Audio Front Wireless Triggers

[MisterE]

Assume one has to turn each trigger on before playing and off after. Like with versatrigger. Or am I wrong?

VersaTrigger and DWe triggers turn themselves on. As soon as a note is played on one of the pads it wakes up the hub.

[nemo]

Ok, thanks. I saw the on/off switch in the manual and on pictures thus my mistake.

[Dxtrinc]

I even wondered if Rob would do a Kickstarter or something to find it?

I'm just shooting random thoughts out lol

The technology exists to accomplish it I just don't unless how hard it would be to get functioning.

If I was DW or Roland I'd be selling a wireless triggers system set. They'd make a fortune. And could tap into the entire electronic drums industry not just the wealthy few

[Andrewmsb]

Versatrigger were amazing. I had no latency issues at all. I had 3 sets of these I absolutely loved them. I sold them because there were not any updates for the interface, which in fact was similar to the EDRUMin. Very easy to use and very inexpensive. I remember them being around $45 USD. I only had issues when they had to add some type of midiox program online with windows10 then it became a bit clunky to me. But they worked perfectly!

[lalo]

I had a set of versatriggers too, they worked great with my roland pads, I got real rimshots when hitting head+rim at the same time, no latency, but kept waiting for cymbal triggers, I emailed Paul back and forth and he kept pushing their release so in the end I sold them too because I needed a roland module anyway for the cymbals.

[Andrewmsb]

I had a set of versatriggers too, they worked great with my roland pads, I got real rimshots when hitting head+rim at the same time, no latency, but kept waiting for cymbal triggers, I emailed Paul back and forth and he kept pushing their release so in the end I sold them too because I needed a roland module anyway for the cymbals.

They had input boxes you could plug in to for cymbals. They had 3 zone support. I used them with my stealth cymbals and Yamaha hats, PCY 135 and 155 flawlessly. Instead of a trigger it was a 35mm cable that went to the trigger box to a 1/4 trs into the cymbal pad. I wish they were never sold to DW. But I am happy for Paul.

[lalo]

Really? I don't even remember, it was a long time ago, 10 years ago maybe.

[MisterE]

Really? I don't even remember, it was a long time ago, 10 years ago maybe.

Yes, I owned a couple of those and gave them away not too long before DWe came out, thinking they'd no longer be supported and I headed down other paths.

[Dxtrinc]

Just giving this a bump in hopes that Rob may have a comment

[ELEGENT DRUM]

The issue with Bluetooth is not the amount of data, but the latency.

It's great for sending music around, where you don't notice the latency, but not for playing drums in real time.

i'm sure you know this already Perceval, but for people unfamiliar, the latency with midi over bluetooth is much much less than audio over bluetooth

How low? To put this in context. If I don't hear the sound within 4.5 ms of hitting the drum, that's a no go for me. Triggers need up to 3ms to decide how loud they were hit. My sound card has outbound lag of 1ms. Can wireless MIDI take less than 0.5ms?
Note: MADI FX w/ Ferrofish A32 at 96K and 64 buffer.