A lot of people love to play drums, but not many can play them well. It’s not that they did not practice enough, not because they are lack of willpower either, but because the time and space does not allow them to practice and play as much as they wanted to. Learn and practice drumming is indeed an extremely hard task in highly populated cities nowadays. Drummers get complaints from their families and neighbors, or even warned by police force, all because the uncontrollable volume while drumming. To practice with practice pads is not only boring, feels very different from playing real drums, lack of resonance from real drums also makes it hard for drummers to cultivate necessary melodies of rhythm, while Electronic Drums in the market are too expensive and with 8” small rubber pads, which is very different from real drums, and not ideal for practice or performance. Our goal is to build drums that drummers can enjoy drumming freely at an affordable price.
After hundreds of tests, we finally found the drumhead material that gives the right feel of bounce for sticks, and conducts digital signals completely. Our next step is to solve the problems like electronic conduction method, pickup design, and circuit integration, the most important part of all lies in the development of drum module, which is the heart of an electronic drum set, it must be able to perfectly analyze the linear data when drummers play, and catches slight changes, light, heavy, fast, slow…etc.. While the electronic drum set is being played, this will allow the digital signal on the drum module to match the analogue linear of traditional drums. We finally finished our first prototype model after continuous research and experiment for 2 and half years. This is the foundation of our dream.
喜欢打鼓的人很多，但最终能打得一手好鼓的人却不多。不是因为努力不够，不是因为毅力不足，而是因为时间空间的限制，让人无法尽情的练习打击。在小人稠的都市 中，学习打鼓着实是一件困难重重的事，往往因练习音量过大家人和邻居抗议，甚至被报警处理。以打击板来练习又过于单调乏味，不仅击触感生硬，在没有真鼓共 鸣的情境下，亦无法培养打击的旋律性。而电子又因价格过高、外型不佳、鼓面皆只有八吋，与真鼓差异过大等因素限制，非理想的练习界面。
一个梦想的出现，只要敢想即可，但一个梦想的起动，则是一场耐力的考验。为了创造出兼具传统鼓与电子鼓优点的鼓具，XM的设计团队经历了一个个的艰难挑战，首先 是寻求可架设在传统鼓上的可用材质，在尝试过上百种不同的材质后，才找到可真实反应打击触感，并完整传导打击讯号的鼓皮材质；接下来则是电子传导方式、拾 音器设计、线路整合等问题的克服，而其中最重要的则是电子鼓音源主机的研发。此主机可说是整组鼓具的灵魂，它必须完美的掌握鼓手打击时的线性数据，反应出 打击时各种轻重快慢的变化，让打击时主机所呈现的数字讯号能吻合真鼓的模拟线性，在经过不断的研发实验近二年半后，才完成了。
因为看到太多喜欢爵士鼓，却因学习不便而不敢学鼓者，所以有了XM；因为看到太多喜欢打鼓，却苦于练习时音量扰人半途而废者，所以有了XM；因为看到太多职 业鼓手，烦恼于现场繁杂的音控作业，所以有了XM。有了XM，让更多人在不受时空限制 下，尽情享受打击的乐趣!!
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