Is this the end of lugging heavy, large drums up narrow stairs?
Aerodrums is the all new quiet and portable alternative to an electronic drum kit – its an air-drumming instrument. It runs on your computer and understands your drumming intent by watching you drum through a high speed camera. Aerodrums costs £129. You can point Aerodrums to your own sample collections to create new drums or cymbals to include in your drum kits. Aerodrums can also output MIDI notes as you drum, enabling you to trigger any MIDI compatible sampler (e.g. VST instruments such as Toontrack’s Superior Drummer), as well as record what you drum straight into a Digital Audio Workstation.
Requirements:
You may also be interested in downloading Aered, our sheet music editor designed specifically for drummers.
Windows or Mac computer from 2009 or later. Aerodrums is compatible with Windows Vista, 7 and 8 and Mac OS X 10.6 and up.
Sony Playstation 3 Eye camera (not included, currently retails for £7 on Amazon).
One time internet access to download the software and samples (873 MB for Windows PC, 898 MB for Mac).
Check our FAQ for answers to common questions.
Limitations: Aerodrums cannot be used to drum outdoors in daylight. Aerodrums uses a light that can seem very bright in low light environments, paper sunglasses are included to protect your eyes when needed.
Expressiveness, realism and extensibility.
Aerodrums uses a subset of the Natural Drum Kit sample library, providing very high quality sound and expressiveness on par with a real drum kit.
For example, Aerodrums supports 16 different levels of openness for the hi-hats and uses as many as 58 different sound samples for a given openness level, per hand. Aerodrums uses different samples for the dominant and non-dominant hand.
Here is a detailed list of the drums, cymbals and percussion that are sampled in the subset of the Natural Drum Kit library that Aerodrums uses:
To read news about Aerodrums, visit the blog section of this site. Among other things, you will learn about upcoming features and get more detail about Aerodrums and how it is used.
Snares: Yamaha Peter Erskine Signature Model, 10 x 4 and Pearl Masters “All Maple”, 12 x 7.
Kick drums: Gretsch USA Maple, 20 x 16 and Gretsch USA Maple, 14 x 11 floor tom, positioned and played as a kick.
Hi-hats: UFIP 13″ “Bionic Series”
Splashes: UFIP 8″ and 12″ “Natural Series” splashes.
Crashes: UFIP 15″ and 18″ “Natural Series” crashes.
China: Zildjian 19″ “K Series”.
Ride: UFIP 20″ “Natural Series”.
Toms: Gretsch USA Maple 8″, 10″, 12″, 14″, 16″, one set of samples tuned for a bop sound and another set for a rock sound
Cowbell: Meinl 8” “Original Realplayer” steelbell
Tambourine