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I just posted a message on the question and answer section about electronic drum sets, and I thought that would make an interesting topic for discussion.
What type of electronic set do you like?  What kind of modules or combinations of drums/modules or sequencers?

We really need to get into this topic for awhile.

I have a Vcustom kit, which I don't care for.  And it's me, not the kit.

What I want in electronic drums/brain:

I want 6-8 pads with a midi out and really easy control interface with clear instructions on how to hook up two, 3- 10 brains if I want.

I want a brain where I can load my own wav samples or tones.  I also want the brain to be have lots of effect parameters but easy editing interfaces.  The the td-8's and td-10's are good for this/but I can't load sounds.

Yeah, when are we going to get more sampler-oriented electronic kits? You see keyboard workstations that are all the rage, which have different synthesis types, but also have built in sequencing and sampling. Why can't e-drums do the same?

I'd love to see someone make an electronic kit that has a front-loading CD drive for loading .WAV, .AIFF, AKAI and SDII files. That would be sweet.

My problem with e-drum kits are that the sounds blow chunks. And they're programmed with all this reverb and delay to cover up their crap sounds so that they sound "bitchen" on the showroom floor.

I'd like a kit with the following:

-Nice, soundless, drum-head style response
-Easy setup/breakdown
-A brain with great, built-in dry sounds (of course with built-in FX you can add later) with a genunine sampler with which you can edit the waveforms and do some time-stretch/downsample/filter tweaks... you know, like a genuine sampler.
-6-8 audio output channels

Didn't emu, who makes killer samplers, buy DrumKAT? Why don't they work together on a kit that puts the VDrums to shame? Just use the same engine as the e6400 or something.

Don't know about E-mu...their phat planet boxes etc/ really interest.  I'm not sure how I could trigger them and then get them to shut off quickly.  I'm probably just going to have to buy a bunch of stuff and start hacking.

I've got the emu Planet Earth, which is awesome. But I use it for composing, not as a brain to trigger sounds. I suppose I could, but I'd still rather have a sampler full of sounds that I've created myself.

It would be great to mic my own acoustic kit, tuned the way I like, then record an assortment of snare, tom, kick, etc hits and save all the notes as samples, then trigger them from some kind of integrated sampler/e-kit. This way the samples would not only sound like my kit the way I like it, but also capture my playing style. Now that would be sweet. :)