hats, and after a short delay, the hats become tightly closed again. Seems to me like there is some logic to 'reset' the closed position. Are there any adjustable parameters?
Hihat barks don't feel natural to me at all. Just doesn't work like my acoustic hats. When I bark the hats I like to hit them as I open them. I can't imagine I'm the only one doing this. When I do this with aerodrums, I get the sound of the partially open hat followed by the hats opening silently. I can play 'air hat' barks by hitting the open hats and then closing the hats if I adjust my own timing, but I'd rather not have to. Can hihat barks be improved for me in any way?
Drum zones are not well defined. I've read in the forums that it's by design, but it's a terrible design if it can't be turned off. I saw in another post (from 2018) that 'hit filtering' might one day be added. There's a drum hit sensitivity option under the Latency menu that I have set to expert, but I'm still getting unintentional hits from moving my sticks to another drum. Is there another setting to enable? I really dislike the current behaviour.