Push this button will engage a click count-off and record the next few bars of your playing which can then be played back straight away.Īt any level, recording your own playing is such an essential tool for improvement.
Read More > Is the Roland TD11 Drum Kit Really Worth It?Īnother great learning feature of this kit is the ‘Record’ button. This is a fun and effective way of improving your timing and overall accuracy.
It tells you whether you’re ahead or behind the beat in realtime too, using a diagram on the screen. The time check is a great feature that records you playing a few bars of groove and gives you an accuracy score at the end. The metronome is easy to use and has a lot of functionality built-in, including subdivision changes and different click sounds. The coaching functions on this module are excellent and are an invaluable tool for beginners picking up the sticks for the first time. Just like the Alesis, the Td1 has a ‘Mix In’ port which allows you to plug in a smartphone, computer or mp3 player so you can play along to your favorite tunes whilst hearing your drums at the same time.very useful for practicing songs or playing along to online educational content on your laptop. The Alesis has a whopping 40 preset kits and 60 play-along tracks, which is considerably more than the Td1. However, compared to Roland’s nearest rival, the Alesis Nitro Mesh Kit, the unit will feel pretty basic. Great if you want just a quick jam and they will suit pretty much any playing style. The included play-along jam tracks are a nice touch, however as expected they tend to sit on the cheesier side of the spectrum! There are only 15 preset drum kits included, however, they do a good job of covering a wide range of musical genres, and typically with Roland, they sound good overall (more on that later). It has a satisfyingly solid construction with a modest array of rubber ‘push’ type buttons to select the various kits, songs, metronome, coaching, and volume settings.Īs with most Roland v-drums, the unit feels well constructed and incredibly easy to use (which is great for kids). Starting with the build quality and design of the module, the Td-1 is incredibly basic in its layout and design. Onboard Coach Functions (Time and tempo check).Let’s take a look at the key features of the Roland Td-1kv drum module: It houses all the pre-recorded (sampled) drum and percussion sounds, as well as being the hub for connecting to computers, headphones, and other external devices. The brain is the unit that all the individual drum and cymbals pads plug in to.
Select that and turn the monitor on to allow you to hear the sound on your headphones.The most important part of any electronic drum kit is the drum module (also called sound module or brain). There is an icon on the upper left hand of the screen that looks like a jack or a plug. To record the drums, I created a track with the Guitar Amp as an input, selected a clean amp as the amp of choice (you can add effects if you like, but I just wanted as true a sound as I could get).
This allowed me to set up a bass and one other instrument playing on the iPad as I recorded my drums. There is a small female end on the iRig for a headphone to plug into. You then connect the device to the headphone jack on the iPad. Select a clean amp for input and turn monitor on, and you can hear whatever you're piping in via the iRig along with the other stuff you have already recorded.įor those who do not know what the iRig is, it allows you to connect a 1/4" jack from a guitar or other device at the other end, as if the iRig were an amp. It also works in GarageBand if you select guitar amp as an instrument.
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