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Sampling on a Budget? Alesis SamplePad Pro Review!

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This is a review of the Alesis SamplePad Pro drum sample pad. Summary: A great introduction to using a sampler as part of your drum set-up. Sample load time is horrifically slow and the interface is awful but YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR! Don't expect the features and performance of a unit that's double the price. Fine for home studio or occasional live use for triggering the odd sample here and there.
Alesis SamplePad Pro:
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Alesis Universal Module Mount for SamplePad
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Full specs:
Support for 16-bit mono or stereo .WAV samples
Support for 48K, 44.1K, 32K, 22.05K & 11.025K samples
Max 48MB of samples per bank / kit
8 dual zone isolated rubber pads
Active blue LED pad illumination
2 additional drum pad inputs
Kick Pedal input; selectable switch or trigger mode
Hi-Hat pedal input; selectable switch or variable mode
200+ built-in drum, cymbal, and percussion sounds
10 ready-to-play drum kits
Add new sounds via SD Card (SD Card not included)
Save up to 512 sounds and 20 kits per 32GB SD card
MIDI In and Out ports
USB port for computer connectivity
1/4" stereo outputs (L, R)
1/4" headphone output with volume control
1/8" stereo aux input with level control
System footswitch jack
Drum 101 - online drum lessons for absolute beginners: drum101.com
Free drumming resources at: beginnerdrums.uk
Andy Mac Farms (was Andy Mac Drums: / andymacdrums
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20 авг 2024

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@DMStern 3 года назад

The velocity sensitivity is probably intended to be used with layers, having different samples triggered depending on how hard you hit the pad.

@joeruder 2 года назад

actually a lot of what he did in this review answered questions I have. You can find tons of 'reviews' out there where ALL they do is play some beats or run through all the samples. Good job on this, thanks!

@AlOne-xg6dv 3 года назад

Thank you. I just ordered one and did not know anything about it. It's a good start for discovering it. Waiting for the delivery next week. Clear explainations for a complete beginner.

@sabresvision.180 2 года назад

I bought this device 3 years ago to use in a live hybrid set up. I only needed it for one run of shows & it's been in my closet ever since. You've shown me there are so so many more ways I could be utilizing this tool. (i.e. All stop/mute groups)

@dan.kuxhaus 3 месяца назад

Excellent video! Really informative and it provided a lot of info I wanted to know. Do you have an idea about the maximum size/duration a sample must be?

@parasiteunit 2 года назад

Just got one. TBH the button issue is a logical necessity. An enter button is a lot more likely to be caught - and if you were about to drop into a sub menu that would stop sounds, just needing you to press enter - well you can see where this is going.... The simplicity of the USB is just such a refreshing thing. Kind of irritating they used 16bit as opposed to 24, but again - sensible choice. 16bit is 50% less than 24bit. You're using SD card as your primary source. It is slow for data transfers (connect a SSD to USB and do a 8gb file transfer - then do the same thing with an SD card... Shocker I tell ya). The workaround for big samples is speed them up by +4 before you drop them in and pitching it down by the same amount when in the machine... You loose a bit of quality, but at 44.1khz - not a huge issue.

@sabresvision.180 2 года назад

WOW Thanks for the creative workaround!!! Your speed suggestion just saved me a ton of time & headache. Do you use Alesis' Sample Converter Utility?

@parasiteunit 2 года назад

@@sabresvision.180 no need, Audacity is a Swiss army knife of an audio tool... Even converts to 16 bit directly and I can batch convert a bunch of samples directly. Just convert and drop directly via USB. So simple!

@sabresvision.180 2 года назад

@@parasiteunit Excellent , glad to hear it. I wasn't aware the Alesis utility existed until today . I thought maybe i've been missing out on something

@suniso370 3 года назад

Is this a good device for a guitar player who would like to play parts like a drummer would, instead of playing them on a keyboard or drawing midi, and learn a bit about drumming along the way? I would primarily use kontakt libraries.

@mickw5881 3 года назад

Hi ,could you tell me what software you use to download the samples from songs ..cheers mick

@TheBbtlegit 2 года назад

Where did you get your Bruno Mars samples from. And what platform did you get most of your samples from.

@alexbecerra3082 10 месяцев назад

I want to know if there's a way on how to program congas and cowbell together so when you play a specific rhythm congas and cowbell play automatically as well, I'm trying to figure it out

@estradacommusica2413 3 года назад

Very good.

@awh79 Год назад

Hey! Does this unit play complete backing tracks? Like 5 min samples? Thanks!

@TheBbtlegit 2 года назад

Can you create your sample by plugging in your phone to the aux jack.

@rolffriedrichwitte 2 года назад

All i understand,is to use this Stopp Buttom😏😆

@squashouse 3 года назад

I ordered one of these and 3 of the pads didn’t work out the box... absolute nightmare

@parasiteunit 2 года назад

I've just dropped a whole chunk of samples directly via USB using the import files and export multiple option in Audacity... Specified the correct sample rate when exporting (16bit 44.1khz) and it was literally a 5 minute job 👍

@TheBbtlegit 2 года назад

Where can I go to load sounds on an SD card.

@fidenciogomez2368 3 года назад

It lags due to the how big the sample file is

@JohnCarrano 3 года назад

if you were to use a full song length sample (Like a keyboard track) can it provide a click track in the drummers headphones?

@BeginnerDrums 3 года назад

I don't think you can do it as a separate output to the L/R but I think you could send a mono L signal to front of house and mono R click to drummer. Haven't tried though!