Roland V-Drums

I became a producer totally by accident. For a while, I was DJing with a live drummer and an early Roland V-Drum module. It never worked out, but I was left with this drum machine and decided to hook it up with the PC we had at home.

Used during the development of *Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock*: "The process of writing, arranging and ultimately recording began in Satriani's home studio, a spaceship-like enclave containing a Pro Tools HD2 system running on an Apple G5, a set of Roland V-Drums, a couple of keyboards and, of course, a whole lot of guitar amps. (...) "From his professionally tuned shuttle, Satriani recorded 16 or so demos, which he would later use during tracking sessions with drummer Jeff Campitelli and bassist Matt Bissonette. Satriani played drums when he was a teenager; he usually records drum patterns with the V-Drums into MIDI, creates a basic rhythm and then works out the guitar tracks. 'He'll basically build up the entire arrangement and then edit those arrangements in Pro Tools,' says [producer John] Cuniberti. 'Once that's done, he has a choice of attempting either finished guitar parts or just using the demo guitars as a representation for later use. In the studio, there is a point where he, or we, decide which guitars we're going to keep from his demo sessions and which guitars we're going to replace.'"

"We also use Roland V Drum midi controllers."

"all instrumentation, including Björk's vocals (as found object) performed entirely on V-drums by Zach Hill"

The electronic sound came from this said set for the song This Is Your Life off of their breakthrough album The Beautiful Letdown, stated in this interview.

> "The V-Drums pads are actually Charli’s." Charli XCX's drummer uses Charli's V-Drums pads

Uploaded a video of him playing the Roland V-Drums on instagram.

INCORRECT - HE USES ROLAND PD 8 PADS

“I mainly use the V Drums for stage,” he says, “but I am almost thinking right now of going back to an old approach, where I would play like I would live in the studio and use that for the basis of my song ideas. In that case, I think I would use my proper live set up. At various times I have use the V Drums a lot over the years. At the moment I am using the Roland MIDI converter (TMC-6), so it doesn’t have to brain with the drum sounds. It converts your hits on the drums to MIDI, then I trigger them from Ableton Live on the computer. It’s pretty fun!”

You can watch it at this video 0:34.

Incorrect sorrrrryyyy

Mashd N Kutcher are shown here utilising the Roland V-Drums in their live setup. They are not using the whole kit at once; only parts of it.

"In 2008, I had an opportunity to purchase Roland V-drums."

Lani is an endorsed Roland artist and uses many of their products. Here, she is pictured using a V-Drum kit.

Tash recently introduced the Roland V-drums to her setup

In 3:38 in this video you can see Marti Fischer using Roland V-Drums. [Secondary Source] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxNWsdShqtY)

"Since I’ve been doing the e-drummer thing for thirty years, I’ve amassed a huge collection of beat boxes, samplers, Wave Drums, plus all the loops and samples, and even several over-priced boat anchors that each still manages to do one special thing that no other box will do. It’s amazing: As useful as the V-Drums, ddrums, BFDs, DFH, Battery, Stylus, and Drumagog all are, I will still at times use an old box like the SDSV or Synare–or even a real drum…that gets processed."

Persing is the founder of Spectrasonics, a company specializing in developing World Class software 'virtual instruments' since 1994. He has produced dozens of the sampling industry's top selling titles and gone on to create the award-winning Omnisphere, Keyscape, Stylus RMX, Trilian, Atmosphere and Trilogy software virtual instruments. Eric's ground-breaking instruments and sound libraries are the best selling and most widely used in the world. Spectrasonics products are in constant use on thousands of major film, television, music, game and multimedia productions. In addition to being the Creative Director of Spectrasonics, Eric was a longtime consultant and the Chief Sound Designer for Roland Corporation Japan from 1984-2005, creating the key sounds for many popular Roland synthesizers, samplers, CD-ROMs, expansion boards, processors and groove devices - from the vintage Jupiter and JX series, to the legendary D-50, D-70, JD-800/990, R8, S-series samplers, JV-880/1080/2080, the Sound Canvas, JP-8000/8080, MC-505/909, The V-Drums, XV-5080, Fantom series, the V-Synth and many more.