Roland V-drums - Page 20

The World’s Finest Electronic Drums and Percussion. PERIOD.
18
this is ne. V-Drums sound GREAT right out of the box, because the factory drum kits are
programmed by some of the best professional drummers in the business. But even if you
haven’t done any editing, read on to see how COSM makes it simple to create your own custom
set. Remember, you can always retrieve the factory sounds.
Editing COSM drum sounds is very easy and follows the
natural path of the acoustic world “audio chain.”
• Creating a drum including the shell, head, drum size
and more.
• Miking the drum and placing it in a room to create the
“ambient” sound.
• Plugging it into a control room for mixing, compression, EQ and effects.
Let’s take a look at some of the editing subtleties within these three steps in the audio chain.
After choosing a drum we like from the
drum module’s sounds, we enter Edit
mode and the fun begins. You can choose
from wood, steel, or brass shells for the
snare (editing parameter to the TD-20
and TD-12). Keep in mind these aren’t
three different samples, rather the sound’s
“model” is altered to match how this shell
change would sound in the acoustic world.
Accomplished, professional drummers worked
with design engineers to make sure all the
sounds are as true to life as possible. Some of the
additional parameters that can be changed when
designing a drum kit on the TD-20 & TD-12 are
“shell depth”, “tuning”, “head type” (clear, coated
or pinstripe), “snare tension” on & off (multiple
tightness on the TD-20), and “mufing”. Mufing
is one of my favorites. Roland has built in an
COSM
®
Explained (con’t)