LEKATO Percussion Sample Pad, Electric Drum Pad with 9 Velocity-Sensitive Drum Pad, 592+ Sounds, Electronic Drum Set Pad Multipad with MIDI out, USB MIDI, AUX, Looper, Metronome, Trigger inputs

I had ordered this before but was rushing to use it in a live performance. I didn't have time to set up sensitivity and pad configurations. I thought I didn't like it then and rushed to send it back. Later I got the alesis strike pad. And it wasn't up to par for that much money. And sent that back to. So now a few months later I re ordered this lekato and sat down with to really program the sensitivity for playing congos with hands. And WOW👌 WOW WOW! This lekato percussion pad can play congo like playing real congos. The sensitivity can be adjusted to your liking. But it's amazing how I programed it. And it's really easy and intuitive, unlike the alesis strike pad. This is better than the Alesis strike and better than the Yamaha DTX. I play on the lakato like playing my real 4 congos. And I don't have to hit the pads hard at all. In fact I'm playing with my 3 fingers like I do on real congos. I'm faster playing that way. The yamaha dtx cost like $600. And they brag on their percussion mode. Well not all that. And still can't play without having to kind of hit the pads hard, even in hand mode.This Lekato percussion pad is well worth the $250.00. It's also light weight. Lighter than the Yamaha and Alesis. But I like how easy it is to use and manipulate/change pad locations, sensitivity and more stuff that's way easier than the other 2 percussion pads I had returned. And this is like half less the price of those others. Oh, and also with those others I mentioned they have like a hollow sound when you strike the pads. Like the inside of it is made of a box. So they are never really quiet like this lekato. I play in the middle of the night with headphones and by me only having to strike lightly to trigger sounds it's barely even heard from the room. Doesent sound like hitting a hollow box.Listen, for the price so low. This lekato percussion pad is well worth it. I've had no misstriggers ir cross talk and my finger and drum rolls registered just as fast as I'm playing. I do lots of rolls and solos with my hands in congo mode and sticks in drum modes. And as fast as I roll, the lekato rolls too. So I'm playing with confidence and comfort in the machine handling my style. Trust. I'm keeping this one. I was going to buy the $800 aleseis as a last try to find my style. But something said try the lekato again but take a few minutes this time to set it up. Once I did all the set ups. I'm so glad I didn't pay all that money for the alesis. Sure the alesis has lots more sounds. But really... who really uses 7000 sounds? I can create just as good sounds on lekato with a few tweaks in the settings.The lekato and avatar are basically the same in everyday, if your wondering. Exactly same, just different name. But the Avatar is just a tad more expensive than the lekato. Not much more, Like 30 or 40 bucks. So getting this Lekato is cheaper price wise but Exactly the same. So go with lekato. Plus lekato has better customer support if needed.That's my review. I'm satisfied

I'm not a drummer, but I'm a multi-instrumentalist working on a solo live show. I wanted a drum pad for playing things into a Boss looper pedal, but the Roland pad I really wanted was way too expensive for my needs. I just gave them a wad for a Fantom 6 EX, so I started exploring cheaper options. This was on sale for Prime Days, so I took a chance. And after doing some tweaking in settings for sensitivity and building a few of my own kits from the hundreds of included samples, and I was off to the races. This does everything I need it to do, and it plays fairly well. You'll want to add a suitable kick pedal, and maybe another one for the hi-hat. But after a couple of days my meager drum and percussion skills are coming back into focus. Lots of fun for the money, and actually playable as a reliable musical instrument. It'll be on stage with me soon.

I used this for orchestra rehearsals when I didn't want to pack the whole drum-kit just to play the Phantom of the Opera medley. It works well enough for that. I had to adjust the trigger sensitivity of the pads a bit from the standard Rock Kit to get the responsiveness I wanted, but ultimately I'm pleased with it. Note that using the buttons to navigate the menus is not intuitive. After 20 minutes of constant adjusting I still press the wrong buttons to navigate up/down, select, back out, etc. It's just not like most other navigation systems you might find on an automobile, a TV remote, a smartspeaker, a digital effects pedal, etc. Get used to not being used to it and always making mistakes.One nice benefit though is that you can hit these pads with almost anything you have in your hand -- soft mallets that you just used to play a cymbal crescendo, triangle beater, the butt of a bass drum mallet, etc.The volume knob is ridiculous, though. It's a tiny knob on the back left side, and there is no visual indicator for volume so you have to remember to roll it backwards (since it's on the back and you're reaching around), and only move it a bit at a time for volume adjustments. Meanwhile there is a HUGE knob on the front left of the control panel that should definitely be the volume knob, but instead it controls the sensitivity of the footswitch, I think? I have used that knob exactly zero times, and have nervously adjusted the rear volume knob a hundred times. Switch the knob assignments!Final minor complaint -- I originally bought this so that I could trigger extra percussion sounds that our small community orchestra can't afford. Wind chimes, congas, gong, etc. It is very laborious to find additional sounds in its memory banks because they have very inconsistent naming (and the navigation is clumsy), and there are actually no good gong sounds built in. I have not gotten as far as grabbing a gong sample to store on it. I ended up downloading a free gong app on my phone and running that through the speaker for gong sounds in the concert. Swing and a miss for the drum pad, though it served as a basic kit in rehearsals well enough. Hopefully I can find other fun things for which to use it

If you research the history of this unit a little it's a fun story and sheds light on why such a high quality sample pad has showed up with so many random brands slapped onto it. I honestly can't speak too much for the on-unit functions -- tried them out and they seem to work just fine -- but I mainly got this to use as a midi trigger and it works great for that. Haven't noticed any cross triggering at all and you can easily expand with some extra triggers.The pads have an interesting double-trigger feature that works based on how hard you hit the pad. Seems to work mostly as intended but I'm not the best drummer so it's 100% likely that any lack in consistency is just my technique.Anyhow, TL;DR if you need a midi pad controller for drums or whatever else don't be put off by the random branding, this thing is good stuff.