Does your group or your church need a quiet set of drums but you don't want the look or feel of drum pads? Here is your answer. SpaceMuffins were developed by a drummer and employ real drum shells and real drum heads, but they are stuffed with a special acoustic foam and have their own internal triggers to trigger sounds in a drum module, in this case, the Alesis DMPro. With these, your drummer can hit the drums as hard as he wants and he gets the feel he is looking for, but the soundman has the last word on how loud he is!
SpaceMuffins trigger drum set and Alesis DMPro drum module
The Alesis DM Pro is one of the best drum modules ever produced. The DM Pro houses 1,664 sounds, offers 64-note polyphony, and is 16-part multitimbral. It has a trigger-to-MIDI interface, six 1/4 inch TRS outputs, dual onboard effects with 24-bit DACs (based on the Alesis Q20 engine), and positional hi-hat control. Housed in a single-unit rack-mount case, the module has a large backlit LCD screen, a value wheel, a 1 1/4 4-inch headphone jack, a master volume knob, and buttons dedicated to various edit functions. These front-panel buttons are brightly backlit, making them easy to see on stage or in a darkened studio. The back panel has six 1/4 inch TRS audio outputs (two mains, two stereo auxes, and two mono auxes) and MIDI In, Out, and Thru ports as well as two RCA aux inputs. So the DM Pro serves as a mixer for all the drum sounds and effects and can even serve as a headphone monitoring system for the drummer by feeding a band mix back into the RCA aux inputs! The headphone amp is powerful, making it a blessing for drummers. The DM Pro provides ten trigger inputs, six of which are TRS jacks for dual-zone pads (snare/rim, cymbal, ride, and hi-hat). The kick and three tom inputs are monaural. Although the DM Pro defaults to a three-tom kit, you can assign more toms if you wish, and you can also split a TRS input into dual mono inputs.
