DRUMYMost electronic drum kits made in the last decade have a USB port on the module. Over that one cable the kit sends MIDI — a message for every hit, saying which pad and how hard — and a computer understands it without installing anything.
What you need
- Your kit's module, switched on.
- A USB cable that fits the module (often USB-B, the square one; some newer modules use USB-C).
- A Mac or PC with Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Opera. These browsers can read MIDI from a USB device; Safari on iPhone and iPad cannot.
Step by step
- Connect the module's USB port to the computer. No driver is needed for the kit's MIDI on most modules.
- Open a song on DRUMY in one of those browsers. When it asks to use MIDI devices, allow it.
- Hit a pad. The matching lane lights up. The usual notes for kick, snare, hi-hat, toms and cymbals are already mapped.
- If a pad lands in the wrong lane, open Setup drums and hit the pad to give it the right drum. Open hi-hat and the hi-hat pedal have their own pads.
If nothing happens
- Try another USB port or cable — some cables only charge and carry no data.
- Close other music programs that may have taken the kit, then reload the page.
- Check the browser's site settings allow MIDI for the page.
- No kit handy? Eight keys on the keyboard play the drums too.