
Yes it exists!
The full size Casio electronic drumkit. James Earthenware in Melbourne the proud and skillfull owner of two pads from this kit and the Casio midi translator box, I have seen it and it is truly beautiful, very solidly built too. The picture above is of the WHOLE KIT from the Casio
page of the wonderful electronic drums gallery of Shigeru Nakamaura.
The page is titled CASIO DZ-20S,DZ-30B and the rest of the text is in Japanese.
(bugger - that site is gone!)
Any more info would be fab if anyone has it, plus on that page in the list of bands that use electronic drums (a veritable whos who of synthpop) is the band, CASIOPEA!, but they used simmons and not casio, hey…?
Oh and on the topic of midi drums, for Aussies, this months issue of Silicon Chip magazine features a DIY midi drum brain project, whoo hoo! That means the kit will be in Jaycar stores soon and cheap ass midi drums can be yours! Do check out the frankly bizarre cover photo on Silicon Chip too, a leather clad woman playing electronic drums that look like they’re built off a clothes rack.
couple of more photos of the DZ kit over the fold (this is of one that was for sale in france - I couldnt pony up the postage :( - this was ages ago though, Tadas :)
Okay, talk of a more technical nature: These are really solid professional drum trigger pads, they plug into any midi drum translator, aka ‘brain’, or trigger input of gear that has such, like the dr pad series. They are quite heavy and certainly will handle drummerly behaviour. Because of the era no fancy pants stuff like triggering different tones depending where you hit them - but of course they are velocity sensitive. I can’t think of any more info, simple devices really. Maybe red engineer, owner of the toms, has anything to add?


