Best drum programming stuff/ Mac/pwrbook/ Kat... battery/Stylus/Kontact etc.

[cajonezzz]

I've been programming and triggering for years...been thru a lot of mutations...Akai's Mpc's, forat, ddrum blah blah blah.

It's time to revamp again, and I thought I'd throw it out to you gearheads that do a lot of drum programming.

first off, I'm totally impressed with BFD, and DKfH. Very cool tools, but, being a drummer, that know's drummers, with a studio to record drums.... those two programs don't really fit my needs. I would rarely record them instead of the real thing. Amazing stuff tho.

I'm more interested in "efx" and being able to access yearrs of Akai/roland/ and custom sample library.

I need velocity cross switching.
I need as low a latency as possible, to make programing from a drumkat more "fun".

I want to be able to load multiple library's with minimal fuss.

so far, after spending WAY too much time in the local shop with all the stuff I've come upon this mix:
Battery for the primary playback medium
Kontact to fill in the gaps for tuned Perc and orchestral mock ups that I have to do from time to time.
Stylus, to use in conjunction with Recycle, to fuk up my exsisting real drum and perc tracks and to create interesting textures.

All of these must live comfortably in Ableton Live, and Pro Tools M-powered. On a G4 1.25 with a M- audio firewire 1814 interface (as opposed to my mbox, which I find painfully slow as an input device from the KAT)

Am I barking up the wrong tree? Any programs out there I should be checking out?

I'm also VERY interested in: http://www.museresearch.com/ box instead of using the laptop. I've got a bud on some supersize tours just raving about this box...
claims the latency is practically zilch.
I found one at west LA music but there was not a knucklehead salesman in the house that could turn it on let alone demo it. The "pro store" ...sheesh.
I'm not giving up on it yet.... anyone familiar with it or more importantly ACUTUALLY USING ONE?

thanks for any input GS'rs!!!

craig

[studiogeek]

Hi,
I use My V-drums or an Edirol PCR-50 to trigger Battery/EXS24/Kontakt in Logic 7 (various audio interfaces). It works fairly well... But the V-drums triggering my Roland 3080 (with dynamic drum card) feels much tighter. I often monitor the V-Drums audio or 3080 audio while playing (tracking) than route recorded midi to the plugins.
Sometimes I love it...... sometimes it makes me long for my acoustic kit...
SG

[cajonezzz]

awe come on.... there's got to be more than that....
maybe I should move this to another area?

[studiogeek]

...... What im sayin is.
To my knowledge, that game has not changed (improved)much in years. The top electronic drummers are still using old school midi rigs (perhaps with newer modules), sometimes embellished by laptop rigs with some complaints with regard to feel (latency), even with the best interfaces, computers are still better suited for keyboards or loop triggering.
As processors get faster and buffers get smaller it can only get better.
If you find somthing better please let us know..... I'd LOVE to be wrong on this.
SG