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Introduction
Overview
DrumIt Five is an open sound drum unit featuring 10 dual function
trigger inputs, 15 independent drum channels, 8 audio outputs and
4 GB Flash memory for sound storage. Together with the DrumIt
Five pads and rack stand, it becomes a complete electronic drum
system giving the user an experience which is very close to playing
an acoustic drum kit.
Flexibility
DrumIt Five offers 100 user configurable drum kits with sounds from
an ever expanding sound library. With the PC / Mac based DrumIt
Five Editor one can configure kits and create custom sounds. When
the DrumIt Five unit is connected by USB to a host computer it
appears as an external storage device (no driver install needed).
Sounds can then be copied to the DrumIt Five unit just as easy as
one would copy files to an external hard disk.
Triggers
The fast and flexible trigger interface offers low latency and wide
dynamic range. Additionally, depending on the type of pad, different
sound types can be triggered from different zones on the pad. For
example, all snare and tom pads have head and rim triggers and all
cymbal pads have cup, bow and edge triggers.
Sounds
Most DrumIt sounds are recorded with several microphones at
different distances and then mixed down to stereo, some with room
ambience, others rather dry. Sounds can consist of upto 128 layers
so the gradual change between soft and hard hits can be faithfully
reproduced. Any drum channel can be loaded with any sound,
however, some sounds have multiple sound types which can only be
played when the channel is configured with an appropriate pad.
Each drum sound is stored in a separate file and they are all
organized in folders to make it convenient to select them.
