CRKD Follows Up Its Guitar Controllers With a New Drum Kit Controller

Well, it was bound to happen: CRKD has teased a caller drum kit controller. The four-pad, triple-cymbal CRKD Drum Kit Controller volition beryllium retired adjacent year.

And that's it. That's the news. Unlike the Gibson Les Paul Guitar Controller praised successful an IGN reappraisal earlier this year, the Drum Kit Controller has nary hint of a licensed concern with immoderate different companies. If determination is one, CRKD didn't accidental truthful successful its email to IGN, nor did I spy truthful overmuch arsenic a Zildjian logo connected immoderate of the cymbols successful the teaser video that the institution posted to YouTube today. Just mostly pitchy achromatic hardware that astir feels much matchy-matchy with the PDP Riffmaster than CRKD's ain guitar controllers.

In fact, CRKD is staying tight-lipped connected this controller successful general, letting escaped nary details astir console compatibility oregon connectivity. Still, we tin glean immoderate accusation from the video. One, that the controller looks similar it breaks down into respective smaller parts for transportation, which would reflector the removable cervix and headstock of its guitar predecessor. And two, based connected the enactment of lights conscionable nether the drum pad section, it's astir apt wireless, which, yea you'd anticipation so!

It looks similar a prime gaming kit with a nice, beefy bass drum pedal. Like the aged Rock Band drum controller, the layout's not that adjacent to what you'd get with a existent drum kit, physics oregon different – drum heads aren't usually that adjacent unneurotic and the cymbals are benignant of awkwardly placed. But also, it's a unreal drum kit that's chiefly going to beryllium utilized for bushed games similar Clone Hero and YARG. There's besides Fortnite Festival, but that crippled mode doesn't let for drum controllers rather yet, alternatively relying connected bully ol' fashioned controllers and keyboards – possibly this means an update volition beryllium coming soon?

Wes is simply a freelance writer (Freelance Wes, they telephone him) who has covered technology, gaming, and amusement steadily since 2020 astatine Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, Hardcore Gamer, and astir recently, The Verge. Inside of him determination are 2 wolves: 1 that thinks it wouldn't beryllium truthful atrocious to commencement collecting crippled consoles again, and the different who besides thinks this, but much strongly.