Electronic Drums - Arco

Simmons SDS 1000

Drum machine · United Kingdom

The SDS 1000 put the Simmons voice — pitch-swept toms, that hollow snare — into an affordable module driven by pads or MIDI, and carried the sound past the end of the hexagonal kits.
EFNOTE PRO

Electronic drums · Japan

EFNOTE PRO is the top of the range: larger shells, more zones per pad, and a module with the routing and outputs a touring setup needs.
GEWA G9 Pro Kit

Electronic drums · Germany

The G9 Pro kits put the module behind mesh-headed wooden shells and multi-zone cymbals, positioned directly against Roland's and Yamaha's flagships.
Simmons Titan

Electronic drums

The Titan series is the modern Simmons: mesh heads, a conventional rack, and a module with Bluetooth practice features, sharing nothing with the 1980s designs but the name.
ddrum DDTi

Electronic drums

The DDTi converts trigger signals to MIDI over USB, letting a drummer play software instruments from acoustic drums or old pads without a drum module in between.
EFNOTE 5

Electronic drums · Japan

The EFNOTE 5 uses full-size shells, real cymbal shapes, and a hardware set that assembles like an acoustic kit, on the argument that an electronic kit should not have to look like a rack.
2box DrumIt Three

Electronic drums · Sweden

DrumIt Three carries the same open sample architecture in a smaller, cheaper module with fewer inputs, aimed at compact setups and hybrid use.
GEWA G9 Drum Module

Electronic drums · Germany

The G9 module was GEWA's entry into serious electronic drums, with a very large factory library, deep per-instrument editing, and a touchscreen — unusual in a category that mostly still uses knobs and small displays.
ddrum Acoustic Pro Triggers

Electronic drums

ddrum's triggers clamp to an acoustic drum's hoop and pick the head up cleanly enough to drive a module, which is how most hybrid kits are built. They have been the default choice for that job for decades.
ATV aD5

Electronic drums · Japan

The aD5 is sold on its own as well as in kits, and is chosen by drummers replacing another maker's module while keeping the pads.
2box DrumIt Five

Electronic drums · Sweden

The DrumIt Five's module stores user sound libraries in an open format on flash memory, so a drummer can load their own multi-velocity samples rather than waiting for the manufacturer. That openness is the reason the instrument has the following it does.
Pearl e/MERGE

Electronic drums · Japan

e/MERGE puts Pearl's shells, hardware, and hi-hat feel behind an electronic voice engine, aimed at acoustic drummers who want their own kit's ergonomics in an electronic set.

ATV Corporation

ATV was founded in 2014 by engineers from Roland, including figures behind the original V-Drums, and its aDrums kits use wood shells and a module built around continuous sampling rather than triggered one-shots.
EFNOTE

EFNOTE builds electronic kits with full-size shells, real cymbal profiles, and a module aimed at drummers who want the instrument to look and sit like an acoustic kit rather than a rack of pads.
2box

2box was founded by former ddrum engineers and built its DrumIt modules around user-loadable sample libraries in an open format, which made the instrument unusually extensible for its category.
Simmons

Dave Simmons built the first commercially successful electronic drum kit in Britain at the end of the 1970s, and the hexagonal pads and synthetic tom sound of the SDS-V are inseparable from 1980s production. The original company failed in 1994; the name now appears on budget electronic kits.
ddrum

ddrum began in Sweden building some of the first velocity-sensitive electronic drum systems with real playing feel, and its triggers are still standard equipment for drummers amplifying acoustic kits. The name now covers acoustic kits and snares as well.

Percussion Instruments

Instruments sounded by striking, shaking, scraping, or related percussive action.