When playing with the built-in songs, the V-Drums Tutor allows you to change the tempo, or practice with a specific region repeatedly. The game screen also provides a numerical score of your performance. This visual feature automatically helps you to progress because you can see your mistakes. The V-Drums Tutor is able to evaluate the timing of your playing, and can display “O” and “X” symbols on the drum notation screen to show how you’re doing, timing wise. In the “game screen,” blocks scroll downward at the timing of each pad played, so even if you can not read drum notation, you’ll find a practice challenge as if you were simply playing a game. Learning with visuals! There are two types of screens - “Notation” and “Game.” The “notation screen” shows a ball that bounces with the tempo, as well as the graphics of each pad that is hit, which will light up at the timing when played. )Ī good thing is that every function has a keyboard shortcut, so if you can get a keyboard near the throne and can see the screen, you're all set.Listen to playing examples! The V-Drums Tutor contains built-in songs covering a wide range of styles, from basic exercise patterns to songs with backing tracks.ěeginners can start practicing immediately as the V-Drums Tutor respects all musical levels. (For me it's quite all right that the screen can't be resized - my projector 'only' outputs 1280x720 anyway. No advanced features the window size can't be changed, there are no drum sounds from hitting the pads (the drum sounds are played from the drum kit itself) - but it's not that expensive either. You can change the tempo and volume and use a metronome - and that's just about it.

The program is very simple - there are tunes to play along, patterns to practice (the single stroke rudiments, double stroke, triple stroke and paradiddles). My functioning Rock Band/DT-1 MIDI mappings: The software is, after all, made for Rolands very cheapest low-end drumset. Though - the pedal support only the chick and not the splash, and only one zone per pad - but that was expected. (The hihat pedal supports open, closed and chick - any heel splashes are ignored.) And my drum kit.Įverything just works: Snare, tom1, tom2, tom3, kick, crash, ride, hihat, hihat pedal open, hihat pedal closed, hihat pedal chick. Oh well - I'm off to play a bit with the software. The default mapping was a bit off - the hi tom head mapped to the mid tom head and vice versa - the rims mapped to the correct heads.īut - I had the same problem with Rock Band, and I had made a kit with specific MIDI mappings for just that, where both the head and rim of the same pad was mapped to the same MIDI note - and when I selected my 'Rock Band' kit, it worked straight out of the box.Īs I had already installed ASIO4ALL, configuring the system was a breeze. Installation went without a hitch on my 64-bit Windows 7 (the license key is case sensitive, though).

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