that mpx16 looks awesome.
It will eeasily go into a backpack or laptop bag.
You wont need to take your computer with you to just practise finger drumming on a park bench somewhere. One SD card should be enough for 1 thousand drumkits.
I like the layout because you can drum ‘one finger on each hand’ - like a drummer using sticks (maybe using two fingers on one hand every now and then to replace the bounce, double stroke roll you can do with sticks)…but you can also play ‘four fingers on each hand’ - like a pianist or a ‘launchpad/ableton push2 player’…I like both styles.
It all depends n how sensitve the pads are…I will have to look it up online ‘mpx16’ finger drumming performance’ and take a careful look at how hard they are having to hit to trigger.
I wonder if there is a companion software to go with it in which you can just quickly as possible drag and drop the drumkits samples made in renoise onto the pads.
I have 400 breakbeat single hit drumkits and 150 vintage drum machine kits finished in renoise now finally…it was painfully hard work to get it all done…I wonder how long it will take to fill up some portable drumpad like that…
I dont think any of these will be able to do effects and modulation per pad like renoise can, but maybe I am wrong…Beatmaker3 may be able to…I dont know about mpx16 yet.
I like the tuned percussion as well…starting setting up kits with nanoloop on gameboy advance micro, PSPSEQ on PSP and adlibtracker2 on PC…for the first two I can do preparation for songs I will finish later out in the park sitting in the shade in natural surroundings, so nice to get outside away from computer desk, can travel with these things too.
This will be my next mission, trying to create many custom ‘tuned percussion kits’, then combining those kits with the vintage drum machine kits ive done and the breakbeat single hits kits…hopefully i can create some crazy ‘hybrid’ style kits, with sounds from all over the place mushed and melded together…which will sound crazy cheap (cheap like vintage, dusty shit) but weird and original.
PSPSEQ can do crazy tuned percussion with karplus strong, FM and a specialized kick drum synth. Nanoloop has that kind of cheap analogue sounding FM which can be nice for tuned percussion and adlibtracker2 can make the craziest cheap sounding, weird FM hihats…(cut them all up into single hits in renoise later). combine these things with fat tuned 808 (and other vintage drum machine) kicks, crispy and beautiful breakbeat snares (maybe with a lot of effects to make the ‘accoustic’ sounds fit well with the synthesized sounds). Many possibilities.
I think maybe this is the choice MPX16 or beatmaker3 for the portable finger drumming practise…depends on how long the setup will take, and the features available…will have to watch a bunch of videos about the features of both.
It will be so nice to get things finished up, including something live. Some live performance aspect that makes things less of a headfuck, more fun…maybe more entertaining to watch once im confident enough with it to rock it on a small stage or something.
I guess renoise is a kindof masterful software for composition, sequencing and arranging, sound design…mixdown, mastering…the best way to add a live element to renoise for performance will be pad drumming, play with xy pads, dj filters and stuff that people here on the forums created like that…complex doofer and macro i dont really understand yet…
another way could be sample out some of your renoise patterns into SP404A, triggers patterns live, mess with those nice effects…get some live drumming going alongside this with renoise laptop and pad controller…possibilities are endless… do a little keyboard solo, play guitar along to something in which that kind of rock sound or ‘real instrument’ sound fits nicely (probably something less saw and square and more sine and triangle based)…
Its going to be intense…just a matter of actually doing it…a lot of work.
need to level up and start really understanding things more like EQing, compression, saturation, limiters, mix levels…perpad effects chains, layering sounds…all this for the ultimate modern drumkits to be played live like the ‘spacedrummer’ and try to be portable so I can travel with it all, not to mention silent as possible to practise with headphones to maximize practise time.
After this back to working on harmony, melody, composition…armed with the best possible drum sound…first step after crafting best possible drum sound…making best possible bass sound…
so much to do its driving me crazy