Roland VAD706 Electronic Drum Kit Demo Featuring TD-50X Sound Module

[@sweetwater]

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[@soulslaveone]

Its not really a hybrid is it? Hybrid drums = electronic and can be used with acoustic drum heads. But they are acoustic looking:)

[@J.RProductions2024]

@@soulslaveone agreed

[@gatlinproduction]

Is there a video for setting up and recording internal inside of the module Midi And audio and then opening or transferring over to computer for Mixing? This I would like to see. Please, Because on the TD50 module I had to Mix songs sitting on my Drum set. Not Cool. So I had to pull the TD50 Module off the drum set and bring it over to my Mixing desk via Midi just to swipe out different Instruments to better fit my song track. I really wanted to use my sound design that’s in Roland TD 50 and NOT USE DRUM SOFTWARE.

[@ianmclean5541]

It’s just unbelievable they don’t give you a hi hat stand for $8000! $8000!! Come on.

[@robertlucas9867]

Great playing and demo Nick. But $8000 for a drum kit with machine gunning sounds, no body, no sustain, just very sterile I can’t justify spending for this kit. The sounds have no body, it ain’t “THICK!” I attempted to adjust the sounds and you can’t make them sound natural with full sustain and decay but I can make the Pearl Mimic Pro have that dry short attack like a Roland. 🤷‍♂️ The triggers are 20+ years old on toms and cymbals, people can make them at home because the piezo pickup has been around since the 1800’s so they should not cost this much. $2500 for module is reasonable but the sounds are still decades behind Pearl Mimic Pro and drum VST software. If someone gave it to me, I would midi out to the Pearl Mimic Pro or a VST for better sounds but seriously this is over priced. I’ve talked to many drummers who say they are done with Roland because they charge to much.

[@Colonel_Satan]

I’m waiting for the Mandala drum pads. This Roland kit is absolutely horrible sounding for the price.

[@robertlucas9867]

@@Colonel_Satan I hope they are good.

[@robertlucas9867]

@Derek Frampton aKa 1PaPaD1 if it ain’t affordable and thick 🤣 then I’m not interested.

[@howtobeatadrum]

Right there with you brother

[@journeyseb]

Overpriced... yes, absolutely! But they are a business and they can charge whatever they want. If they could not sell those kits at those prices, they would not sell them at those prices. Regarding the rest of your post, sound is a matter of opinion and the fact that people can make triggers at home adds nothing to your argument. If you prefer the Mimic or VST's, go right ahead and use them my friend. Having the sound you want is what matters after all. This is the best kit on the market no question about it. I would prefer it being in a price range I could afford, but nothing will change that unfortunately.

[@rimshot223]

Garbage. I fail to understand how we still can’t make an electric kit that sounds good (by that I mean real) We have the technology. It exists in the box already. Manufacturers are fixing non issues like making it look like a real kit instead of making it sound like a real kit. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@robertlucas9867]

I agree, the piezoelectric pickups have been around since 1800’s. The bass drum uses a pad from a discontinued pad that was $100 brand new at the time. That bass drum alone would be over $1200 since the black 20” is around $1200 and the 18” around $1000 but it’s the same pad. These drums should not cost that much and Roland still makes terrible sounding samples.

[@friedpicklezzz]

I wish Roland solved the toms rapid fire effect. Sounds aren’t blending which makes it sound fake.

[@angelrgdrums]

Aaaaaaaand stil insane machine gunning... 8000$ bucks kids LOL

[@BamBam_PDX]

For realz. All these years of R&D and the acoustic drum sounds are still not anywhere near realistic.

[@Tony_spumoni]

Wow you're not kidding or exaggerating. That intro was horrendous

[@fur10usal50]

Yeah but you can load sounds onto it from superior drummer and what not which is cool!

[@jackaler5973]

What is machine gunning?

[@Tony_spumoni]

@@jackaler5973 that's a reference to when the drum sounds, usually toms, sound like a machine gun instead of drums. This is usually caused by the lack of a difference in tones/samples within the module, so it's essentially repeating the same sounds as you play quick rhythms. It sounds unnatural.

[@edlieberman8673]

Man, really cool concept, but for $8k I wish the sounds didn't sound so obviously "electronic kit"

[@stationlightyears1532]

I have the TD30KV Pro kit and it is great, but disappointed in many of the sounds - I'm hearing machine-gunning and gating from 20-odd years ago. As you say - a lot of money for something that often sounds like a Dr. Rhythm!

[@ennis437]

100% AGREE if my 2012 MacBook Pro can run Superior drummer 3 why can't we have a module with enough CPU to do the same thing? Love the trigger accuracy of the Roland kits and modules but for me the samples are not even close to competing with VST's yet

[@horaciococcioni8538]

The sounds in edrums modules and keyboards don't sound as good as vst's and huge libraries because they are design for playing live, with ultra reliability, inmediate loading times, and ultra fast response with no latency. I imagine that a module that does that will cost a lot more money, and if you want, you can bring your MacBooks and audio interfaces into live playing. I think is far more important to see this as an amazing controller, with great dinamics, awesome look, and a module that reads what is happening perfectly. I'm a keyboard player, I also have a Roland td4 kit. My roland rd-700gx that I bought 12 years ago is a great controller and stopped my need for newer keyboards. My roland td-4, on the other hand, is an ok controller, but I really want something like this to use with vst for years to come. I actually think that the td-27 with the digital pads and acoustic like shells will be more than enough for my needs and my way of using it, but it's really cool that roland is getting this out there.

[@soulslaveone]

Its made for vst's! In that regard, ots the best Ull get. Got the vad506 with toontrack sd3. Using it in studio AND live.

[@soulslaveone]

@@horaciococcioni8538 And its 2,4 ms latency (nothing) using sd3. Latency is not a problem with a modern pc and soundcard in 2021. And the mimic module proves that using big samples in a box has the same latency as roland. But the mimic cant even compare to sd3.

[@nentihaiudittu]

It is laughable how bad these sounds are, machine gun triggering in this day and age is just ridiculous at this price point. But these kits themselves are awesome to play, i would consider buying them, and use it with Toontrack software. Also, i love each video with Nick, he is such a cool and knowledgeable guy.

[@AtTheSourceStudios]

Roland = Digital Machine Gun City 🏙️ ....for $8 grand.... .... 😂 😆 😂

[@rgarcia4412]

Machine gunnnnnnnn 🤣

[@lecoolnest]

wow a 11K$ drum that doesn't come with hihat stand, snare stand and any pedal is savage. Roland likes robing people hard

[@gretschludwigdrummer209]

Can't see the point just put some mesh heads and some triggers on your acoustic kit ?

[@journeyseb]

If I could afford it, the point for me would that this is plug and play and looks great. I don't have to fiddle around, just sit down and play. What you propose is absolutely an option if you are so inclined.

[@Steffentrommelt]

Don´t give me 900 sounds - give me one to play with and which changes with every kind of different hitting

[@bluesiliconedot2190]

And black?

[@stress_taco]

it does that

[@lauritzvelthaus9379]

sounds awful! great playing though

[@soculese]

Nick could sell sand to a beach. Anytime I watch a demo that Nick does I instantly want the product. Genuinely informative guy.

[@soculese]

That being said, Sweetwater should have him do some demos of Superior Drummer!

[@HaydenGriffis]

$8000 and I don't get a flippin hihat stand... That's craaaaaaaaazy.

[@regalasongs2256]

my belly sounds better

[@christopherpederson1021]

Lol

[@arbogast4950]

It looks great and I'm sure it plays well. However, you guys really need to adjust the settings for Nick's playing. All that machine gunning and those terrible presets have to go 🤣. Maybe look into a 3rd party sound designer to add some "sweetwater kits".

[@ericdamewood6000]

Why? Why is this so bad? This is so painfully awful sounding. How on earth is anyone buying this thing? There’s no way these are real recorded samples. All I want is for someone to do for electric drums what Nord has done for keyboards. Honestly Roland, just have regular recorded kits with round robin sampling to get rid of this machine gun crap and ditch the frivolous edit tools and then add solid plugin processing to manipulate the tone the way we all do mixing real music instead of this crap. Also it looks dumb.

[@ianmclean5541]

I think Yamaha DTX sounds better by far.

[@venteach.6289]

Literally every Yamaha e kit sounds better tbh

[@yelltempus]

Why is the bass drum so long? Nobody needs an 18" deep trigger pad.

[@kevindube7096]

To pretend like it’s real

[@ProcashFloyd]

Watching your Demos makes me wanna buy a drum kit and I'm a guitar player.

[@TheGruveMaster]

At some point, the cost of a product becomes too high to justify the purchase. Here, Roland has hit that plateau. They look and sound great. But $8k is insane. How is a musician supposed to afford that?

[@soulslaveone]

This is made for vst's. In that regard the vad706 is the rolls royce of electronic kits! Got a vad506 using sd3 decades, and its simply unbeatable.

[@thesoulpainter]

You are correct 8k is a lot of money for most of us. If you do a breakout of what you get for 8k it’s a little easier to write the check or should I say get that loan. High end 5 piece drum kit $2,599, studio quality 2 crash, ride and hats $1500, studio quality mics and pres 20k plus, studio quality mixer and FX $$$$$, sample player and a rhythm coach. 70 premium kits and 900 instrument sounds.

[@TheGruveMaster]

@@thesoulpainter 8k is a lot to spend all at once, especially if your buying this as your primary set. When you buy an acoustic set you can add on over time and enjoy playing the kit even before you get all the other stuff.

[@nathanbraun2067]

they sound like shit lol. just get the pearl mimic and some nice drumtec drums

[@bluesiliconedot2190]

@@nathanbraun2067 pearl mimic? You mean the elephant in the room? Abandoned in the corner like a puppy

[@Es-ch3nn]

I still hate the Roland sounds.

[@MrTripletts]

Roland? Comon!! Listen to that floor tom...your soooo close. If i bought these they would solve the machine gun problem the following week!!! Ill wait patiently

[@thesoulpainter]

This demo sounds like out of the box trigger settings. With a little tweaking you can get them sounding pretty real. It works well for me.

[@Johnbobon]

@@thesoulpainter I have a TD30 and have never fiddled with settings. What do you recommend?

[@thesoulpainter]

@@Johnbobon start with your trigger settings. Make sure they are correct for the pads you have. Then adjust the other settings until the drums react like real drums. Page 126 in your manual for more info.

[@Durwood71]

@@thesoulpainter Seems like for $8000, you shouldn't have to fiddle with trigger settings to get decent sounding toms. And I say that as someone who otherwise loves Roland.

[@midniterumorchestra8022]

@@Durwood71 I don't believe it's a one size fits all. Different playing styles and velocities play a part in tweaking trigger settings. I think being able to adjust the trigger settings at the level Roland gives us is pretty cool. Like keyboard controllers playing piano samples, you have to tweak the velocity sensitivity for different players to make them react like a real piano.

[@DanFrancisBand]

I love Sweetwater. I will be a customer for life. I love my sales engineer. I love Nick as a drummer and a presenter. I love Roland too and will continue to buy their products. It just disappoints me that after all these decades, they have not yet cracked the code of how to make electronic drums not sound artificial and “machine gunny.” Triggered samples on a mesh, rubber, or a regular mylar head kit through a program like Superior Drummer sound 100 times better than this for a fraction of the cost.

[@boricua9071]

At this point its maybe worth it to get the digital snare and ride for triggering on a vst like superior drummer but even then you could just buy a 27kv for 5000 less.

[@nayaleezy]

I bet my sales guy is better than your sales guy

[@IsaiahStewartJazz]

Nick is the coolest. Electric drums are great for slow and moderate fills but machine gun big time on the toms when you start really shredding anything really fast

[@reactiverbossnetwork7619]

That mostly depends on the quality of the Kit, I’ve known Roland and Alesis to make really good quality electric kits that don’t really have issues like that

[@dh4094]

Anyone else hearing a terrible 8 bit washy digital sound on all the cymbals at the opening playing demo ?

[@infectiousfiles]

if only it was just the cymbals..that tom fill at 7:00 is so digital sounding

[@robertlucas9867]

All the time. I can’t stand Roland anymore and the pricing. Pearl Mimic Pro beat Roland in sound but electric pads are so expensive for being made of cheap parts.

[@journeyseb]

@@robertlucas9867 So basically you just post the same thing on every Roland product video. At least post it only once.

[@robertlucas9867]

@@journeyseb I realize when you say my argument is invalid, it’s not because of facts but you ignore basic economics of supply and demand so any further comments by me or others is pointless because you will just repeat “invalid” to anything you want to ignore.

[@journeyseb]

@@robertlucas9867 On the contrary, the fact that Roland can charge this much and still sell the kits is exactly what supply and demand economics describes. Sucks really hard that they can get away with these prices but if there was 0 demand at that price they would sell it at a lower price. For 8k, that thing should be blowing me and making me dinner as I play it! But it does not change the quality of the product. I've not heard the kit for myself yet, but I'm pretty sure SD3 and SSD V have better sounds. But for an out of the box, plug and play kit, I doubt it would not be at the top of all ''Best E-kit'' lists. I'm on a TD-11 with SD3 at the moment, but back when I had the TD-30, I VEXed the heck out of it and played without even thinking of a VST. It was so easy, just plug and play. I have better sounds now, but it is not push a button and play. That is worth a lot for many people. The % of DIYers and people who want to mess with VST's is not that high. I'm personally quite curious to see what Yamaha will put out to replace their flagship kits. In my mind the 950k was fighting it out with the TD-20 series for the top sport back then. I still prefer their TCS playing surface to 2 ply mesh head but the 3 ply has bridged that gap. That was a long time ago though. Alesis has been making quite a splash on the market and if their latest multipad is any indication, their next flagship could be right up there. Too bad we lost ATV, I was really hoping they would stick around. Really enjoyed their cymbal range.

[@boringuserhandle]

Unfortunately, the Roland sounds (especially the toms) are still just as fake and lifeless sounding as they were when I had my TD6 about 15 years ago.

[@jeffsimerson4479]

Nick always make me want to buy what ever he is pushing on us!! Love this guy!!

[@Durwood71]

After Nick plays it: "Wow! This kit sounds awesome!" After I play it: Wow! This kit sounds like crap!"

[@tbip2001]

Even nick can't save these. I think there's some set up issues because they sound terrible. The drum tec channel has them sounding a little better.

[@pauldrums2141]

How many organs do I have to sell to buy this?

[@TheDayisMineTrebeck]

Just a kidney, it's "only" $8k haha

[@leeDs718]

dammit! came here to hear the drums and now i wanna play all of my Spock's Beard CDs

[@TheRhettjohnson707]

Worst sounding 8k drum kit I've ever heard

[@joemac7214]

Hi Nick u r the Man! I have the PDA Pads with the TD-50 module just waiting on the the X upgrade release. TD User since the 90's here....

[@jackphantom]

they need to fix that whole "tom roll sounds like the same tom hit over and over" problem.

[@johnryan3374]

Roland NEEDS to take their sounds up a few notches before I'd pay for this kit...

[@venteach.6289]

This is why drum software exists

[@Sea_Bears]

Call me crazy but I still think Yamaha has them beat as far as the sounds.

[@damiendegrasse]

Easily, the tom sounds on this are a disgrace at this price.

[@TheCurtainLift]

This sounds like garbage 😂 especially for 8 grand Jesus

[@grueurgrue2108]

I got an Alesis kit cause I'm not a millionaire.

[@stationlightyears1532]

Alesis make great kits! I still have a D4 module from 1995, still going strong.

[@drummermike5150]

I got the Strike Pro SE about 3 months ago. Haven't had to tweak anything. Sounded great right out of the box. No analysis paralysis here. And it's 2.5k and not 8k.

[@Tkivo]

This kit is waaaay too expensive. At least here in Europe.

[@myworshiptool]

Sounds like roland from 15 years ago....seriously 🤔 Yuck

[@MikeVincentVO]

Love the homage to Steve Gadd and the “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” groove when you demo the 70’s kit. Not a bad sounding electronic kit - but the floor tom still sounds too “unrealistic” to me.

[@LDdrums20]

The toms in general suffer a bit of machine gunning effect. But I've heard some people in youtube that somehow configured the module to avoid it

[@dakshk7877]

I just wish I had enough money to buy this I have a $100 drum kit believe it or not pls do try to do a giveaway even for people outside USA

[@BraeburnTV]

Meh, it looks and feels nicer but it still sounds like artificial garbage. Especially those rolls on the toms, sounds like Casio keyboard drum samples.

[@Marcus-wv6wm]

Machine gun sound lol

[@michaelkonopka]

I want to buy every kit that Nick demo's !!!

[@TheFULLMETALCHEF]

Why bother to add unnecessary expense of shells when it’s the pads and rim triggers that matter? They still don’t have the “alive” sounds of a real trap.

[@kurtpeeters8892]

And add superior drummer 3 🤣 then it'll actually sound good as well

[@kareydavis]

exactly

[@mrlinde6518]

Yep

[@heroinbath1877]

I like Roland's cymbals snares and kicks but those toms made me sell my td-17 and get a mimic.

[@KyleBevis-u7j]

For this price the kit should come with a Macbook and lifetime access to EZDrummer, AddictiveDrums and StevenSlate drums. Ridiculous!

[@daddybigbean5882]

I love how everyone here is complaining about the sounds while listening to demos through there shitty android phone speakers lol

[@bluesiliconedot2190]

And saying “my 20 cents piezo glued to a yogurt bottle sounds better than this”

[@AP02112]

Sounds terrible

[@GerardVos]

Sorry, the colors, could Roland not give it these BORING colors..it could have been more futuristic, like metallic violet or something. Its a friggn VDRUM. i dont buy a VAD706 because i want it to look like my Sonor 3007 skin color. Also i will stick to my TD27 with TD 30 shells. its awesome and looks like a Vdrum.. No need for the 50x - love you Nick!

[@thethomaspatersonexperienc4746]

I swear Nick is the most loveable man on youtube

[@samleaddrop3004]

He is a hell of a drummer. Just right for the Roland Drum TESTs

[@palasssh]

Can we just add another floor tom! Is it Expandable ?

[@grxygxds]

yeah there are 4 auxillary slots for you to add on

[@drfabianchaman]

Plus you have the analog snare, ride and hi hat inputs

[@mb-drums4689]

@@drfabianchaman unfortunalty this is not working if you use the digital pads. I thougt the same with my td27 but when you use the digital pads it disable the analoge snare, ride and probably also the hihats ;)

[@niclavalliedrums8537]

If I’m going to pay $8000 for a drum kit it’s going to be a top end DW acoustic kit and I probably could still get hardware and cymbals.

[@jackaler5973]

And it will make one sound.

[@niclavalliedrums8537]

@@jackaler5973 That maybe so but how many sounds do most drummers actually make with their drum kit that they have they can make a lot more than they realized with a regular acoustic kit.

[@bluesiliconedot2190]

Happy neighbors

[@FountainCitySoundscape]

I feel like electric drum makers invest way too much into the aesthetics of these kits just to turn around and put the same fake ass washed out sounds that have been in drums for forever smh we need more natural sounds man smh

[@kell7689]

Kinda sounds like Roland hasn't changed their sample sounds for the last 15 years but the kit look great!

[@tasarasforever]

They aren’t using samples but MIDI

[@gabialex24]

@@tasarasforeverwhat does the Midi trigger if not samples?

[@8487bigboi]

That don’t sound like $8000 sounds more like a $400 kit. Those sounds need a lot more work. Pearl and Alesis electric kit sounds sound a whole lot better plus their cheaper. Roland work on those sounds. They don’t represent that price range well.

[@DavidOakesMusic]

I can do that side stick / rim shot thing on my £450 Tourtech e-kit. IF you tap the rim its a side stick. If you whack it - its a rim shot.

[@bagelq2028]

8:36 8,000$ best quality triggering sounds.. Crazy how Alesis is absolutely destroying Roland in the sound and triggering department.

[@Bufinstuff]

Thanks for showing us that Steve Gadd lick (50 Ways To Leave Your Lover). lolz

[@DrummerGrrrl]

I have never been that enthused about the sounds in Roland modules...until today! WOW!!! Too bad this drum kit costs more than I could ever afford, unless I win the lottery or something.

[@baldurcassie]

I mean if they were more like $6000 I’d consider buying them. 😂😂😂

[@Artikulo71]

Wow! Awesome Drums! Awesome Drummer!🤘🥁🤘

[@kevvyd2128]

Another ridiculously overpriced kit by Roland😂 get yourself a strike pro se for like a third of the price

[@bluesiliconedot2190]

And throw it away within 6 months

[@murraywebster1228]

Now this is real ear-opener for limitless possibilities......

[@EscapeEFT]

9k and it doesn't come with a snare stand, high hat stand or kick pedal. 🤦‍♂

[@photographerjonathan]

Really nice set but this video is two years old. anything new from Roland ? or a new kit that is about to come. ( I am still hoping that Roland is going to up their game with the sound of their built in kits ) why should people who spend this kind of money on a kit still have to get external sounds in order to have a killer realistic sounding kit.

[@steffenpanning2776]

unfortunately, these drums, espacially the bassdrum is very noisy. Just not usable if you want to practice in an apartment.

[@michaeldp4554]

Beautiful but sounds like trash as per usual with Roland- requires superior drummer 3 or similar program.

[@gatlinproduction]

Is there a video for setting up and recording internal inside of the module Midi And audio and then opening or transferring over to computer for Mixing? This I would like to see. Please, Because on the TD50 module I had to Mix songs sitting on my Drum set. Not Cool. So I had to pull the TD50 Module off the drum set and bring it over to my Mixing desk via Midi just to swipe out different Instruments to better fit my song track. I really wanted to use my sound design that’s in Roland TD 50 and NOT USE DRUM SOFTWARE.

[@gatlinproduction]

Everyone is complaining about price really! Owner of TD50 Plus I’m getting this pair. Hint Check the price of your TV Cable Bill and trade it in.

[@joellouisfire]

🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫

[@XeRo333]

If you can add more drums than just the 5 pieces and could get more sizes of the drums. Like 12", 13", 16", & 18" inch toms, 22" to 24" bass drums. Then I'd be even more sold. No more time with tuning drums all the time, but look acoustic and can sound acoustic! That's a plus. My church just got this kit in black and I helped set it up and it is a nice kit. I just would like to add more toms and in more than the stock sizes.

[@MrFilimn]

Oh man that machine gunning, it's just even worst on this model,

[@SasaPetkovic_Bubnjar_Drummer]

Is there a KZbin video which gives the answer to the question why major e-drum manufacturers don't start using samples from VST sound libraries which feel 1000000 times more human?

[@StillBornSweatShop]

I will never understand why drum kits DONT come with all the necessary equipment, like seriously £6,000 AND MORE. Thanks a lot

[@gubernational57]

So you pay thousands of dollars for a machine gun affect on your toms?

[@DropFive0]

It's pretty interesting that for $8,000 you don't get a kit you can actually play. This company must be the Apple of drums; everything sold separately.

[@millardj.curtis6692]

What about the Amish drummers?

[@Johnbobon]

😄

[@bluesiliconedot2190]

The play Ludwig

[@makdrumz]

Honestly do not like any of the sets (i am mostly an e-drummer lately). Even the entry level free set from steve slate is so much more realisty sounding than any of these. Yamaha's entry product e-drums sets have some nice real sounding one's. I find no reason whatsover to spend this amount of money when you can get 800-1000 to get a nice mesh set from roland and pick a free daw with a free sampler.

[@nope5531]

Seriously considering selling my mimic and td 11 kit, should net 2k, then getting this 48 month 0% financing. ATV adrums would be 3600 but cash, plus sweetwater has 2 yr warranty, 6k total with pearl mimic. With an extra floor tom bundle I might do it in 2 years lol. I already have superior drummer, let's see if I don't still suck in 2 yrs

[@KeithMarvK]

I'll take a red one.

[@rogerwhitsettdrummer2922]

Me too! I’ve already placed my order!!

[@bluesiliconedot2190]

Still 6 months away, June 2022…

[@barrycomer3688]

Let’s see what Alan from VExpressions does with this. He will have this sounding like it should from the factory. Roland should hire him and stop putting out crappy sounding kits.

[@CerxFouquet9]

Tried out in a store - what bugged me the most was the lag in cymbal choking. Unlike the real cymbals, it doesn't die instantly, but fades away very quickly. I reckon it's trying to reenact the slight resonance that stays even with real cymbals, but it felt a bit exaggerated and weird to me. Aside from that, it's great

[@andramorrell]

I can wait for the day that we can take the Plexi glass down, remove the drum enclosures and control all sound in the room through the FOH! - sound engineers, production directors

[@DisjointedConversations]

Another great drum video from Nick and Sweetwater.

[@donovanwallace462]

I'm in the market for a home kit. My thinking was, you get all the sounds/editing/sampled sounds with this kit for a music room built in my garage which allows you to bang away later into the night or get a higher end Ludwig Maple kit with 24" kick. Do you think the VAD706 could pull off the live drum sound for recording? I have the Shure 4 piece drum mics and a few others to try to get a decent (demo) recording. Which is best for home situation?

[@aaronthompson24]

That hit hat work at 0:50 was nice. 😮

[@AntonShields]

I just hate being a guinea pig because I just bought the VAD503 last year and the V13 hi hat And don’t give me wrong it’s the most amazing thing that has improved my drumming live and just practice at home but, oh well be happy what you got right. I hope Roland at least gives us the ability to download some of the new acoustic VST‘s they put in the TD-50x. I’m gonna be really upset if they don’t because I’m not spending money on a whole new kit when I should be able to get download plug-ins.

[@anthonyn1312]

Sound like from now on you are not gonna say depth by diameter, and you will say diameter by depth

[@mxfxdlg]

WTF!??? If I wanted to lug around a set of full sized drum shells, I’d buy a real DW or Tama kit! The whole point of electronic drums was to “emulate” a real kit, while remaining minimal in size and mass. That whole kit should fit in ONE large trap case. Cymbals stacked on pads. Come on Roland, get it together, man!

[@kirankhan5525]

Ah.. They have smaller more portable kits, ya know? Some people want the real experience without the real noise issues.

[@Isaacvorobyov]

I’m not sure what to get this,or the Roland td50kv2 what do you guys think?

[@marco_prolo]

I have the TD50 and bought the X upgrade. You can get the TD50x sounding better than in this demo. But it's shocking how Roland went from "Oh look we've got rid of machine gunning" on the TD50 presentation back then, to "Oh well, let's do not focus on round-robin samples. That's just a VST gimmick no one will ever need on a flasgship module".

[@brendanmcg8566]

Help, this video didn't put 11K into my bank account!

[@gregwilliams2764]

Very nice new 50 I love the whole. I have about a tb of superior drummer Adonis that would be awesome through this kit

[@aadiyogi131]

Superb..than also can't match the sound with acoustic.

[@brosefmcman8264]

Ridiculous question!! From 0. 46sec - 0.56 sec mark what do you call the technique or maneuver you are playing? I love it!

[@Roberto-tm8fk]

the acoustic sounds are terrible