Great Pad for the $, only a few downsides...

For the price, you really can't beat the versatility of this little guy. All the voices are clear and the modifiable options give each voice a great way to customize a sound. One annoying feature is that hitting two pads simultaneously will only give you one output. Not sure if this would be remedied by using the stereo output rather than the mono output, but something to consider.

So far so good

I set up to be notified when the Percpad was available here on Sweetwater... got the notice last week, jumped on it, and got it yesterday. I'm kind of a noob at this stuff, but so far I like it! I'm a little disappointed at the odd choices for the 25 built-in sounds - I would have liked a few more 'classic', realistic (as opposed to synth) sounds in there, but it'll do. However, I've already hooked it up to my SR-16 drum machine, to make use of the MUCH better sounds there. I can't figure out why the MIDI numbers the Percpad sends don't correspond to the SR-16's sample numbers, but it's probably user error. I'll play more with that tonite.

But so far I'm very happy with this little addition to my studio!

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