Day: September 14, 2026

Gear

DruML review: The brains move into the drum

Editor’s note: Most digitalDrummer reviews focus on evaluating a product. This one also explores a new architecture for electronic drum triggering. If you’re simply wondering whether the S1 is a good snare, the short answer is yes. If you’re interested in where e-drum technology may be heading, read on. DruML’s S1 isn’t just another premium electronic snare. By moving trigger processing out of the module and into the instrument itself, it challenges one of the longest-standing assumptions in electronic percussion. We spent weeks testing the technology across VSTs, modern USB-equipped modules and legacy MIDI systems. The results reveal both the considerable potential of this new architecture and some connectivity questions that we are still investigating. It’s hard to believe that […]

Gear

Simmons Titan 90: Next level

Simmons Titan 90

At first glance, the new Simmons Titan 90 looks like an upsizing of the previous flagship kit, with bigger toms, cymbals, and a two-piece hi-hat. But as we discovered, the changes are more than skin-deep. What’s in the box The T90 kit comes in a large, heavy box containing a 12” mesh snare, four 10” dual-zone mesh toms, a 7” kick pad, two 12” triple-zone crashes, and a 14” triple-zone ride. The toms and cymbals are all 2” bigger than those on the T75 they supersede, while the ride grows from 12” to 14”. The biggest physical change is the 12” TruMotion hi-hat—a moving hi-hat that mounts on a conventional stand, giving the T90 a familiar acoustic-kit configuration rather than […]