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Electronic Drum Kit Shops
The electronic drum kit works using a very different principle than the more common acoustic version. The basis of the electronic drum kit of the pad that is struck by a stick, when the impact occurs a voltage change is triggered in the piezoelectric transducer in the electronic drum kit. These signals are then transmitted to a central processing unit which converts them into digital simulated waveforms which produce the correct percussive sound from the electronic drum kit. Newer versions with more powerful processers have trigger inputs for more than two cymbals, a kick, up to four toms, a dual zone snare and a hi-hat. The electronic drum kit can also simulate using a foot controller for the kick, double kick and hi hat if required.
The advantage of the electronic drum kit is that like the keyboard any sound can be assigned to any given pad, which gives the drummer completely unlimited potential for configuring as many different sounding drum kits as they require that can be swapped instantly by simply loading a new file on the electronic drum kit. Some see this as a huge advantage over the standard kits as it allows the user to simply have different setups for jazz, rock, and other styles of music and swap through them without changing drums. There have been a number of very recent innovations in the field of the electronic drum kit including 24 bit sampling for better sound quality, positional sensing so the CPU detects where on the pad was hit and varies the sound accordingly, multiple triggers allowing for various impact zones including the rim of the toms and snares, and most importantly expansion slots and MIDI connections for upgrading the samples as new ones are released for the electronic kit.
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