I couldn't get the Alesi Forge to play rim shots-it's hard for me to hear it in the monitors. They turn it up for me to hear it in morning practice-then, since I'm so hard of hearing I'm too loud in mix, so they push me back down-I hear bits and pieces of it but my wife says it sounds fine. I can hear whacking the pads-but I guess a reflex for more volume I get carried away whacking it harder sometimes LOL (which I'm not a hard hitter). I've always had disdain for e kits but now I'm playing one at a church it's a lot of fun-and when I do hear it-it does sound awesome. The bass player who bought it said it was real inexpensive.
I may buy one for quiet practice at home. It has a completely different feel from an acoustic kit and though toms and bass drum is fine I miss real cymbals and a snare-so think maybe hybridize the two-have a good monitor for toms and kick that I can blend with real snare and cymbals. What e-kit heads I don't use I can use for special effects or special tunings for different songs like Big band stuff. So in essence have a real and e kit side snare, e toms, e bass, real everything else and pads not in use special effects cymbals, etc. I hate this idea with a passion but it keeps coming up in my head haunting me-blend of analog and digital-damn cyborg drum kit.
We will have to become like insects in behaviors to persist at these high densities-and it will help survive all the pollution and "whatnot", and hybridized with computers and technology to become "Computer bugs"ROFL-that's too funny. I'm sorry I couldn't help myself. After reading some of these recent neuro papers with cochlear implants and the brain relearning how to hear and what not, since when we hear music and play an instruments-we do so in our heads whether we act on it or not. That's why listening to a song is so critical to learning it correctly. Anyways they should be able to put jack in. the back of your head like the Matrix and capture those motor impulses to emulate body motion and directly play your e kit in your brain-how cool would that be. Even have to activate sensory visual cortex for a holographic e kit you would see and play in your head and output comes out the monitors (maybe bluetooth). I bet we would still play our own unique ways just because of minor differences. They are probably working on stuff like this for gaming I bet?