SamplePad Pro Electric Drum Pad | 8 Velocity-Sensitive Pads, 200+ Built-In Sounds, SD/SDHC Card Slot, for Live Performance

I’ve been gigging with this pad for a couple of years now and it has performed flawlessly. You just need to understand that for every input , volume change , anything, you have to save every move.

Loads of fun. Sort of old technology but who cares. I like that you can use your own samples. And reverb too! Lots of options. This is a great substitute for the non-drummer that just wants to add some real druming to his/her recordings. Banging on pads is a lot more fun then adding "qunantization, groove, humanizing" DAW otions. I'm old school and like to use my body to make music. ;-)

Coming from a Yamaha M-12, the Alesis is very simple and basic, but it suits my needs better. The pads are firmer and respond better to my playing. You can layer a sound, but only 2 per pad, not 4 like I was used to. I'll be using it mostly with vst's, so that won't be an issue. Size is good, construction quality seems OK for the price, and overall I'm happy with it. If you don't need all the fancy bells and whistles, this might work for you.

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It depends on the needs of each particular musician.The internal sounds are very basic and false .If in the end I have to invest in a card to add sounds to the taste better I go for something of a lower price .

I've had this for around a year now. Use it live exclusively. So far, I've had ZERO problems. IT's been a very solid piece of gear. I downloaded all the Alesis sounds onto the card, but mostly I use the built in sounds. I don't need a ton of samples these days, but I do need things like handclap. I could get tamborine/cowbell setups, but our mixer is out of inputs, so I use these electronic versions. Nice that it has built in reverb! I've yet to use an external trigger, but I"m thinking about it. I could use a small pad, right honey? Pros: good clean sounds, small size fits anywhere. Pads are nice. Solid construction and dependable performance. . Cons: I'd like a brighter view screen for outdoor shows. Not a big con, but I thought I'd mention it. Once in a while, the SD card pops loose, and I have to push it back in. This happens when casing / uncasing it, User error, but if it were inset somehow where one couldn't accidentally hit it, it would be better. Wish list. Make the same item with two more bar shaped pads along the bottom with a couple of more inputs, and you could built an entire drum set with this. Would be cool if it came in a roundish shape.

I really wanted this to work well. I like the compact form factor and the look. I like the light up pads. but the the pads are awful and not responsive enough. the two small pads do not trigger consistantly at all. in fact they dont trigger most of the time unless you really pound on it. i was very disappointed in this. The pads just arent sensitive enough. not playable at all with hands and you really have to whack it hard with the sticks. no light drumming. I honestly dont know how a product like this makes it to market. I also tried out the Kat ktmp1 - and LOVE it. the form factor isnt quite as nice looking, but it WORKS. you can tap with fingers or sticks. the pads all work. theyre easy to set up. you get a few stages of velocity with hands or sticks. I also tried the Keith McMillen Boppad. which is also really great. it feels very well made and i like that its usb bus powered so is plug and play with an ipad or daw. its advertised as having more layers of velocity and cc 'zones' on each pad, but in practice it wasnt very precise and that feature isnt really that usable for me. I went with the kat mostly bc of price. do not buy the alesis. those other are real drum pads. the alesis is total garbage. returned.

We bought one of these to use in live performance. We're a working, somewhat "serious" band, and we don't exactly take it easy on our equipment. This failed the test. Horribly. Pros: When it works, it sounds pretty good! After she re-programmed the drum sounds (the factory ones are terrible), our drummer can make it sound like an entire drum kit! And much more portable. Cons: You never know when it's going to stop working or do something strange. Here are some things it has done: 1) Line noise. Other reviews commented on this as well. It generates a hum which sounds like a ground loop, even though there isn't one. Sometimes you can hear it, sometimes you can't. No idea why. 2) Not durable. The pad triggers "bleed" into each other -- you hit one pad, and it makes the sounds from other pads. This is also common and discussed on the Alesis support forums. Is this because we hit it with a stick too many times? Maybe. But that's what drummers do!!! 3) Bad control placement. When you're playing, it's pretty easy to accidentally hit one of the arrow buttons. Our drummer does this all the time. It switches the patch. So, in the middle of a performance, all of the sudden the sounds change! 4) Incomprehensible tone changes. We haven't figure this one out. For no apparent reason, the tone of the sound changed during our rehearsal. Everything sounded muffled and ringy. We restored the factory settings and it fixed the problem. But... what the heck? We have no idea what caused this. Conclusion: This might work for a home studio if you treat it very gingerly. But for professional use? No way. It's waaaaaaaaay too fragile. As others have mentioned, the price point is appealing; but, I now wish we'd saved up for the real deal. :-( Anybody wanna buy a used one??

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Excellent produit !!! Je me suis régalé sur la qualité sonore et tous les réglages qu'il faut pour le rendu. Bien suivre les indications pour ajouter des samples.

Prodotto di qualità a buon prezzo, pienamente soddisfatto

Not using the sounds but mainly as a trigger. Using it for my drum station so I can get some real beats into my DAW. Part of my small simple and effective set up. Split the signal for the trigger inputs so I could add two ROLAND V pads. Six triggers is amazing for the price.

Produit très beau, petit adapté MAIS les pads du dessus font les sons du dessous la sortie JAck ne fonctionne pas = obligé de sortir par la sortie casque... dommage