ALCHEM-E Sound Test

Quick sound test of just one of the preset kits (Norwell Custom). Completely unedited, raw sound straight from the module. Throw on some decent 🎧 and check it out! I’m a little biased, but this kit looks, feels, and sounds killer.

[@RandomlyDrumming]

Sooo good! Perfect sound and really tasty playing.🤌

[@eggydrums]

You just might have the best available demonstration of this kit on KZbin right now. For some reason very few videos show prolonged playing and a lot of them also sounded quite bad... Which gave me a bad first impression. But your performance here really impressed me, especially with how good the actual drums sounded.

[@inertiadrummer]

🙏

[@edsfox]

This type of music makes want to buy a drum set.. Very nice playing man! Keep it coming!

[@inertiadrummer]

Thank you so much! If you want hundreds of tracks like this, check out Tim Baltes on Bandcamp or @timbofromkeno on Instagram. That’s where I got them. He has a bunch of albums full of drumless backing tracks that are super fun to jam along to🤘

[@thundermktg]

Nice Mike!

[@user-os3hu7zc6k]

Sound Nice

[@igotbit9454]

Epic playing. I guess we just found my new drum set.

[@sunnibird]

Have you seen the price on this thing? Yikes.

[@igotbit9454]

@@sunnibird yes but I’m rich so

[@thewinegeekdan]

❤❤❤

[@keirmilligan6352]

Sounds really great. How does cross stick work? Noticed an accidental trigger at one point. Is is supposed to detect the hand pressure on the snare drum head?

[@inertiadrummer]

Yeah there’s a couple in there, needed to dial down the cross stick sensitivity just a touch. Cross stick is a combination of velocity on the rim reading the head and shell/rim sensors.

[@KenWoLf31]

Great demo, this sounds great!! I'm wondering what your honest opinion of the cymbal triggering is. In your video it seems pretty darn good, but I notice that your playing is also very precise, your cymbal hits especially are 100% on pointe. I've seen some videos of this kit where it seems the cymbal triggering can be less than ideal if your hits aren't maybe as precise as yours are. Do you find any of that with this triggering system?? Is it something that can be mostly fixed within the module settings?? I know the hi-hats have some pretty powerful settings for adjusting to how your foot sits on the pedal and the pressures that you play with, do the other cymbals have in depth settings available as well?? Have you noticed any shortcomings in the triggering at all?? Again, great video, great playing. This video really shows the bar this kit is setting, I can't wait to see where they go with it!!

[@inertiadrummer]

Hey thank you for the kind words 🙏 Yes, the trigger settings for all drums and cymbals have a ton of adjustability. You can tweak and dial things in to meet your particular playing style. Should be good out of the box but it really comes to life when you spend just a few minutes tweaking for your playing. The triggering is very accurate. Most videos out now were recorded using old software versions and/or have not totally adjusted cymbal settings within the module. Between the algorithms going on behind the scenes and the trigger setting adjustments you can make in the module, these things play just like the real thing, it’s so much fun🤘

[@douglasshelton3482]

Will it be possible to control Matt Halpern drum sounds with this e kit?

[@inertiadrummer]

@@douglasshelton3482 you should be able to use any external VST you’d like with the E-VAULT 👍

[@downnorthmusic]

How you feel the hihat on this verses VH-14

[@inertiadrummer]

I’ll just say, there’s nothing like playing on actual alloy hihats like these 👍

[@downnorthmusic]

So do you feel it’s better cause the hihat is the one problem e-kits have a trouble getting right

[@inertiadrummer]

@@downnorthmusic these hihats are easily the best I’ve ever played. They are light, nuanced, and incredibly responsive.

[@stahlmandesign]

@@inertiadrummer When I press down hard with my foot on hi-hat I feel it never has that tight sound, but I just played in a store and didn't calibrate the hi-hat like the Zildjian website shows. Hopefully I can fix that cause everything else feels great. Drums generally feel closest to real drums so far for e-kits. Feels like a version 1.0, but it is, so just imagine 2.0

[@user-os3hu7zc6k]

Do you know what is the next firmware update about?

[@inertiadrummer]

Yes. Mostly dialing in trigger settings even more and adding some instruments to the sound library.

[@user-os3hu7zc6k]

@@inertiadrummer I think it would be a good idea to do this firmware before the lauch. I tried the gold kit in my Music Store and the triggering was terrible… I don’t know if it was just the setting configuration or not… It will be hard to sell unit like this..

[@inertiadrummer]

@@user-os3hu7zc6k yessir, that’s exactly what we’re doing. These kits in store have pre-release firmware and may not all be dialed in correctly. There will be an optimized firmware v1.1 available right at launch middle of next month 👍 Big reason I shot this quick video, to show what the triggering can really do when it’s adjusted.

[@RandomThingsMan06]

So this is only a prototype right

[@inertiadrummer]

Everything here is final production, other than the module firmware and sound library which will continue to get updates 👍

[@joetesta9123]

Stud

[@ledoov]

how'd you get yours so soon?

[@inertiadrummer]

Hey there 👋 I work for Zildjian, I’m actually the lead on the ALCHEM-E project (which is why I mentioned I’m a bit biased 😅). Wanted to throw together a quick video so people could see a little bit more of how the kit can really play when it’s dialed in, and this still isn’t the final firmware we’ll have ready by June. Much more to come!

[@ledoov]

@@inertiadrummer ah! wish these were shipping now. also any ideas where I can test one in PORTLAND OREGON?

[@inertiadrummer]

@@ledoov there should be a demo kit at the Beaverton Guitar Center you can check out! It won’t have final firmware just yet but you can get an idea of how the kit plays.

[@ledoov]

@@inertiadrummer SWEET

[@ledoov]

@@inertiadrummer are all the kits samples of real kits or "digital" like Roland? I really just want great sounding real sounds if possible similar to how I've triggered superior drum 3 samples. But I hate having to do that I just want a great module.