Category: Recording

Gear, Performance, Recording

More MIDI

digitalDrummer explores a new compact MIDI hub. CME, which revolutionised wireless MIDI with its compact, easy-to-use WIDI products, has stepped up the game with a couple of new router-type devices. digitalDrummer got to test the “host” version – the H4MIDI WC. What’s in the box Like its WIDI siblings, the H4MIDI WC is a compact, fuss-free box. It is significantly larger than the WIDI transmitters and receivers – mostly to accommodate a bunch of input and output jacks ranging from USB to traditional five-pin MIDI. Essentially, the device is a two-in, two-out MIDI router which allows you to connect a number of MIDI devices together. To further enhance connectivity, users are able to easily add a wireless Bluetooth board – […]

Recording, Samples

E-drumming at the holy grail

Quebec-based artist and musician Antonio de Braga has just returned from the holy grail of music recording, Abbey Road Studios, in London, where he spent a day experimenting with acoustic and electronic drums. The e-drummer, who shared his innovative upright bass-style e-cajon with digitalDrummer a few years back (dD, Nov 2016), says his latest project was about “getting the best recording I could from my e-drums and playing acoustic drums as a layer to get the best of both worlds”. de Braga had dreamed of visiting Abbey Road 50 years ago when he saw The Beatles’ movies, and more recently began thinking about recording at the legendary studio, so he researched the facilities and services on offer. He had his […]