Wanna play Rock Band or Guitar Hero on your Drumset? Omega GM 1 is a trigger system that fits mostly every drumset and connect your drums and cymbals to the console. You can also buy it with in a bundle with a Pearl Rythm Traveller Drumset.
* Hi/Lo sensitivity mode switch: Allows mesh head [...]
Audacity is one o out best friends. A free audio editor for recording, slicing, and mixing audio. good for teaching, playing, transcribing all stuff connected to be a musician.
There’s a new release Audacity 1.3.8 (Beta). And this is a good news.
Lilypond is probably the best free music notator and can face commercial monsters like Finale and Sibelius.
Lilypond is a code-driven editor and can generate PDF, PostScript, SVG, PNG and Midi file simply writing the code in a text editor. If you’re not code-minded, anyway you can use some editors and GUI for Lilypond
After a [...]
Update (8/29). I’ve took a cheaper way: a Pearl Bd-10 pad for bass drum and a couple of Vic Firth Pad. That’s enough, for now. And, then, take a look a this home made kit
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I love practice pads and, more, practice kits. For a drummer are the Silent Way To The Heaven’s Practice. My [...]
Looking for audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps? The Freesound Project is the right place to go. All stuff is released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License and a vital community of musicians, artistis and deejays make the site a ‘must partecipate’.
Looking for a good ‘how to’ for Redrum (the built in Reason’s drum machine) ? Here’s a free lesson by Berklee that show how to manage Redrum as a sampler, with a video demo and interactive materials.
UPDATED – 6/26: here comes the price
Sometimes is a good idea to click on a banner. Fortunately i did it on the Modern drummer’s site and i was teleported to a Roland amazing product: the RMP-12 : Marchin percussion. Take a look at the videos. A rythm coach ready for the stage, powerful but [...]
Good news, as Christian Mondrup annunced by email, archive is back online at http://icking-music-archive.org/. Was ‘only’ a dns matter.
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Previously, on this post….
WIMA, Werner Icking Music Archive, a great collection of free downloadable classical sheets, is not online anymore at his primary url http://icking-music-archive.org/. Seems a lot of people is coming on Karma Drums looking [...]
One of the best music notation software, good for drums and drumline scores writing, too: Lilypond, with is ascii interface, is definitely a low-carbon software. And it’s free. And it’s complicated, and fascinating. A real good text editor, with pdf preview, tools for macro and template writing, simple parser and other good features is LilypondTool. [...]