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I'll make this a bit longer since it's such a new idea (relatively new, I guess I'm somewhat late to the party). Been playing with this for about a month so I have a good idea of what I like/don't like about it.It is a little bit tricky to start using, but once you get the hang of it, it's very good. The idea behind it is that it tracks height of the drum sticks when it stops falling (i.e., lowest point of the drum stroke) and the horizontal position of the drumstick across the screen to map a 3d drum set onto a 2-d video image. Interesting, and seemingly gimmicky, but it works, and it works pretty darn well. Of course, the biggest selling point is how portable it is. I used to march percussion and know how important it is to practice on-the-go.Some things I don't have a ton of experience with, but can talk about are the accuracy and latency. I can't say I've had the most experience with a real drum set, but I knew very quickly that my time literally air-drumming had caused me to develop some bad habits (i.e., I knew the motions of drumming, but had no accuracy when starting out). This would result in a lot of unintended cross-talk, as well as hitting the wrong drums because I wasn't used to hitting a drum in one spot consistently. This is something I learned fairly quickly, and the program did well to recreate a real, static drum set in this case.I'm a musician and play the bass (rhythm-intensive) so I can feel when something has even the slightest bit of latency. When this program says 2.5ms latency, they mean it. It's amazing. However, in order to reach these levels of latency, you do have to set this program as the only one using the audio output, meaning you can't also playback music from your default music player. Of course, Aerodrums includes a built-in music player (which is a bit clunky, but that may change with a later software update), and I've decided to output my Aerodrums and phone (as the music source) to a mini mixer (Behringer Xenyx 502 is perfect for this). Aerodrums also lets you record audio, both as an inclusive .wav file and as a multi-track output (a .wav file for each drum/instrument).Overall, I'm pleasantly surprised. I was expecting something that would only work half the time and I would probably end up selling or returning due to it being too gimmicky, but once you understand how exactly it works and what you have to do to get the most accurate drumming experience (which doesn't take much, just a bit of patience and willingness to reconfigure the drum layout) it can become a great way to create realistic sounding drum tracks. Looking for maybe an updated UI in later releases, as well as an ability to simulate brushes and cymbal choking (two things I thought I heard the guys behind Aerodrums were hoping to implement in the future).

I for one was pretty exited to get this product, I saw an ad for it online and I was sold. It’s a great idea. As a drummer this was a dream come true, being able to air drum at any time and have sound coming out. Yes please.Despite the big price of $199 plus shipping going to about a total of $210 US i bit the bullet and decided to go ahead and buy it.What I got was so disappointing I might as well chuck em in the trash. For starters, the sounds coming with the software are weak. I wasn’t expecting a pearl masters drum kit sound but what you get is the equivalent of the drum sounds you get in a iPhone garage band app playing with your fingers.Setting it up is a pain, you have to connect a web camera along with a light to your computer. And find a right place for it so it reads you.You have to make sure no other light is around which is already is a pain in itself and then pretty much hope the whole thing aligns Correctly. If you have a laptop like I do, then good luck for all the cables become in your way of your drumming and you feel like your trying to drum in a spider web in a dark room with a bright light in your face with cheap 3D like sunglasses that feel just like a bigger nousance.Once your set up, the latency and the hits are constantly misread and playing alone becomes a chore to make sure you don’t move around to much so the camera reads your hits, or if there is a small light in the background That messes up the camera that reads your hits and now every time you strike your right hand for a ride you hear a top Tom every time.Aside from everytime you want to hit your snare you hear a Tom or a crash sound, the program doesn’t let you play along to any music in your iTunes to play along with, defeating the whole purpose on air drumming along to your favorite songs. So the whole time your hearing crappy drum sounds, drumming with cables around you, feeling boxed in so the camera reads your hits and with a bright light in your face with paper sunglasses that feel so cheap it makes you wonder where those 199$ really went too, You end up just feeling un inspired, un satisfied and with a slight headache to go with all of it.I’m not the type of person to usually write reviews let along a negative one, but I am so pissed off and feel i got jipped out of 210$ that could have gone to anything else that I felt compelled to write this review. I gave it one star for the fast shipping that is more to amazon itself. Then the actual aerodrums.If you have 200$ around to spare and don’t mind a pain staking set up and thin drum sounds go with it sure, go ahead and buy it and knock your self out.But if you are on the border to buy this and are looking for a quality product, stay away and stick to actual air drumming itself that is way cheaper. (Whatever your sticks are worth) and funner. or save for a electronic drum kit. or build a kit out of pillows or pads which will be way more satisfying.It’s a great idea in itself but this product or the technology itself is not there at all. i wish I known this before and would have saved myself 200$.