Glad to see I'm not alone. Normal Cajon doesn't have enough subtlety in my ukulele group so this is superb and a greater range of sounds to spice things up. I'm also using the Roland PDS-20 stand at it's lowest with the unit turned upside down like your good self. It works great with the hands despite the fact that Roland FAQs say you can't use it for hand drumming but music is all about breaking the rules 🤘
I appreciate this video. I want to get some kind of multipad for drumming with my hands. It doesn't need to have great onboard sounds because I will use it as a midi controller, but it does need to be responsive. I've considered a bop pad. I played an Alesis Strike in a music store and it froze up (apparently that is a known glitch). There really aren't a lot of videos like this, even for units like the Yamaha Percussion Pad DTX that claims it has a mode for hand playing. And that thing is like 10 years old!
I'm playing real cajon and own former top-models from Sela and Pepote. This doesn't really sound authentic to me, but if it's okay for you, enjoy. I doubt a digital instrument can reproduce a cajon properly (HPD-20 can't as well) while drums and other percussion are more suitable for it, even playing acoustic instruments is always unique in sound and can't be simulated properly. I'm here because I've ordered the SPD SX Pro today while owning the SPD 30 and HPD 20 and (dust collecting) HPD 15, but I bought it mostly for drums. Good to see that the Pro is sensible enough for playing with fingers. The SPD 30 can't do that and curious if it is still better as a drum-kit than this device, which I doubt and the reason I've ordered the Pro now to compare. The SPD 30 does one trick to sound slightly more "natural", that is in fact very annoying: It changes velocity even if you do the exact same hit, depending which position of the pad you hit. Only the center gives full velocity. So this "feature" makes it sound more dynamic, but it's difficult to play tight with it even if you do. And even as a tabla-player I never got really warm with the HPD 20 as well. The presets are absolute crap like made by a 5-year-old, which seems like the corporate identity of Roland, and the 6 small pads are just too small to play them properly. The SX Pro pad-size and position makes more sense for percussion-techniques if they can be tuned as sensible as the HPD-20. I doubt that as well and the sensitivity of the HPD-20 is the reason, why it's still +25% more than the SX Pro today. You want a true electronic finger-drum, there are just no alternatives.
Hiya mate, interesting stuff yeah. I think you're right, it won't sound fully authentic but I do a tonne of duo gigs where I only want a cajon type sound for a few songs and need other sounds for the rest so this was a fun little experiment 🙂 I'd love to try the hand perc one but I just don't have enough of that sort of work to justify the budget 😅
@@Electronicdrumtips Instead of the drum-chair you could use a Cajon with a microphone inside, just thinking loud. "Doesn't sound authentic" was actually meant to be polite😁 I don't play 'real' drums, but a Cajon-set with 3 cymbals and foot-shells/shakers. I play the cymbals with brush-rods, brush or hand and haven't performed with this setup yet, but sounds really like a nice Jazz-kit which isn't too loud to play it at home. The e-drum-stuff is more meant after 9 pm and since two days I have replaced my Roland KT-10 with an SPD One Kick. One tip: The "Adoro SSX Silent Sticks" are not only way less loud than drumsticks, but also doesn't wear out the pads or damage the casing if you miss a pad. I'm using them since a year with my SPD 30 and still looks like I just bought it.
Glad to see I'm not alone. Normal Cajon doesn't have enough subtlety in my ukulele group so this is superb and a greater range of sounds to spice things up. I'm also using the Roland PDS-20 stand at it's lowest with the unit turned upside down like your good self. It works great with the hands despite the fact that Roland FAQs say you can't use it for hand drumming but music is all about breaking the rules 🤘
Ah man that's so cool, glad I'm not alone too! Yeah it is about breaking the rules for sure, thanks so much for watching 🙂🥁
Super!!!❤
Thanks so much!
I appreciate this video. I want to get some kind of multipad for drumming with my hands. It doesn't need to have great onboard sounds because I will use it as a midi controller, but it does need to be responsive. I've considered a bop pad. I played an Alesis Strike in a music store and it froze up (apparently that is a known glitch). There really aren't a lot of videos like this, even for units like the Yamaha Percussion Pad DTX that claims it has a mode for hand playing. And that thing is like 10 years old!
I'm playing real cajon and own former top-models from Sela and Pepote. This doesn't really sound authentic to me, but if it's okay for you, enjoy. I doubt a digital instrument can reproduce a cajon properly (HPD-20 can't as well) while drums and other percussion are more suitable for it, even playing acoustic instruments is always unique in sound and can't be simulated properly.
I'm here because I've ordered the SPD SX Pro today while owning the SPD 30 and HPD 20 and (dust collecting) HPD 15, but I bought it mostly for drums. Good to see that the Pro is sensible enough for playing with fingers. The SPD 30 can't do that and curious if it is still better as a drum-kit than this device, which I doubt and the reason I've ordered the Pro now to compare. The SPD 30 does one trick to sound slightly more "natural", that is in fact very annoying: It changes velocity even if you do the exact same hit, depending which position of the pad you hit. Only the center gives full velocity. So this "feature" makes it sound more dynamic, but it's difficult to play tight with it even if you do. And even as a tabla-player I never got really warm with the HPD 20 as well. The presets are absolute crap like made by a 5-year-old, which seems like the corporate identity of Roland, and the 6 small pads are just too small to play them properly. The SX Pro pad-size and position makes more sense for percussion-techniques if they can be tuned as sensible as the HPD-20. I doubt that as well and the sensitivity of the HPD-20 is the reason, why it's still +25% more than the SX Pro today. You want a true electronic finger-drum, there are just no alternatives.
Hiya mate, interesting stuff yeah. I think you're right, it won't sound fully authentic but I do a tonne of duo gigs where I only want a cajon type sound for a few songs and need other sounds for the rest so this was a fun little experiment 🙂 I'd love to try the hand perc one but I just don't have enough of that sort of work to justify the budget 😅
@@Electronicdrumtips Instead of the drum-chair you could use a Cajon with a microphone inside, just thinking loud. "Doesn't sound authentic" was actually meant to be polite😁 I don't play 'real' drums, but a Cajon-set with 3 cymbals and foot-shells/shakers. I play the cymbals with brush-rods, brush or hand and haven't performed with this setup yet, but sounds really like a nice Jazz-kit which isn't too loud to play it at home. The e-drum-stuff is more meant after 9 pm and since two days I have replaced my Roland KT-10 with an SPD One Kick. One tip: The "Adoro SSX Silent Sticks" are not only way less loud than drumsticks, but also doesn't wear out the pads or damage the casing if you miss a pad. I'm using them since a year with my SPD 30 and still looks like I just bought it.
Do you have to use more strength or pressure when playing with hands to trigger the sounds?
Hiya, to be honest I found it pretty responsive, you can always change the sensitivity settings if you need to 🙂
Can we adjust and change loop tempo in this pad
nice
Thanks mate 🙂
Well..👍
thanks mate! 😊
so, basically... just playing a roland pad ..
In a sense, yes 😅
Easier to play a true cajon