Alesis Sample Pad Pro Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 4 січ 2018
- In this video I show you how to setup the Alesis sample pad pro. If you want to import samples, adjust cross talk, and plug in pads, this video is for you.
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Thank you so much! You saved me! I'm at a gig and this pad was brought. Was trying to figure out how to use one pad for hihat close/open.
For those searching for this, go to 8:11
Great tutorial. I have a few additions.
1) COPY KIT is ALMOST the only way to create a NEW KIT. All new kits are created on the SD Card. No SD Card, NO NEW KIT. Once it's copied, change the pad sounds to what you want on the new kit, and SAVE.
1.A) An option to #1 above, You can put your SD Card in your computer and copy / paste .KIT files (inside the KIT older) but you need to rename the copy. File name is limited to 8 characters. (See #4 below). The only way to get new sounds assigned to this new kit is through the Alesis Sample Pad Menu. This allows you to quickly create as many new kits as you want but you will still have to edit the sounds assigned to the kit on the Sample Pad.
2) You can't say it enough with this system, SAVE AND SAVE OFTEN!!!
3) BE AWARE that it will take time for each kit to load every single time you go to it and the entire kit must load before any pad will respond. You and your group need to know that it may take a few seconds between songs before you can kick of a starting loop.
4) You can change the name of your created Kits. With your SD Card in your computer, open the folder named "KITS". You will see files such as USER_001.KIT. You can change the USER_001 portion to whatever you want, with no special characters (except _), no spaces, and it CANNOT be more than or less than 8 characters before ".KIT". For example, I use a certain kit for our cover song by Stone Sour. I renamed USER_001.KIT to STONSOUR.KIT. The kit will still be named "KIT 11" in the left corner of the Alesis screen, but the center top of the screen shows "STONSOUR" (The File Name) . As I mentioned in #3 above, it takes about 20 seconds for all 8 of my custom sound files to load to this kit.
5) SUGGESTION: Only keep sound files you need on your SD Card. The more files on the card, the longer it takes to sort through them when setting up a new kit. Also, I've noticed having numerous unused files on the SD Card tremendously slows down the loading of my saved kits .
Hope this helps some of you out!
How long is kit loading? I have small Alesis Sample Pad and it loads kit so long that i can't use several kits on gig.
Helpful!!! Thanks!
Thanks!! Which hithat pedal can I buy that works properly on the sample pro?
@@matiasespinosa I'm Using the AlesisDM from a pad set that I have. They are about $40 used. You have to assign the pads correctly and also make sure the pad ist set to HAT as in the above tutorial. It's not plug and play.
Thanks Sean, very helpful
This was the answer to my prayer. Thank you for giving a clearly thought out and extremely informative tutorial. You wasted no time answering every question I had and even some I didn't have. Thanks.
Its immeasurable how much time this saved me. I paused about 20 times to take notes. Definitely vital info. Thanks!
Excellent tutorial. I just picked one of these up and wanted to see how do load samples. Thank you for this!
Excellent video! Very professional and good quality. You went quick and got right to all of the questions that I had. Great job!
Thanks Josh! I work for 7 hours on this video, glad you enjoyed it :D
Thank you so much for this tutorial man! Super helpful and I’m definitely going to refer back to this every single time I have a question!
Thank you for taking the time out to make this in-depth video very informative.
Glad it was helpful!
You are the absolute best. Just got one and this helps so much. 🤘🏼
Awesome work man. Nailed it! I've owned mine for nearly 3 years and it has done the job perfectly for me and my previous bands. The load times can be frustrating but its perfect for the price (half the price of the SPD-SX, but has all the features I'd ever use!).
Thanks dude!
Can loops can be synced to tempo?
Best tutorial on this unit.Thanks!
Thanks man. Great overview.
Awesome, thank you! I couldn't figure out how to create additional user kits until now.
Glad it helped!
Looks cool, planning to use this with Reaper and Addictive Drums 2
Dude, I'm so new to samplepads and this side of music when it comes to sampling so thank you so much for this it makes so much more sense already
Thanks Laila! Glad the video helped :)
Excellent video Justine. I'll just add that the Alesis Sample Rack which was release the same time as the Sample Pad Pro has exactly the same functionality, menu items and buttons etc. The difference of course is that it has no pads. Instead has a whole kit worth of inputs on the back. Kick, Snare, 3 toms crashes, ride etc..
Great tutorial. I'm using this video to evaluate the product for a different purpose than most here. I want to use it to trigger EZ Drummer 2 samples for recording in Pro Tools. I need to be able to assign the Midi Note number in EZD2 for the sound that I want to the Pad I want on the Alesis. I can see from the option on this video that this is easy enough to do. Basically I just need nothing fancy big assignable pads for EZD2, this looks like a great solution for me. Thanks!
Cheers Justin, I am looking for a pad to add to my Cajon street set :D
Will check out the complete tutorial tonight.
Greets from Lisbon :D
Thanks bro, super helpful.
Very Helpful!!!!
Thank You!!!!
Thank you very much .very helpful info,👍
Thanks heaps for this walkthru
probably getting one of these soon
Thanks for the review. A question, is possible to create loops with the internal or card samples? Like the phrase maker from Roland. Thanks in advance!
Hey, is there a way to send metronome sound only to headphones, while all backings/samples are running through the output channels? Thank you! 🙏
This is an incredible video, very helpful!!!
great review. can you connect laptop via usb and use say ezdrummer for part of the pads and stock sounds for others? thanks
hí, friend! how are you? thanks for The review!
have you ever plug the ddrum red shot trigger or another trigger in one of The triggers inputs in the back off the sample pad? it Works?
Great Tutorial! How can I use it for live looping percussion. Does the drum pad have inside looper?
What would be the best cymbal stand to buy and would I need anything else besides that and the module mount? I really appreciate your help!
Thanks for the tutorial! Do you know if this can be used for backing tracks with a metronome routed to headphones only like the SPD-SX?
Hey, how would I go about looping a live drum beat on the pad, to which I can then play guitar and sing to? What is the best way to do this, Ableton live maybe, or can it be done with out?
Can I use this to trigger a loop (backing track) from an SD card on any pad, use for a metronome, and trigger a bass drum at the same time, or would one cut the other out? I'm looking to use additional guitar layer, effects, and backing tracks for practice and live setting where I can put everything on an SD card and trigger it via pad station while I'm playing drums, and using a DigiTech JamMan to record guitar loops is one of the things we use, but we're looking to down size equipment, and with it's SD card, something like this would be great if it can do what I'm looking for.
excellent work
Thanks!
very good, if 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 hope your answer.
Thanks!! Which hithat pedal can I buy that works properly on the sample pro?
Hey Jason,
I have a question. I just bought a Samplepad Pro and was wondering if I can use a cable spliter on Pad 1 dual to attach two single-zone pads instead of a dual-zone pad. Since with a dual-zone you can assign different instrument to each zone, being able to use a splitter would give me the ability to use two single-zone pads thus bringing the total pads to 5 pads. Would it need a special cable like the ones use with Roland pads or just a regular stereo to mono splitter.
Good video! I just purchased a Pad and I'm having some problems getting my own Samples/Loops into the unit. Could you please get me a tip on that I would appreciate it.....
can we trigger backing tracks and clicks with this unit? your reply would be appreciated. thank you!
THANK YOU !!!!!
I've had this for over a year and I have no idea how to use it.....
Can I have a sound like a thunder storm, or some whale sounds ? I want that in the background in songs I have.
but I really need help walking through it.
This video is really going to help me, but I'm sure I'll need more help...... where do you (me) find sounds to put on the SD card ?
I have SOOOOO MANY questions, Haha.
Thanks for uploading this brother 👍👍 You rock.
Thanks for this
Glad you liked it!
65 Drums it help me alot with mine ( sample pad 4)
Please review how to set up hihat use hihat pedals as a switch or trigger?
How well does it play compared to the Yamaha DD-75
Whether it is good for live performance?
I don't play with a click live (for certain reasons) but I'm not a drumcomputer xD. It's always possible that during a song I shift a few bpm. If I'd want to trigger a tambourine loop at the end of a song. But I'm not sure that I'm in the same tempo as the loop, would it be possible to use one of the pads as a tap in to set the loop bpm?
Great video! I just bought one but I'm having trouble loading loops and samples? You show SD card slot and USB menu on Pad screen but you don't explain how to load it on a pad could you break that down I would really appreciate it 👍
BTW, You have a new subscriber buddy 👍
Hey Justin, On the alesis pad pro. I was wondering is there a way to make your hihat pedal work with a pad that you have a hihat setting on? In other words, when I connect the Alesis hihat pedal and have the switch to variable, I can get the hihat sound, click up and down but I can't control a pad that has a hihat on it open and close. Any advise?
Hello, Thanks for the video.
I connected pedals to my Samplepad but they do not sound. Any idea what it might be? I would be really thankful.
Awesome Video
Thanks!
I have an Alesis DM10 studio electric drum kit, how do i hook the Alesis SamplePad Pro to the drum module? I want to use the SamplePad (with the internal sounds) as extra pads with my kit.
Hello there. I have an Alesis Nitro mesh kit and I would like to use the kick pad/pedal and hi-hat to my Alesis Sample Pad Pro. The kick pad worked (used a mono 1/4 in cable). How do I plug-in the hi-hat and pedal to the sample pad pro? I think I am missing something... appreciate your help
Will the loops be synced to the tempo?
I’m using an SD card and having latency issues.
I’ve turned the sensitivity all the way up and using a new Roland RT-30K kick trigger. The latency is not terrible, but it is noticeable.
I think it may be the sample file. Any help would be appreciated! 🙏🏻🥁🤘🏻
I really want a drum sampler that can do live looping, the same way a guitarist can use a loop pedal to perform live. Can this sampler do this or is there a hook up to add to make that happen? or is there another drum sampler that does do this?
Will it loop ? For how long ?
How do I loop a build in sound? Like for an example if I tap on the cowbell sound, how can I loop the cowbell sound so I don’t have to click on the cowbell sound every time I want a cowbell sound and it can just play continually.
hi thanks for taking the time to teach; could you help me, one of the boxes does not work, number eight does not sound, could you tell me why please ?????
Great tutorial my challenge is finding sample sounds specifically looking for syndrum sounds like they used on the Bad Company albums anyone have any suggestions?
How do you name kit? Is the kit saved to the card?
Is there a way to get all of the multistrike sounds onto a card that this machine will use?
i canot find what velocity curves r reponsbly from 1-8. linear, hybrid or what. can u find it.tnx.
Can this be used as a drum set for small gigs?
Where can you get kits to load on your SD CARD. I'm looking for some Bruno Mars samples and chimes samples. Thanks.
Any chance this can be hooked up to the Nitro Mesh kit?
This was a very useful tutorial. I do have a few questions. You walked through setting a pad to CLK in order to assign the metronome tempo, and you also talked about setting up the metronome to start and stop from a foot switch. QUESTION 1: When using the metronome, is it possible to bias its output to one of the channels and not have it output through both? The thought would be to use either the left or right channel to transmit the samples on the pads, and the other channel to transmit the metronome. QUESTION 2: When using CLK on a pad, is there an indication of the tempo that is set? QUESTION 3: Can the metronome on/off be triggered from a pad? What I'm hoping to do is use the controller to set a tempo from the pad, turn it on/off from a foot pedal or pad, and transmit the click to the rest of the band through one of the channels. Any thoughts you have would be appreciated.
I just bought one and I'm struggling with the metronome going through the main output..
.did you solved this ?
Can we create patches in Alesis sample pad pro? Like we can create in Roland spd?....
a great tutorial, Justin!
Thanks John!
Question can i use my mpc one as a drum module through midi
Can I run backing tracks with it? The roland spd sx is way too out of my Budget
Is the sample pad 4 simillar to this one
Such a great and engaging video tutorial that I decided to buy this. However, I've been stuck for days with setting up Hi Hat with no results. Can you please make a detailed video on how to install Hi Hat for this? I'm so grateful !
Thank you, wish you Health and Happiness!
I have the same issue, and it's kinda frustrating.
I assigned one pad located in the upper right to open hat sound.
With the hi-hat pedal plugged into the back of the unit selected variable and pedal is pressed, assigned for a closed hat.
But when I pressed the pedal and hit the pad to where the open hat is assigned, same open hat sound am hearing.
Hello, is there any way to upload new files into the sample pad pro without a SD card?
Hello, I don't know if I'm doing something wrong but I've issues to add and use samples from kit 12 on. Everything works as expected on kit 11, which is the user kit, but it doesn't work on other kits. Any idea? I'm quite disappointed, it feels cheap, the reaction of the pads ain't so good...... maybe you can help out on that.
Do you know how to make it so my samples play at the same volume, regardless of how hard I hit them? I want to eliminated the velocity function.
Does this pad have 808 samples? The big low booooooms?
How can I connect the samplepad pro into garageband on my macbook? I can't hear the internal sounds at all.
hello a question how can I configure oh activate the loop on the battery alesis samplepad pro
Damn, you teach really well! You should put up a course or something.
The Rim Trigger on my Roland PD-8 Dual-Trigger Pad gives no signal when I connect it to my Alesis SamplePad Pro --> connection Pad 1 rear panel is dual-zone [EXT 1A (head) and EXT 1B (rim)]. I use the stereo connection cable and the SamplePad Pro recognizes EXT 1A with this pad, but not EXT 1B. Could it be that my SamplePad Pro settings are not adapted to use an additional Roland PD-8 or is it because the PD-8 Head Trigger works but the Rim Trigger does not work? Best Regards.
Hello, it was to know if the low volume of the SPP in its outputs L and R is common and if anyone has connected a triggers module and has noticed that the volume of the module exceeds the volume of the pads, I love this device but I It bothers this little defect, someone who has solved
How can I loop a cowbell pattern like on Honky Honk Woman. Internal CB only loops 1 hit over and over??
hi i need sd card with new drum sounds 32 gb capacity for alesis sample pad pro can you send me how to order please plz thank you
Hello, it was to know if the low volume of the SPP in its outputs L and R is common and if anyone has connected a triggers module and has noticed that the volume of the module exceeds the volume of the pads, I love this device but I It bothers this little defect, someone who has solved????
is it safe to update alexis sample pad pro with out a sd card
How do you power it...
I need to know what make and type sdhc card to use with the sample pad pro thanks mine is arriving tomorrow...
I don't own this anymore, so I don't have that information unfortunately. I think most SD cards should work though
You can't switch the samples on different pads? I wanna have the snare on the right and the kick on the left but they're crooked :(
could you please tell me how to backup all my data
Any udates?
Bro the sample pad is awesome but the problem is the loading of the samples sound when you change the kit example kit 11 to kit 12 it takes time how make it fast in loading the sounds for example the changes of kit i want you to help me how
Is it better saving up the money and buying the Alesis multipad?
The Strike multiple? Yes it’s way better
How to import sound from synthesizer to alesis drumpad pro?
Where can I get sounds to load on my SD card.
I'm planning to buy this for my friend who is converting his accoustic drumset to an electronic one.
Sweet
Where can you download the file? #Thank You
Slt j'aimrai bien s'avoir comment fair pour programmer pedal hi hat.
Et mrc
how to format firmware of 2018 to Alessis Sample Pro???
I'm having trouble trying to set the tempo of my clap noise loop. I followed your instructions but no luck.
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.
Yeah I'm wondering the same thing!
Hi, did you had any luck linking your hihat to one of the pads?
Which HH trigger is everybody using?
@@Palaboy0725 Not yet and no one has been able to help me. I've contact Alesis several times through emails, facebook messenger, etc. I've also posted this issue in forums and Facebook groups. No luck.
@@drastic209562 we got the Alesis RealHat Pedal from amazon.
Como faço para colocar nome nós kit?