Alesis SamplePad Pro Review by Sweetwater Sound
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
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Whether you're adding on to your electronic drum kit, turning your acoustic kit into a hybrid setup, or looking for a lightweight electronic kit for grab-and-go gigs, you're going to dig the Alesis SamplePad Pro. This awesome electronic percussion pad starts off strong with six large dual-zone pads and a pair of raised dual-zone rims plus over 200 killer drum and percussion samples, but it gets even cooler when you consider all the great ways you can expand it to meet your needs. Extra trigger and pedal inputs let you turn the SamplePad Pro into a full kit, whereas SD storage lets you rock out with your own samples.
Join us as Nick D'Virgilio demonstrates the Alesis SamplePad Pro. This is one very easy to use pad unit that comes with eight dual-zone pads, 200+ of its own great sounds, the ability to add extra pads, and up to 32GB of your own sounds. Whether you are adding to your current electronic setup, adding electronics to you acoustic kit, or you need something compact and easy to use for your weekend gigs, the Alesis SamplePad Pro is a great piece of gear to look into.
The first thing you will notice is that the eight dual-zone pads are fun to play on and very sensitive. They trigger quickly and you can get from soft to loud smoothly. Also around each pad is a cool looking blue light that gets brighter each time the pad gets hit. If you want to use the SamplePad Pro as the core of your electronic set up then you are in luck because in the back of the unit are connections for a kick drum pedal, hi-hat pedal, and two other pads. That is a lot of connectivity for one small unit.
The SamplePad Pro comes with over 200 internal sounds and 10 drum kits that are all user programmable. What takes it over the top is that with a small SD card you can add up to 512 of your own custom sounds and 20 more drum kits. If you are in a band that uses backing tracks then you can have all of them easily loaded into the SamplePad Pro and trigger them right at your drum kit. That is a really nice feature.
To add icing on the cake, the SamplePad Pro also comes with MIDI and USB connectivity. You can load your own sounds directly from your computer if it does not have an SD card reader.
I encourage you to take a look at the Alesis SamplePad Pro. It can go from a simple electronic pad unit to a full blown electronic drum set up. It is very versatile, sounds great, and is really easy to use. Thanks for watching!
0:00 - Intro
1:19 - Alesis SamplePad Pro Features
2:50 - Alesis SamplePad Pro Demo
4:44 - Alesis SamplePad Pro Expandability
7:43 - Alesis SamplePad Pro Programming
12:19 - Thanks For Watching!
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Sweetwater where did you get your stand
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Sahdeep
Price please ?
DRUMMERS... THESE DRUMPADS ARE THE BEST INNOVATION EVER:
I've toured the world with mine (as Jazz Kit!) and it fits in my shoulder bag!! (I've used a Roland for 13 years! $250!)
People think these are a toy. No way. Saves 99.999999% of the HASSLE of drum kit.
Which Roland one do you have?
Explain your set up as a jazz kit
As a retiring musician of the last 6 decades I have heard hundreds of new drum technologies over time....Excellent demo Nick. This Alesis system sounds fabulous. Make me 30 yrs younger and I’ll travel the country for you with this unit. Hi to Nick H at Sweetwater
Would love to hear your stories. I bet you have a few!
@@geraldhartley I know these sound like a stretch…but I saw the Cream for $3.00 in high school auditorium, Ten Years After in a bowling alley, was at the Doors concert in 69 at Diner Key Auditorium when cops stormed the stage. Those crazy events launched my musical journey when I was 15-16 yrs old. Turning 70 real quick…too quick
@@knuckle47 Man that is awesome! What a time that must have been to be alive and young!! Well... technically I was alive and young then too! I was born in '64, but far to young to go to concerts! Haha!! I was barely out of diapers.
@@geraldhartley 1953 …come from a long line of guitar and mandolin players from the 1930’s and 40’s. I had a guitar in my hands at 6. My grandfather made sure I knew how to get started. Had a band in 1964 , Lord John and the Saints. Poor Drummer was killed at 13 by a car coming off of an exit ramp as he was walking home. Music took a whole new turn from the early Beatles covers to the Doors to Zeppelin, Hendrix , Cream and Allman Brothers. It was fun…lotta fun at times and too much fun on occasion. Still run back to jazz and standards but the arthritis is harder er to deal with. I don’t know how Bucky Pizzarelli did it but he’d managed to play expertly until his last days.
Nice memories …thanks Gerald
@@knuckle47 Good memories! My oldest brother is about your age. I've done some old harmony acoustic songs with my two older brothers here on my channel. You might have to check out some of our CSN covers. Look up "Hartley Brothers" and you might get a kick out of it. Cheers!
Thumbs up for Nick ! Has my respect and admiration for playing with Neal Morse and Genesis.
10:30 aight how about a doorslam and a boing!
I first saw this on UA-cam and I loved it instantly. Thank you for this amazing PAD.
Great demo! Thanks! Wow, this is reasonably priced. Nice!
This is the Best Review of a product - in the music space, I have ever seen man. He's like a talking manual. Thank You.
I have one of these now. Definitely a worthy pickup
NIce, I just got mine. Can't wait to try it out!!
Nice ending, Nick is great man, my fav drum reviewer!
Great clear product explanation. Gosh you're so good. Subbed
0:55 _which i'll get into you with_
Josh Walker 😂😂 gold
Hahaha
Boom shakka
Please don’t put your output into my input! 😭
@@tristancoyote1131 oh ma lord 😂😂😂
Very good review! Thank you for sharing this!
Can you loop a rhythm you play as in the Roland Octopad? This is very essential for live performances if you are a one man band like myself.
I bought this and it was AMAZING it changes tunes which is awesome
00:06:55 thats so dope what a great demonstration of its ability
OMG ITS NICK!!! spocksbeard!
The question i have is, if i use drum kits i have from plug-ins with my DAW, can i just use those sounds like i would with a midi controller? Simple click and play?
Hi, Ariel. You would absolutely be able to use this controller to trigger virtual instruments in a DAW. You would just need to connect the unit to the computer via USB or to a MIDI interface to get the MIDI information into the computer.
Thanks for your interest!
Mike Wuchter, Sweetwater Sale Engineer, (800) 222-4700 ext. 1789, michael_wuchter@sweetwater.com
What would I need to connect this into my zoom r8 studio?
Nick, love your playing on all KG stuff, so great, and not a bad Jon Anderson vocal on Siberian K. YES should have gotten YOU to do double duty.
Nice demo! Thank a lot!
so sick very excited to get one myself
Thanks for the review ;)
I've had a instrument like this, sounds and looks already amazing. Sure i'l need something like this in the future :o
Don't buy this one. Trust me, me and my cousin got one each last week. My pad stopped triggering and it triggers the pad next to it. My cousins unit doesn't even power on anymore. I'd save your money and get something better.
@@jecky82 Thank you , you saved me.
@@jecky82what do you recommend then?
Super nice sympatic presentation! Thank you!
Hi, first of all I'd like to thank you for this video which not only motivated me to buy one of these about a year ago but also helped me a great deal when I had to program the kit so I could load the sounds of my SD card in it. I managed to make good use of it without any stand but now I feel limited and need more space for my arms to move and hit the pads proparly. I was advised to use a multipad stand but I see you're using a snare stand in this demonstration. Can you tell me what kind of stand you used and if you have any advise regarding this (angle of the pad, height etc. ) ?
i loved the end of this video with the crowd applause and waving ahha . 100% want to get one of these! I prefer the idea of big pads I can hit with anything rather than tiny finger pads most controllers have..and with this i could just practice anywhere record my sessions into loops which i can then arrange in my daw.. this is perfect for what I need! and can do live amen drumming!
can you use imported sounds from an SD when in "Layer A/B" Mode? and can you create several "Layer A/B" presets?
Been nice to have seen the velocity setting being used to cross-switch the 2 voices that can be assigned to a pad at different velocity levels and velocity overlaps. I've had a question that I can't get answered anywhere regarding the sample crossfading, and that is: when the velocity range overlaps between the 2 samples assigned to one pad, does the lower sample fade out at the end of the overlap and, conversely, the upper sample fade in at the beginning of the overlap or do the sample volumes stay the same and the appropriate sample simply cuts out when out of it's range...? Capiche? I have the sample rack pro and what I'm hearing is a cut off, not a fade in or out. This is not good if it is the case and I really wish Alesis would fix it with an update. Thanks for the video.
That what mode you have each pad set it. They are set to cut off
cool ive been looking for a drum pad for a while!
Yeah... "dual zone" doesn't mean "layered".
Both your site description, the text here AND the gentleman on the video are misleading the customer when they use this term.
"Dual zone" means that a different areas of a specific pad will trigger different sounds when hit. For example, a cymbal pad; hit the face: one sound. Hit the edge: a different sound.
These pads are "layered". You can assign (2) sounds to each pad, but which one is triggered depends on velocity, not area hit. Light hit: one sound (or both). Hard hit: another (or both).
In short, these are SINGLE zone pads. All of them. It even says so in the product manual.
An educated consumer is your best customer, Sweetwater.
Blogspierre They probably made the Users guide universal, because, Dual zone are for Sample Rack Rim and Head 2 sound velocity switch sound each Zone, 4 sound per input trigger, and Hihat 16 sound velocity switch sound with SD card.
With SD card you can store up to 89 kit not 20..for both Sample pad pro and Sample Rack.
Gibberish. If the pad has ONE area, it's single zone. If it has 2 areas, it's dual-zone.
The manual is specific to this one device, and it says "single-zone pads".
Blogspierre dual layer is a better description...with velocity settings
CUSTERDOME An educated consumer is your best customer 👍🙃
It is a amazing drum instrument its cool its great sound responding sd cards usb setting easy operating this is awesome one
It's not dual zone pads, its dual tone or sounds at the same time on a pad. That's not the same as layered sounds.
Dual zone would be different sounds hitting a different part of the pad. Another review said that pad 1 does support dual zone for rim and center hits of dual trigger pads.
Best ending Sweetwater have ever done.
nice demo, thanks.
GravyDaveNewson Thanks for watching!
+D Angelo Bustell #loading--3% looks like a standard snare stand...
Can you guys teach us how to set up an HH trigger so that it links to a pad (ie Pad #7) so that it gives that pad the open/close effect? As of now, they act like 2 separate triggers and don't seem to be linked.
Can you record patterns and playback? And change tempo?
How did you make the loops you play about 5:25 into the video??
Need this in the future
can this connect to a DJ mixer (via RCA) into one of its channels to use while DJ'ing? such as the DJM-800 or 900? Would really appreciate any insight, thank you in advance!
Yes. You will need a 1/4 to RCA Cable set. The Alesis unit is Line level output, so you can plug it into any of your 800's "Line Level" inputs. Do NOT use the Phono inputs.
anything can connect to anything with a $5 adapter
That first 13 u nailed it
I am gone😮
thank you so much for doing this video :) just wondering but where did you get the stand from? thank you :)
Is it possible to connect it to a synthesiser and let it play along with a sequencer?
Hey man.....is there a cut-off to the length of a sample. Like, could I trigger a 3-minute sample with a single hit?
L.A.W. there is no limit except with your software on your computer.
@@arando4359 what computer ? You upload sounds from sd card. The question is : Can you play the full lenght of a track sample (Like 5 minutes) after 1 hit , like backing tracks. Because in reviews on Amazon dudes are saying you can only upload sounds that are few seconds long.
if i conect 2 of them in ableton live does it recognise that there are 2 different controllers
Is mayonnaise one of the instrument sounds offered ?
yeah but u gotta bring ur own mayo and it has to be home made.
Patrick the star
Patrick: don’t ask that until squidward answers my question
*forcefully elbows the people who make drum samples*
Thanks, Nick!
Well, if I set a memory WAV sample in an Octabe, save it, get out the memory or pad it, and then turn on or off the memory again, will I get back the sample or sound I left in the Octabe or will I have to rebuild it?
very good, I understand that only brings 10 internal kits. And how many kits can be created or increased?
I have an SPD-SX and it brings 100 kits, I await your answer, regards
wondering if you can set a tempo if you have a tambourine loop going?
Nice looking sample pad
Alesas suppet
Does this pad have metronome monitoring like the SPD?
What stand were you using for the SamplePad in your setup here? It looks like a snare stand but if you remember the model or brand of it, that would help me out so much! Cheers!
How do you put Modern R&B (Bryson tiller, Sofi de la Torre, Blackbear) type sounds on this ?
What is the type of drum stick to use with it, nylon or simply wooden drum stick ?
where can i get that stand
Melhor video sobre o pad!!
Can you use it to trigger loops of songs? Verse, Chorus, Bridge.
what is the name of the stand you are using?
This is awesome thank you
The kit looks cool.I have one concern however.Adding a sample to pad a dn browsing 500 samples by scrolling one by one could be biggest pain here.
I the "trigger mode" compatible with Ddrums kick triggers? Thanks!
Hi, thanks foe the video, but how can I record it using it with ignite or ableton live 9?
hi.there, does it have indian drums too? for example tabla or dolak.sound? tq
can you use this as a midi controller with usb?
Can you create loops on it? That's what i want to do.
Man, I want that loop at 5:35. It sounds awesome.
Chris Jones i’m quite sure it’s from a kontakt library called Damage. At least very similar.
I need this!
Holy Mackinaw! Pretty cool.
whats the high kick pedal for this one?I live in an apartment and I wanna know if its too noisy, thanks
I would like to know if it is good for percussion as congas for cumbia
hahaha... i loved "your sounds" .... doesnt sound anything like a kontakt librarie!!! .... Still a nice demo!!! but it would be better with some editor software!!!
Is it possible to use drum triggers, So you can make a drum hybrid?
The ending is the best 👌
Amazing product and hilarious video lol
Mauricio Arevalo arent u watching..i have one of this rn
only tell me When we change the preset to next or back , it took some seconds like 3 seconds or so. is it true ? how much seconds it takes ?
I have a sample pad, it takes 3 seconds to load the next preset.
Can it be used to trigger sounds in a DAW?
ketal my recommended the alesis battery is good pra sample or buy one of those
hi my Alexis pro pad,the kick,snare, toms sections are not responding.
Its taking 3,4 seconds of pause while changing from kit to kit.
I Did try wave loops but twas not worked.
Can someone assist me?
Thanks for the review, but just one question. Is this as good as/better than the Roland SPD-SX?
the spd-sx is a much better sample pad
wow so creative...... it's easy as well ey mahnnn really like it
pretty sweet i think i need one
Is it use for drum looping like Roland SPD - SX?
Id like to try this for just as my addictive drums midi controler to input my drum parts in
+917021439836iloilo
My question is; it seems as if the snare & bass drum pads are set up for a left handed drummer I am right handed and would prefer them to be switched is that possible if so I would by one. thank you for your help
My guess is YOU decide what sound goes on which pad. So if you want your bass drum pad to be on the far right at the top, middle or bottom, then you program it that way.
Yes you can switch the sounds on the pads how ever you want.
Can you use this in a drum rack in ableton? if so how?
Hey, love that elephant sound. I'm gonna use it for my next hit tune called "'C'mon and do the Elephant Strut"
What caliber bullets do the Machine Gun samples take?
rajan kiran
cast390 .357
*insert white guy blinking gif*
An excellent and very detailed review. Thank you.
Could I hook this up to a loop pedal on a normal guitar amp
I need this one
You say 200 plus sounds how dose one find those sounds in the unit and what kind are they ?
How well does it do with buzz rolls though?
Would I be able to add a loop pedal to it? I want to record 4 or 8 measures of drum pattern and loop it while I play guitar over the custom beat i created. Thanks for any advice you have.
How do you add sounds? Where do you download from?
I am planning to buy one for myself. Do you think the Yamaha KU100 Kick pedal is compatible for it. Thank you in advance
how do I access the 200 sounds? i can only get the 10 kits
I want to learn it how can I initiate my learning at my home?
hi..can you tell me kick pedal i would need for the alesis percussion pad(not the sample version)..thank u.