DTXmania


Drummania
Drummania  is a drumming music video game series produced by Bemani, the musical division of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. It was first released in 1999 as an arcade game, then subsequently ported to the Sony PlayStation 2 in Japan in 2000 as a launch title.

DrumMania uses a modified Yamaha DTXPRESS electronic drum-kit for simulates real life drumming. It is played using a controller designed to imitate a drum set. Five pads are arrayed from left to right for the hi-hat, snare drum, high tom, low tom, cymbal and bass drum.

Drummania XG version

In 2010, a series XG was introduced, adding a floor tom, left cymbal and left pedal to the cabinet set-up. The most recent arcade version is DrumMania XG3, which was released on March 9, 2012.


Drummania Gitadora version
Drummania Gitadora was introduced on year 2013. The game's songlist has steadily grow with each release, with the final version V8 containing over 500 songs. Songs are primarily in-house original compositions, covers of popular Japanese or English songs or edited master tracks licensed from the artists. (unfortunately all are not drum-less.) Most songs are pop and rock in style, although there are often a wide variety of musical genres available.

DTXMania Play-Along simulators
A handful of DrumMania simulators have been created for use on PCs, the most popular of which is open-sourced called DTXMania. It can be controlled using the computer keyboard, any USB device that can act as a joystick, or any MIDI instrument such as a MIDI keyboard or professional quality electronic drum kit.

On PC software version XG & Gitadora, a left cymbal, left pedal and a floor tom are added.
DTXmania works with any edrum kit as long as it is recognized in your computer as a midi input and use as supplement training from a teacher.

DTXmania PC Simfile:
By Bemani/Konami definition, a Simfile is a term relating to any file that represents a song for a specific simulator like Stepmania, Beatmania, GuitarFreaks/DrumMania  with Dtxmania using .dtx file extension


Dtxmania
https://en.osdn.jp/projects/dtxmania/


Dtxmania XG version
https://en.osdn.jp/projects/dtxmaniaxg-verk/


Dtxmania Gitadora Version
https://en.osdn.jp/projects/dtxmaniaxg-verk/releases/



Dtxmania2 - Beat with your heart
https://dtxmania.net/

Windows 10 64 bit compatible with great e-Drum setup features.



You can play Dtxmania if you do not have electronic drum set (or maybe the set is in the courier service truck, stuck at airport/custom, still with the supplier, getting one later, not getting one as fingers will do for you,...) - by using your computer keyboard.


Ooo..  yaa..  finger drumin' good