The Quiet and Portable Alternative.

Aerodrums is an air-drumming instrument. It runs on your computer and understands your drumming intent by watching you drum through a high speed camera. Aerodrums is:

Portable
Virtually silent
Expressive
Extensible
Affordable
Watch drummers enjoy Aerodrums for the first time at NAMM 2015
See how you can emulate rebound to drum as fast as on a real kit and get great dynamics.

You can purchase Aerodrums directly from us below (the camera is included). We ship worldwide and offer a 30 days money back guarantee. Aerodrums is covered by a 1 year warranty.

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Requirements:

You may also be interested in downloading Aered, our sheet music editor designed specifically for drummers.

Aerodrums is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 and upAerodrums is compatible with Windows Vista, 7 and 8

  • Windows or Mac computer from 2009 or later. Aerodrums is compatible with Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 10, and Mac OS X 10.6 and up.

  • Sony Playstation 3 Eye camera (included when purchased on this website, currently retails for $10 on Amazon).

  • One time internet access to download the software and samples (873 MB for Windows PC, 898 MB for Mac).
Check our FAQ for answers to common questions.

Limitations: Aerodrums cannot be used to drum outdoors in daylight. Aerodrums uses a light that can seem very bright in low light environments, paper sunglasses are included to protect your eyes when needed.

Here is a video about foot technique.
Aerodrums is a MIDI instrument, you can drum into samplers or DAWs.

Expressiveness, realism and extensibility.

Aerodrums uses a subset of the Natural Drum Kit sample library, providing very high quality sound and expressiveness on par with a real drum kit.

For example, Aerodrums supports 16 different levels of openness for the hi-hats and uses as many as 58 different sound samples for a given openness level, per hand. Aerodrums uses different samples for the dominant and non-dominant hand.

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You can point Aerodrums to your own sample collections to create new drums or cymbals to include in your drum kits. Aerodrums can also output MIDI notes as you drum, enabling you to trigger any MIDI compatible sampler (e.g. VST instruments such as Toontrack’s Superior Drummer), as well as record what you drum straight into a Digital Audio Workstation.

Here is a detailed list of the drums, cymbals and percussion that are sampled in the subset of the Natural Drum Kit library that Aerodrums uses:

  • Snares: Yamaha Peter Erskine Signature Model, 10 x 4 and Pearl Masters “All Maple”, 12 x 7.
  • Kick drums: Gretsch USA Maple, 20 x 16 and Gretsch USA Maple, 14 x 11 floor tom, positioned and played as a kick.
  • Hi-hats: UFIP 13″ “Bionic Series”
  • Splashes: UFIP 8″ and 12″ “Natural Series” splashes.
  • Crashes: UFIP 15″ and 18″ “Natural Series” crashes.
  • China: Zildjian 19″ “K Series”.
  • Ride: UFIP 20″ “Natural Series”.
  • Toms: Gretsch USA Maple 8″, 10″, 12″, 14″, 16″, one set of samples tuned for a bop sound and another set for a rock sound
  • Cowbell: Meinl 8” “Original Realplayer” steelbell
  • Tambourine

Find out more.

You can check our FAQ and browse/join our forums.