*bang bang boom boom drum noises*
What's up, my name is Roomie and welcome to another video today, we're doing a new series. I wanna call this...
👏 Tech review👏 ,but it's not any kind of tech this is music tech because this is a music channel.
We don't do things like Googling ourselves on this channel. Let's introduce the *first* item in this series.
I know it's gonna blow your mind it definitely is gonna blow my mind and
if it doesn't I'm gonna fake it uh.. Ha ha okay. So the tech 👏 thing we're gonna try today is
Aero Drums and as you can see here it is not a drum kit but it is kind of a
drum kit because you play air drums and your computer actually makes it so that
it sounds like a drum kit. Let's get it set up. First off you need a surface that
is kind of like normal table height. So I'm gonna have to take down my standing desk. *obnoxious spinny wheel thing*
Okay so the way this works is that you have a few different things you have
these drumsticks that have reflective balls on them that reflect light, and
then you also have reflective things to put on your feet so that means that it
can track your hands moving and your feet moving. As you know the hands can
play on different drums, and the feet play bass drum and hi-hat, and this is
the most interesting part this is kind of the magic of the whole thing this is
a PlayStation 3 camera that can film in 120 frames per second and lights and
this light sends out light o-obviously. And then it gets
reflected on these different things and the camera sees that and plays drum
samples based on that.
There we go, there is the light.
Yeah, it looks sh*t.
I need to make sure that I sit exactly right so that the camera can see both my feet and
my hands I can play the drums in the program you can see here that there's a
dude and I'm supposed to match up with the dude I don't really have a lot of
space though. Okay so we actually had to turn off one of the video lights now
because it's super sensitive with the lighting this lights needs to be like
the strongest light around you when you're playing because that light is
supposed to be reflected by these and these back onto the camera. Okay let's
try it out. I'm excited..
Wow see if I can hit a Tom. It's like there's a drum set there it's crazy!
That's sick! Look at the feet..
So you can actually see on the screen over here
exactly what's happening so like.. It's very exact actually about where the drums are.
So cool...
To me this feels way more real than an electronic drum kit it's crazy but like
look at this.
It's crazy cool! Okay, so I really want to put this technology to
the test in this video I'm gonna write a song that's pretty demanding on the
drummer and see if I can play it with these I think it might be possible but
I'm gonna have to practice quite a bit.. "DAYTWO" I decided to turn off all the
graphics that show you how to play because I really want to learn how to
play air drums just like in the air now I'm just gonna jam around a bit with a
bass line and see if I can actually play drums...
Ugh..
Okay so one thing I noticed when I started drumming that's very different
from normal drumming is that there aren't any drums and you may think that
oh that's not a big deal who needs drums for drumming right wrong and you know
why that's wrong it's because you don't get any bounce so it's a totally
different experience we can't have to stop the stick yourself which feels
really weird when you're used to its bouncing back suddenly you're just
hitting air. Anyway I think I can get used to it let's get back to practice
There is actually a way for me to take this playing and put it into my music
program because it can help of MIDI which is the way that different music
programs talk to each other that's what I'm gonna do
"TWELVE SECONDS LATER" Okay so I'm finally sit up in logic. So you know I'm ready to
rock pretty much...
Okay I think that's enough practice time for the final song
this version of the song is mixed with the drums really loud so you can hear
everything that's happening if you want a normally mixed version of the song you
can go super subscribe over at patreon.com/roomieofficial and
download it there okay here's the song
Watching the train go by and wishing I could get on it..
That's how I spent my life, just knowing I couldn't have it.
Anyone could see I
Didn't want to be me.
be me
couldn't love myself
or anybody else
breathe, just breathe
You said it, I melted, it felt so strange
I knew it, that moment, my life would change
just you and me together
we breathe
funny how you could do, what I just knew, couldn't happen
everything feels so right
The future's bright, bass is slipping, anyone could see, didn't want to be me.
Couldn't love myself, or anybody else, breathe
just breathe
You said it, I melted it felt so strange, (so strange)
I knew it, that moment, my life would change
Just you and me, together we breathe
Okay so here's my final thoughts on aerodrums
first up this is a really cool tech and I was so amazed sitting down with it and
just feeling how responsive it was but and this is a big but it has a lot of
inaccuracies for example if you move this thick around like this not actually
hitting anything you'll get a bunch of tiny tiny strokes and in this final song
I actually had to delete a bunch of strokes like that just to make it sound
alright a big limitation of this is that you can't have whatever light that you
want where you're playing so for example going through a stage and playing with
stage lights and stuff that would be impossible in addition to this sometimes when I would
hit the crash cymbals when I was playing this song it would miss I actually have
to record the final song like ten times in order for all the cymbal hits and
stuff to be noticed by the program time to make a song in not 60 not 59 but 58
minutes..
Today I have done my girlfriend's a sauce shop what do you
think??
I hate it.. You hate it?? Ahahaha