Alesis DM5 Electronic Drum Kit:

[Creamyapples1]

It's usable, I still need to do some tweaking and playing around to get it perfect, but I have much less time than I'd like. I've got a clip of it in my sig. song called "in the dark" It needs more bass, but it was the first real time I tried to sit down and record a drum part with it. I've got it routed better now, but no clips of it yet.


P.S. I'm no drummer, but I can move my feet and hands so it works

 

[zacanger]

ion

haha im getting the only cheaper drum kit i could find, an ion audio one. it's cheap, i'll be used for FX while im playing live, so i figured, why not.

 

[minihomer2003]

I have the ion idmo2 ...it is a the alesis dm5 i believe..its not bad for 250 bucks..im still not sure how to use the output into my cubase le...any help>..anyone..anyone

 

[MatthewRedStars]

The DM5 kit is great except for the wingnuts which are pretty rubbish, this is now a known issue and alesis are replaceing mine free.

With regard to connecting it to Cubase..... i use a Edirol MIDI to USB converter cost about £20 works perfectly first time.

 

[Mistral]

It was seeing the DM5's in the last issue of Sound on Sound that got me interested in buying a kit. I never realized they'd become as affordable as they have. Pretty quickly I realized I might want some alternatives to the DM5's (due to the aforementioned worksmanship issues and also the lack of tom pads) and settled on the Yamaha DTXplorers. A bit more than I originally wanted to spend, but actually I had to stop myself before going overboard buying the Roland TD-3's, I would have had to dish out nearly double what I paid for the DTX's before all was said and done.

 

[Creamyapples1]

The only thing questionable is the hi-hat pedal trigger, but it's still going strong. You can add extra triggers for next to nothing these days too.

 

[Mistral]

actually I've read in more than one review that the fasteners broke easily.. didn't want to chance it and the dtxplorers looked better to me so I got em.