Is Roland spd-20 worth $350 more than Alesis Performance pad

Abery Clark · 26th February 2008

Please give experiences with either of these two units

tonymission · 10th March 2008

im curious as well... dont really care about the comparison... just the roland.

i want to use it to midi trigger MPCs/ASR-10 especially... as much live feel as i can get in the studio. how's the velocity sensitivity ... how's the midi implementation? i understand that i can assign each pad to individual midi chans to trigger/sequence multiple hits/tracks at once?

drum nut · 10th March 2008

I use the roland playing live - the alesis won't loop as far as i know, also no internal sounds - (jeez how they date)

. with the roland i can toggle loops in my sampler on and off with one pad.

26th February 2008	#1
Abery Clark Gear maniac Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 167 Thread Starter	Is Roland spd-20 worth $350 more than Alesis Performance pad Please give experiences with either of these two units

Thread Tools	Search this Thread
Show Printable Version Email this Page	Search this Thread: Advanced Search

10th March 2008	#2
tonymission Lives for gear Joined: Feb 2008 Location: ATL / Zone 3 / West End Posts: 1,173	im curious as well... dont really care about the comparison... just the roland. i want to use it to midi trigger MPCs/ASR-10 especially... as much live feel as i can get in the studio. how's the velocity sensitivity ... how's the midi implementation? i understand that i can assign each pad to individual midi chans to trigger/sequence multiple hits/tracks at once?

10th March 2008	#3
drum nut Gear interested Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 12	I use the roland playing live - the alesis won't loop as far as i know, also no internal sounds - (jeez how they date) . with the roland i can toggle loops in my sampler on and off with one pad.