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Average rating:
3.5 out of 5
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It is excellent however you cannot bang on it as it is made of light metal tubing and plastic clamps. Sounds are just fine, these people who go on about the xtra reverb added and the cymbals being to phony do not have a clue, if you know how to play gently without banging and beating the pad triggers and hardware breaking all of this you will love it. Good for straight ahead beats, trim the fat, punk, industrial, rock n roll non-Slayer like drumming(It is to lightweight for that) you will be happy. It's a beautiful thing. For those who said the added reverb and cymbals are bad sounding are wrong I am pretty critical and they passed as long as you dont over do it. However $499 is to much for this dm5 module with drum set. Search for a better deal, way better deals are out there, be patient keep looking. As for beginners it is perfect, Let your teacher know what you have bought the dm5 module with drum set and ask him to teach you how to rock out convincingly without banging and playing to hard, your heaviest hit has to be controlled by the light weight limits of the trigger pads and light weight hardware.
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ABSOLUE JUNK The sounds are actually fairly decent and easy to configure, however, I have a problem using the hi-hat trigger features of the module, I can open and close the hithat with the pedal, but as soon as i hit any drums i have to hit the hit hat again to allow me to use the pedal. Also the unit freezes up every five minutes or so. alesis answer it to reset and reinitialize the unit which resets all of the features. hardly a solution i want after hours of programming and tweaking.
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I got the DM5 a few months ago and must say it's a great sampler. Some of the drums and cymbals are cheese, but then again even some of the higher priced moduels have cheese sounds.. The ease and use is good and a easy to read instruction booklet is choice. I wouldn't recommend using this module for a actual set, but for various trigger pads around your acoustic set this thing is top choice.
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In the electronic percussion era the DM5 is holding its own and then some. There is always complaints of feel and sound. As for the DM5 there are no complaints from me for example the V-curve allowes you to cut back per pad level so you can used those ghost notes, and all so the random sounds it provids of multiple notes and levels per pad. There are better modules out there but for the money compared to its abilitys there is no comparison.
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I've used various drum machines. Sadly the DM5 gets the thumbs down, it sound like pots and pans.
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