The Pacific Digital’s DrumXtreme DX-MIDI-PRO digital drum kit is the definitive digital kit for musicians and would-be musicians alike. It looks and feels like a traditional drum set due to its natural and convenient set-up. It comes with six separate 7.5-inch drum pads, 2 foot pedals, a rack/stand, drumsticks, MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) and USB cables, and separate MIDI and USB consoles: MIDI for use with other MIDI-capable devices, and USB for integration with a PC or Mac.

The Pacific Digital DX-MIDI-PRO features adjustable percussion sensitivity. No matter what velocity the player performs at, the drum machine produces professional-quality sound that can be played aggressively at max volume or softly at a muted volume, which is perfect for not disrupting neighbors or family members. The kit also features a unique headphone jack. This is obviously important if you get too drunk, your playing sucks, but you enjoy it nonetheless and thusly don’t want anyone to hear!

The folks at Pacific Digital made a bunch of great features like adjustable percussion sensitivity and professional-quality sound that can be played full-blast or muted, to spare the ears of family and neighbors. A headphone jack also allows the player to direct all sounds to headphones, of course. DrumXtreme is easy to assemble and sets up or folds down in minutes. Set up-right, it’s 36-inches high, 36-inches deep and 18-inches wide. The kit supports up to 7 drum pads (hi-hat, snare, tom1, tom2, tom3, ride, crash) and 2 pedals (bass drum and hi-hat control). You can even mix and match your own drum samples.

Audio inputs and outputs let you feed external sources into your playing, and let you amplify or record your playing. The recording feature lets you record your drum music to the sequencer in real-time (only one track at a time though). MIDI channels, however, are recorded simultaneously. All of these features are very handy when it comes to really composing the proper groove for your jam.

The drum kit package also includes a very handy Pacific Digital CD software tutorial which features training videos, play-along 4-level drum game, exercises, interface to select from 20 different drum sound banks, with over 380 usable voices, and a tone effect feature that helps beginner develop snare, tom, hi-hat, crash, and ride skills. It also includes a CD with pre-recorded play-a-long scores, which gives you a virtual band to perform with (50 preset songs, 4 user songs, plus 1 demo song). All in all, I really couldn’t be happier with this device, especially considering its really not very expensive at all.

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