After more than a year since my latest VR drum cover, I’m back with the most ambitious one I’ve recorded yet: Whiplash by Hank Levy! Just like my previous covers, I performed it using the drumming app I’ve been developing for VR, Paradiddle (). It’s currently available on Steam Early Access for PC VR (), and App Lab for Quest ().
My goal with this cover specifically was to test some of the more advanced features that I’ve added to the app over the past year. I’m using electronic drum pedals to control the kick and hi-hat drums in the app, through the MIDI integration. I connected the MIDI output from the app to Superior Drummer 3, which allowed me to use some more professional drum set sounds, as well as do all the audio mixing. It was my first time really delving in depth to audio mixing and working with MIDI files, and it was a ton of fun to be able t