Andy Peters
Well-known member
abbey road d enfer said:I've had a DM5 for about 15 years. Never had to complain. I'm not a MIDI freak, I use it just because it's convenient.helterbelter said:I'd stay away from the Alesis modules. The modules that I have had were all........ Not that good. (Trigger I/O, DM5, D4)
A D4 saved a gig for me once. The band I was working for have a song which uses TR808 samples for kick, snare and hat for the first verse; when the first chorus kicks in it's back to real drums. So I carried a D4 in the rack and triggered kick, snare and hat sounds from those drum channels' direct outs on the console. The samples returned to three other inputs.
So we're doing a fly gig at a college in Michigan, and the hired backline was actually borrowed from a local band. And after the third or fourth song, I lost the kick channel. I could clearly hear things in the headphones, just the kick sound was pffft. I radio back to the stage, and I'm told, "He put his foot through the batter head of the drum!"
I dial up a "rock kick" sound on the D4 and nobody knows the difference.
-a