Are you ever in situations where you use live triggering today?
Gavin Says:
No, I hate it - and when I did - it drove me crazy.
You can get it pretty good but never perfect at all times.
The best system I found was the DDrum 4 - because it reacted the fastest of the ones I tested - and you can put in your own sounds (VERY important). However - there were occasional mis-triggers and flams.
I tried triggering directly off the Axis pedal and that worked pretty good - but it's not an exact science in the way you set it up - so there's room for errors. Anything that involved MIDI was a n nightmare because of the delay - and I was hoping to get triggering down to less than one millisecond (the DDrum was about 4.5 ms) - some MIDI systems were producing over 10 milliseconds and you become very aware of a flam between the real drum and the sample coming out.
I know a lot of metal drummers trigger the bass drum - and you really have to for that speed and articulation. You can also try some drastic eq and gating the bass drum to a few milliseconds - and mixing that in with a standard mic sound.