REAC output for Roland V-Drums

[samchurchill]

Hi all,

Am I the only one wondering why Roland haven't made a V-Drums set (or at least just the processor module) that has a REAC connection? It seems a bit odd to me if they haven't thought about it as it would be great to eliminate the multiple cables going from the processor module to the REAC stage box.

I realise it would be a niche product but both systems are pretty popular now. Can any of you think of any hurdles to this working that I'm missing?

Cheers,

Sam

[buswheel]

Considering we are looking at both a new board and V-drums at the moment this would be great.
I would envisage something which combines a Roland TD-12/20, M-48 and a S-0808.
While I can see it being possible, the main promlem would be if Roland would want to miss out on selling these 3 systems seperately.

[FLZapped]

Well, for one thing, the two products are made by different groups. However, none of Roland's musical instruments have a REAC output. It would add quit a bit of cost to the product to add the necessary protocol encoder into them for a minority of users. REAC is also a high capacity system, why would you want to waste a high capacity port it on a single device?

[[XAP]Bob]

Of course a drum kit isn't one instrument - it's a number of instruments - easily up to 8 (i.e. comparable with an 080

[samchurchill]

Yes, I must say that every time I've mixed a band with a single channel output electronic drum kit I've felt that, although the sample for each individual drum/cymbal sounds great, I've really struggled to get the mix that I want FOH. I guess this is because it's being altered by the drummer whilst they're listening through their headphones/monitor and it takes ages to communicate with them everything that the FOH engineer would normally do instinctively by twiddling a few knobs.

Therefore, I've made it clear that, if we do ever go down the electronic kit route, it has to be one with separate outputs for each element, so that it can be mixed properly for FOH e.g. Roland TD-30.

On further consideration (my original post was 6 months ago), a good compromise would be a D-sub output socket on the back of the drum processing unit which could be plugged into an S-1608 in place of some of the XLR inputs. This way you still get my ideal of a single cable whilst not, as FLZapped says, using a high capacity system for only 8 input channels (because you can still use the other 8 inputs and 8 outputs on the S-160. However, this still means the signal is converted from digital to analogue to digital before getting to the desk, which seems pointless.

Sam

[pdc]

A Dante card on every electronic instrument would be cool. Network the whole darn band. Too bad MLan did not take off for Yamaha.