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I'm new as a drummer to the electronic aspect of percussion. I was looking for a machine that was under the $600-$700 price tag but gave me basic functionality in terms of the types of sounds percussion/basic drum set that sounded good and gave good response from the pads. This unit exceeds that expectation and then some. I expect as I get deeper into the machine I'll discover more uses for it and hopefully it will continue to exceed expectations at $299 for the unit.

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This unit has been exactly what i need in function and form. 3 months old and no issues. Easy to use and a treat to play.

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If you are using this to control VST instruments in a DAW you can't go wrong with this. I am using it with Steven Slate Drums plugin and it is great. There are some cons to the unit, the first being crosstalk, from what I can tell every unit is going to have different crosstalk so its a shot in the dark if the crosstalk on another unit will be worse, but for me it was just a matter of fiddling with the sensitivity, and since I'm controlling midi signals its not a big deal anyway because I can edit out ghost hits. definitely a good unit for how I'm using it, and its the only unit with this many pads and inputs at this price range

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I have been using this machine on the road for close to 2 years now. i use both stock and loaded sounds and both work great. only complaint is that is it a little noisey on the line side. not much but its there. noise gate fixes this. all and all i have had no problem with this and consider it as important as my snare drum.

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The price and feature set looked good but from the moment I unpacked it build quality became a concern. I probably could have been happy until needing to upgrade, but cross talk between pads was so bad (especially the top two) that I couldn't imagine using the Sample Pad Pro in a performance. It might work fine for a simple trigger device. The power switch is very light weight and doesn't have a solid on/off action.You have to hold it in for an undetermined period before it powers up. No mention of this in the very sparse, but translation rich, manual. ZZzounds has been outstanding to work with on the return. Replaced it with the DTX Multii12 whhich, even at almost twice the price, looks like it will be a much better value.

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Well, you get what you pay for. First complaint...no hand clap sound. Seriously? Loads of “Indian”, vocal counting and glottal noises, plus a ton of pitched marimba, but no clap???Second, even with the volume all the way up, the output is very low. Some sounds won’t allow you to increase the volume to equal other sounds. The electronic toms in particular are VERY low volume.Weirdly, external pads trigger louder than the units pads, and no amount of futzing fixes this. I guess for $320, what do you want...I’m sending it back though. Very disappointing. It takes forever to load kits.

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It was a fun product while it lasted, but at a price point of $299 I expected it would last longer than one year. When I reached out to Alesis, their customer service member told me to just pay someone to get it fixed since it had just passed their one-year-warranty.

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I waited over a year to purchase this unit. I previously owned a Percussion Pad and it was a durable unit with great stock sounds. I expected the same quality with the Sample Pad Pro. What a disappointment. The Software started wigging out almost Immediately and the unit went out completely after about an hour. Same with the second unit. Very Unsatisfied. If you want a good working unit try an Octopad.

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This pad is easy to use and program, but it doesn't turn off and sometimes wont turn on. I am not happy with this.

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