Hi everyone, first of all sorry for my english. I was thinking in converting my Tama Rockstar in a MIDI drum. I found several triggers from different companies like Clavia-DDrum, Layon, Trigger Perfect... and several Trigger-MIDI-Converters too like Roland TMC-6, Yamaha DTXpress... I would like to plug all of this into my Audiophile 2496 sound card for using with Battery or DR-008 and my drum samples libraries. What should be my choice? Thanks in advanced.

you can put triggers onto your drum heads, then you will need a trigger-to-midi interface, like the Kat midi.k.i.t.i. If you don't want the noise you can use silent mesh heads on your Tama kit, the triggers will still work, but you'll have no sound from the head. I use the Pearl Muffle Heads, they work great.

Your trigger-to-midi interface will pass midi out to the midi in on your audiophile card. As long as you are using the ASIO driver for the audiophile, and have a reasonable fast system, the latency that you get *should* be low enough to trigger samplers in near-realtime within your sequencer, so you should be good to go.

The other route is to use dedicated eDrums instead of putting the triggers on your existing acoustinc drums. Advantages are that you'll have a smaller kit that's easier to move, less crosstalk (most likely) and more precision on the triggers, plus you'll have silent hi-hat functionality. Downsides are the cost, the fact that you'll have 2 drumkits, and the fact that they need electricity to work

Cheers and good luck