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Features
- BeatScratch Technology creates drum patterns by strumming your guitar or bass strings
- Guitarists can quickly generate professional and authentic sounding drum beats for live performances, songwriting, and practice
- Drum sounds and patterns can also be created by tapping the kick/snare touch pads
- 5 drum kits and studio quality samples for professional sounding drums
- 36 song memories with 12 different Hats/Rides styles
Description
SDRUM is the world’s first intelligent drum machine for guitarists and bassists. By simply scratching across your guitar strings, you teach the SDRUM a kick and snare pattern that forms the foundation of the beat you want to hear. Based on this pattern, the SDRUM supplies a professional sounding drum beat with different embellishments and variations to perfectly complement your beat. Gone are the days of having your creative flow disrupted by searching through lists in a frustrating attempt to find the beat you want. The SDRUM stores up to 36 different songs. Beats are played from a choice of 5 different kits covering a wide range of genres. The pedal also supports three different parts (e.g. verse/chorus/bridge) for each song that can be switched on the fly for enhancing live performances and exploring song ideas. SDRUM is the fastest way to go from a beat idea to a working drum track.
Brand: DigiTech
Style: Multi Effect Processor
Color: White
Item Weight: 16 ounces
Voltage: 9 volts
Voltage: 9 volts
Amperage: 300 milliamps
Controls Type: Touch
Power Source: Corded Electric
Hardware Interface: USB
Signal Format: Analog
Style: Multi Effect Processor
Color: White
Item Weight: 16 ounces
Item Dimensions: 5.4 x 2.5 x 3.25 inches
Brand Name: DigiTech
Number of Items: 1
UPC: 691991007484
Global Trade Identification Number: 84
Unit Count: 1 Count
Item Type Name: Multi Effect Processor
Manufacturer: DigiTech
Model Name: Automatic Drum Machine Pedal for Guitar
Model Number: SDRUM
Manufacturer Part Number: SDRUM
Warranty Description: Na.
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I was a little leary on this since the reviews are kind of back and forth. Bottom line, it sounds great and is EASY to get a really great beat out of it. If I had to guess the three places people are going wrong with it: You can't blast a full signal at it. I turn OFF my compressor and roll the guitar volume to about half give or take. (humbuckers) With too much signal its hard to pull off more intricate beats. For me personally I pluck the low E with my Thumb for the kick, then pluck the high E for my snare. For my personal play style, this is more comfortable for me than strumming, and it seems to work perfectly. Next, it doesn't sound all that great through the guitar amp (no surprise) but into a decent PA speaker (I use an EV ZLX12 that is self powered) and it really sounds amazing. I have a lot of experience with programming and recording drums for the past 20 years and I can honestly say the samples sound really high quality. Perfect in a mix. Last is that its too complicated. Its not. It LOOKS complicated with the unfamiliar style of knobs, buttons, and lights and what not but when you actually spend 30min on it with the manual it becomes how apparently easy it is to control. Its NOT a plug and play pedal like a dirt or reverb and it sounds like that is what people are hoping for. Its still not that hard though. In 30 minutes I was up and running and after another hour of practicing with it I was good and changing sounds and feel on the fly with lots of different drum fills. SOOO nice!! You do have to have some drumming skills though.. several of the videos I saw of demos online were with people that very much lacked. Final thought. If you have a quality PA to use with it, and the patience to sit down with the pedal and manual, and of course some drum talent. If you want a plug and play pedal that shoots out premade drum tracks then I would suggest the BeatBuddy. This pedal shines for making your own, and does is very well.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2019 by Ron
I use it in my keys act. I think this is the best sounding drum pedal I've heard, especially at this price point. The kick, snare, ride, and hats sound really good. Fortunately you rarely hear a crash, because they always sound stupid on a beat box. I run it through a PA, so that might result in a different (maybe better) sound than those who run it through a combo guitar amp. Is it fussy to program? There is indeed a gently sloped learning curve, but it's worth it because it sounds so good. I think it would be much harder teaching it a rhythm by strumming a guitar. As a keys player, I have used only the kick and snare pads. When you are programming an open part or song with the pads, a trick is to screw it up on purpose the first try. That might sound absurd, but when you try again to correct the screw-up, the Sdrum will give you a metronome that will make it much easier for you to nail the beat you want. A design flaw is that there's no metronome on the first try. I hope they correct that. Another thing with the programming: It quantizes, but not too strictly. This fact can be frustrating at first, because if you don't program close enough to the metronome, you can end up with downbeats and snare snaps wandering around a bit within the bars -- but always at tempo. However, this could actually be something jazz players might really appreciate, and some songwriters, too, who might be looking for a quirky beat to trigger some inspiration. My gripe is build-related. On mine at least, the Song button is really loose, and pressing it with my fingertip, the same way I press the Tempo and Part buttons, doesn't put the Sdrum in Song mode. I found jabbing it sharply and quickly with my nail is the only way to activate it. I looked into sending it back, but it's a month after the cheapskate 30-day return window, and I already have 10 songs loaded on it that I would have to re-create. I might have to open the pedal up and see if I can monkey with it. One last tip: To avoid screwups on stage, don't try to get too complicated with the Sdrum. For godssake, don't program a Bridge part on a song. When you toggle the pedal, especially if you're playing AND singing as I do, it takes your focus away from your performance. If you screw it up -- and unfortunately, it's easy to do if you're feeling for that button with your foot after every song part -- you will be lost and embarrassed. See if you can get by on a tune with just one part, the Verse. Everyone of course will know you're using a drum machine when they fail to spot a drummer sitting behind you. They won't care, as long as you keep it simple and play really well. Don't destroy your performance by trying to be perfect or too clever.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2022 by Mark N.
At first I was a bit hesitant when I saw some of the bad reviews. But I decided to go ahead and get it anyway. And I'm so glad I did. I haven't been this impressed with a pedal in such a long time. These guys are geniuses! They literally revolutionized drumming. I always thought drums could be boiled down to kick, snare, closed hat. But they took it a step further and are like "nah, the main ones are only Kick and Snare". And they're totally right. The hats and the other things like cymbals can be easily programmed in patterns around the backbone of the kick/snare which the user inputs via loops/pads. The kick/snare is what gives the drum the soul-- everything else is ornaments. I have a lot of drum machines, digitakt, mc-101, etc. And what I hate is that in step sequencers, all drums parts are given equal priority. And so you end up with a 16 step sequencer for each drum part. It's so overly complicated to program. But these guys show that drums can be boiled down to Kick/Snare and everything else is just an ornamental pattern. It makes laying down a beat and improvising on a guitar or synth so easy, you can focus on what really matters. It's like they gave me a completely different perspective on drums. It's not just a pedal, it's an important lesson in music/drum theory and I am grateful that they opened my eyes to this simplicity. edit: I still think it's great. But I wish there was a way to turn down the volume of the snare relative to the kick, to my ears it sounds like the snare is a bit more dominant. I'll fix it with either a filter or doubling up the kick so it's not too bad. but wish there was volume control for the individual drum parts. Also wish there was a bpm meter on the device. Lastly, wish the JamSync was more general and just made as a midi out so it could be used more easily with loopers/samplers etc.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2025 by Reviewer
This is the drum machine that I thought should be out their in today's age of technology. I looked for a long time on Amazon and could not seemed to find one that suited me for the price I wanted to pay for it until this one popped up automatically. It seems to think for you and adds in beats when you need them. It won't replace a real drummer in a live performance but at home banging around it is the bomb! it gives you the verse, chorus, and bridge beats and you can change back and forth at any time. I saw a lot of complaints about this peddle doing something out of time. I don't know what they are talking about because a live drummer doesn't follow you, you all work together to keep in time anyway. It seemed like to me it put in extra beats to make up for what I was missing while picking the notes of a song on my guitar. I grew up playing by ear and when one of us would miss a note another person would just hit an extra hard strum especially when you knew you were getting close to your buddy's bad place. also a few complaints about all those lights. Heck I like a lot of lights. Makes me feel like I am in Vegas. You will have to watch a lot of videos and punch on the buttons a bunch of times to get the feel of it, but it is learnable and doable because I got it to work. The only thing bad about it is that amazon raised the price about 30 to 40 dollars right after I purchased it so it is getting close to being out of my price range for another toy to play with. $139 yes. Anything between $175 on up. No
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Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2021 by Dana M. Hall
Too many options. Can't do anything quickly. Way too much knob and switch fussing. You'd need an additional person to operate this playing live -- might as well just hire a live drummer. The engineers ran away with themselves designing this; they clearly weren't thinking of the people who have to USE it. In a studio, where there's time to set it up for each recording, it would probably be fine. The drum sounds are awesome. But the time it takes fiddling with the setting outweighs any advantages. I returned it.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2019 by Terrance Lanning
It is awesome to tap out a temp and a drum groove so quickly and get to jammin' over it. The strumming input works, but you have to replicate the same snare and kick muted slap you made on the instrument when you "taught" it. And of course you have to have descent time and be able to count. This combination with a couple of JamMan pedals would be the most awesome setup in the world IF Jamsync wasn't so clunky. The red light on the "tempo" indicator should be the 1st beat of the drum loop, but somehow when engaged the JamMan sometimes starts Rec on the next red light, sometimes not. "Silent Erase" function is extremely hit and miss on the JamMan when synced to the SDRUM and if you connect a 2nd JamMan, you get some more chaos when trying get the 2nd one to start recording in the right place. And then, as some other reviewer points out, the whole setup will arbitrarily repeat the 1st measure, so your 8 bar pattern may suddenly become a 9 bar pattern for no reason, or throws in a goofy little tom fill you din't ask for. So, for messing around at home it's a pretty cool toy. You could use it live, but just as a drum machine or with maybe a really simple 2 bar loop in a low pressure environment where you could get by with a "do over", because you will have to. It's just a shame Jamsync is implemented so poorly. If it worked right you could rule the world with this setup.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2019 by Gary M Gibbs
Fun little pedal to play with. Has a lot of different sounds to change it up for different sounds and genres. Takes a little getting used to but once you figure it out it’s actually pretty useful.
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2026 by Jerremy
There are a lot of ways to get backing drums for guitarists but they are usually pre-made loops to choose from. The SDRUM allows you to make custom drum loops, for both a verse and chorus, with an automatic fill between the two. Meaning you can create a full (but fairly simple) original song for drums to play over. Teaching the SDRUM a pattern is like showing a real drummer a rhythm with a guitar. You can trigger the kick with low strings and snare with high strings. Or you can manually tap it in with key pads. After recording a measure or two of a pattern the SDRUM generates the drums. It has several types of drums like Electronic and Power for different voicings. There is a huge amount of hats/rides patterns to layer on top of the kick and snare. An entire dial is dedicated to just that, with 3 versions of each pattern as well. You can dictate 3/4 or 4/4 timing and switch between straight time and swing time feels- which is awesome for filling out a basic song or just trying something new with the same pattern. Each part of the song can be emphasized too, which just adds more dynamic range to a basic verse/chorus/fill structure. Does it completely replace a real drummer? No, but the SDRUM doesn't show up late to practice either. You can adjust the tempo and it even acts as a metronome for practice. Just a great tool for anyone that needs a drummer in a box. Being able to quickly make up new patterns opens up more creativity than just using premade loops. The SDRUM can store a bunch of 'songs' you've made drums for as well for easy playback of that idea you were toying with the other day. It does a lot but is pretty straight forward in actual application. Once you learn how to 'teach' it patterns, and how to set up verse/chorus 'songs'.... it's all just fine tuning and is mostly just experimenting with the knobs. Almost as easy as using pre-made loops. I find it much more interesting than the loops most pedals and DAWs use.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2020 by Keith Sollenberger