Akai Drum pad thingies.

[massplanck]

I am about to instruct my GF on what to buy me for christmas.

I cant believe how cheap this is.
http://www.thomann.de/ie/akai_mpd_16.htm

but i shall force her to buy this.
http://www.thomann.de/ie/akai_mpd_24.htm

I take it the pad build is as good as on the mpc range.
Anyone have one?

[rounser]

Yup. Need to attach it to something solid to get the best performance out of the pads though; a proper MPC acts like a big paperweight.

In other words, an MPD16 is too light to hit properly (probably same with the 24). Best performance when glued/taped/velcroed to something.

[BloodStar]

check this one, aswel. I have got it and it is solid.

http://www.thomann.de/gb/korg_padkontrol.htm

[Komplex]

Yup. Need to attach it to something solid to get the best performance out of the pads though; a proper MPC acts like a big paperweight.

In other words, an MPD16 is too light to hit properly (probably same with the 24). Best performance when glued/taped/velcroed to something.

I had this problem too...

The things are quite useless, I ended up using mine as a mute/unmute interface for ableton, then sold it cus it was easier to use the F keys on the laptop. lol

Using pads for drumming is no better than using a decent keyboard, infact I prefer a keyboard because they are way more responsive to velocity and have way more keys ;)