all you get out of the drums is a note and velocity. Cheapest REAL trigger box would be something like a TD3 or dtxpress II, or an older alesis d4/dm5, maybe around $200 used? Those have more sensitivity adjustments, might be important for acoustic triggers.Īnything you use for drums should work.
The triggers themselves, you can buy them but AFAIK they aren't expensive to make. Or, you could try one of the ied drum pad sets too, you can get an ied05 off of ebay for <$120, which includes the whole drumset AND a usb trigger box, though i can't vouch for the quality (I will probably pick up one of these soon, just to play with). cheapest is probably an alesis triggerio, which are around $150 but I think you can get them for less. But, their pre-mixed drum kits are just a lot further from the sound I want out of drums than Steven Slate out of the box, for whatever reason, so I've pretty much had to cobble together my own custom kits.You need a trigger-to-midi module.
On the flip side, Superior Drummer 3's UI is much more user friendly, and it's much more intuitive to tweak drum sounds to match your preferences, and the cymbal samples are much more convincing. Also, FWIW, I find SSD's cymbal samples to be lacking - they don't sound as lush or full as a professionally recorded drum track should sound, especially not the hi-hats. It's so bad that, at least for me, it kinda canceled out the quality of the drum kits, which are "pre-mixed" to more or less sound like a finished, professionally produced drum track right out of the box. IMO, Steven Slate Drums has one of the most maddeningly unusable UIs I have ever experienced in music software.
I have Steven Slate Drums 5 and Superior Drummer 3, but primarily use Superior Drummer 3 (Trigger is something completely different - that's for replacing a previously recorded drum track with samples, rather than programming a drum track from scratch).
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