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Best pure finger drumming pads - 4x4 grid, no frills.
Hello hivemind.
I have a quite lovely akai mpd device with knobs and pads and a step sequencer and it is quite good.
However, I’m looking for a simple 4x4 grid for finger drumming. My only real requirements are small footprint, ideally powered just off the iPad, and being able to set the notes assigned to the pad (computer software setting is perfectly fine, rather than on the device). And good pads, obviously.
Any suggestions? Something like the akai mpd with the knobs and pads is too big, and the akai with everything in rows of 8 violates my 4x4 rule.
Tell me your thoughts
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Here is an article on finger drumming that i really appreciated:
http://djtechtools.com/2012/09/03/how-to-practice-finger-drumming-and-controllerism/
The midifighter cue master/ beatmasher are pretty fantastic for what you request. I love mine even though my fingerdrumming skills are abysmal. Not sure if you can reassign the buttons though. I'm currently half way across the world from my unit so won't be able to tell you till mid October.
If you don't care for Akai's offerings, then IKM's iRig Pads would be my next suggestion.
This is a couple of years old, but still good information here to consider.
http://www.xpresspads.com/the-best-drum-machines-for-finger-drumming
Got into a Mad Zach video wormhole because of this. He's good.
I love Akai stuff and have the fancy mpd with the step sequencer and such, but they don’t make anything like what I have in mind.
The mpd 218 is nice and a used one may be the most cost effective. I already have a mpd232. I may start by rolling my own with a midi control creator program first.
Yeah Jakob haq uses that irig thing. Think it's cheap too
iRig is more expensive than an mpd 218, which is a killer piece of kit. I bought it then exchanged for a mpd 232. If there were some kind of btle device thaf would be super cool. My best bet will probably be to cobble one up in midi designer pro/lemur/touchosc
Yeah I’d go for the MPD218. (Or rather I am planning to get one)
Very good price, good quality pads, endless encoder knobs. Hard to beat.
That xpresspads site looks like a very tempting rabbit hole to fall into... Anyone taken the course?
I have the MPD218. Killer quality MPC pads. Doesn't seem to get charged by the iPad, at least when I tried it - but still the best option by far I would say. Can't imagine the iRig thing would have pads that feel as good to play.
Mpc fly 30 can be found cheap on eBay.
I’ll probably make it in touchosc or lemur or something. AFAIK, midi designer has the best btle implementation, better than the former two, but it also has the ugliest interface.
Why in the name of everything good in the world does no vendor have a Bluetooth pad controller on the market? I would think people would be all over it.
Akai actually does, but it’s arranged in 2 rows of 8 buttons