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Alesis Nitro Ultimate Electronic Drum Set

5-piece Electronic Drum Set with 3 x 8" Toms, 8" Kick Tower, 10" Snare, 2 x 10" Crash Cymbals, 10" Ride Cymbal, 10" Hi-hat, and Nitro Ultimate Module
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The Ultimate Alesis Nitro Experience

Whether you're a beginning drummer looking to learn the ropes or a professional in need of a flexible recording/practicing tool, the Alesis Nitro Ultimate electronic drum set delivers on all fronts. First, fledgling feel dealers will benefit immensely from the inspiring Nitro Ultimate module, 90-day access to interactive drumming lessons on the Drumeo platform, and Bluetooth connectivity that lets them jam right along with their favorite songs as they listen through the 1/4-inch stereo headphone out. Likewise, pro pulse pilots will love the MIDI via USB connectivity for recording, the Nitro Ultimate's dual-zone playability and chokeable cymbals, and the ultra-convenient rack that makes setup/tear-down a total cinch. Plus, drummers from both camps will appreciate the tunable mesh heads that provide a natural feel and whisper-quiet practice sessions. There's something for every drummer with the Alesis Nitro Ultimate electronic drum set!

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Alesis's most comprehensive Nitro drum module yet

The appropriately named Alesis Nitro Ultimate drum module represents nothing less than Alesis's finest Nitro module to date. Powered by the robust BFD Player (and featuring the free Dark Mahogany expansion pack), the Nitro Ultimate module sports 36 preset kits, and you can select from more than 640 sounds to create 16 custom user kits for a total of 52 kits. The always convenient integrated Bluetooth means you can start jamming along with songs or listening to your new Drumeo lessons from day one. Finally, using MIDI via USB connectivity, you can run your Alesis Nitro Ultimate kit through your favorite drumming software for unlimited sound and recording options.

Natural feel and playability

Already experienced with acoustic kits? You'll love the feel and playability of the Nitro Ultimate electronic drum set. And, if you plan on playing an acoustic kit in the future, then the Alesis Nitro Ultimate helps make your transition as seamless as possible. Tunable mesh heads let you dial in your preferred amount of tension and rebound, and the chokeable cymbals allow for truly expressive performance. Plus, each drum/cymbal on the Nitro Ultimate has dual zones, and the stand-mounted hi-hat cymbal (stand not included) can be tailored precisely to your desired playing feel. Finally, the 8-inch kick tower comes with its own dedicated chain-drive kick drum pedal with a silky smooth action.

Top-tier hardware

The Nitro Ultimate's reinforced 4-post rack with curved steel bars makes it effortless for this kit to fit into any practice space, whether it's an apartment, bedroom, hotel room, or otherwise. Additionally, each clamp and cymbal tilter is highly adjustable, so you can position each component exactly where you want it. Simply add your favorite drum throne and hi-hat stand, then get ready to rock in total playing comfort.

90 days of the world's top drumming platform

When you purchase an Alesis Nitro Ultimate electronic drum set, you're getting much more than a musical instrument — you're also getting a supercharged music education tool. Each Nitro Ultimate kit comes with a free 90-day Drumeo membership, which gives you access to real instructors, including Grammy-winning drummers, hundreds of hours of instructional videos, and in-depth play-alongs to over 1,500 popular songs. Professional drummers will hone their chops like never before, and beginning drummers will rocket straight to first chair in no time!

Alesis Nitro Ultimate Features:

  • The latest evolution of Alesis's renowned Nitro series of electronic drum sets
  • Inspiring next-gen Nitro Ultimate module gives you 36 preset kits and 16 custom user kits that can be created from 640+ sounds
  • Built around the powerful BFD Player and includes the free Dark Mahogany expansion pack
  • Dual-zone drums with tunable mesh drumheads provide your ideal playing feel and reduced volume for practice at any time
  • Dual-zone chokeable cymbals allow you to be naturally expressive in your playing and performances
  • Stand-mounted hi-hat cymbal enables hi-hat playing more akin to that of a real acoustic kit
  • 8-in. kick drum tower comes with its own chain-driven kick drum pedal
  • Reinforced 4-post rack system is sturdy, customizable, and easy to set up or tear down in any practice space
  • Free 90-day access to interactive drum lessons with professional drummers, hundreds of hours of instructional videos, and play-alongs to 1,500+ popular songs via the Drumeo platform
  • Onboard Bluetooth connectivity lets you jam with any of your favorite songs from your computer or smart device, as well as attend your Drumeo lessons
  • 1/4-in. stereo headphone out lets you hear your sounds while keeping the volume low
  • Integrated MIDI via USB connection lets you use your favorite drumming software for recording

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Tech Specs

  • Total Number of Pads: 5 x Drum Pads, 4 x Cymbal Pads
  • Included Snare/Tom Pads: 1 x 10" Dual-zone Mesh Snare, 3 x 8" Dual-zone Mesh Toms
  • Included Kick Pads: 1 x 8" Dual-zone Mesh Tower
  • Included Cymbal Pads: 1 x 10" Dual-zone Hi-hat, 1 x 10" Dual-zone Ride, 2 x 10" Dual-zone Crashes
  • Color: Red
  • Included Drum Module: NItro Ultimate Drum Module
  • Number of Drum Kits: 36 x Factory, 16 x User
  • Number of Instruments: 640+
  • Effects: Reverb, 3-band EQ
  • Module Trigger Inputs: 1 x DB-25 (10-trigger), 2 x 1/4" TRS (tom 4, crash2)
  • Module Analog Inputs: 1 x 1/8" TRS (aux)
  • Module Analog Outputs: 2 x 1/4" TRS (main: left, right)
  • Headphones: 1 x 1/8" TRS
  • Module MIDI I/O: USB
  • Other I/O: Bluetooth v5.0 (audio)
  • USB: 1 x Type B (MIDI)
  • Features: Backlit Segment LCD Display, 30 to 280 BPM Tempo Range
  • Software: BFD Player, Dark Mahogany Expansion Pack
  • Included Hardware: 4-post Steel Rack, Kick Pedal
  • Manufacturer Part Number: NITROULTIMTKIT

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A great kit for the money
This may be a long review, but I am providing this info as I hope it will be helpful to others who have had a similar journey and are now considering going "all electric". I'm a loyal Sweetwater customer who has bought many Alesis items as well as at least six guitars and loads of other gear from Sweetwater. They've never let me down. Nich is my engineer.
I occasionally go to Reverb to buy and sell used gear; admit I have a cheap guitar habit so I have also gone to Guitar Fetish to buy a few Xavieres, or to Thomann and Firefly (not bad guitars, I practice my set up skills on those!)
I have been the owner of the Alesis Strike Pro pad and the Alesis Strike Multipad. I like many things about the Alesis Strike Multipad, but I was never satisfied with how it responded to triggers on my acoustic kit. With the Acoustic kit that I had, I attached triggers to it: cheaper Red Shot triggers on the Toms, a good Yamaha trigger on the snare and a good Roland trigger on the kick.
My band also wanted to balance the mic'd sound of my real hi-hats and real cymbals. I sing and play harmonica behind the drums, so we were also getting problems with bleed from the snare and hats into the vocal and harp mics.
So, I ordered this Nitro kit. I have my own throne and hi-hat stand so I saved a little by not having those in the package. It arrived in good shape and on time, as usual for Sweetwater. But, NO CANDY, as it was all in the original packaging with no extra outer box.
It took me only a little while to understand how to assign and configure different voices to the snare, kick, toms, hats and cymbals. I think the sounds in the sound module (brain) are pretty good for the price, although the brain is VERY compact. You can alter the pitch of any sound up or down, adjust reverb, crossover, sensitivity and threshold, etc, very easily.
The cymbals were adequate and all the inputs are dual zone, so for example, a side stick sound for the snare can be assigned to the rim, and a main snare head sound assigned to the head. You could assign acoustic tones to the tom heads and electronic tom sounds to the rims ... which I have done ... expanding the available sounds on a given kit easily. There are many preset kits and plenty of open kits for designing custom kits to your liking.
It takes a little getting used to being on target with only 8" toms, and a 10" snare. The kick has a mesh head, its own pedal, and feels very sturdy. The frame is lightweight and yet feels sturdy and is very easy to assemble and adjust.
I was VERY impressed with how the mesh heads felt and responded to the Nitro brain. I also tried connecting the Mesh head units to the Multipad directly, but no matter how I tweaked it, I could not get the Multipad to have the same range of soft to loud dynamics and responsiveness as when the Mesh heads are connected to the Nitro brain.
I had a friend of mine, a veteran pro drummer who was a Simmons early adopter decades ago, who normally plays acoustic but who has also played on an expensive F note kit. He said he could not see paying multi thousands of dollars on an F note kit, for my semi-pro applications. He really liked the responsiveness of the mesh heads and Nitro brain and found the tom, kick, and cymbal sounds adequate.
I practiced with our guitarist and he thought the kit sounded fine, even running it through an inexpensive PA. I have not been able to run it through our good PA with subs yet. I hope our sound man, keyboard and bass players will agree it sounds good enough for live performance. I don't want to have to spend multi thousands on a higher level Alesis, Roland, or F note kit - we are a part time band, good musicians who all have day jobs and can only got like once per month, so I count justify a more expensive rig!
We had run the acoustic set with triggers through the Multipad, so I had panned toms to AUX L, Snare to AUX R, Kick to MAIN L and the pad sounds to MAIN R, and sent those signals through those outputs to the board with our snake. I use a lot of customized sounds triggered from the pads: guitar chords, bass notes, keyboard sequences and washes, sound effects, and percussion.
With this previous arrangement the sound man had control of the four input volumes, but of course the acoustic kit had its own ambient sound and volume, and the cymbals could only be made so quiet... so in a small club that could be a challenge when playing rock. Some clubs still want rock, but more are using decibel meters and want the band to keep it at 90-100 decibels! So, with all of us using in-ears and going digital / "PA only" with no stage monitors, we should be able to control stage and FOH volume very well.
With the new Nitro kit, there are only a Main R and Main L output. I have panned the snare and toms Left and the hats and cymbals Right, but they will go into the board mono so the mono mix will all be blended through the PA.
The sound man will have volume and post EQ control control of snare and toms (summed) and hats and cymbals (summed). We will need to get any balances within those sums worked out in soundcheck. Those balances can be quickly and easily manipulated by me (the drummer) through the brain.
I am not using the kick sound from the Nitro brain, I am wiring from the Nitro kick to the Multipad kick input, and sending that kick OUT through the MAIN L, and the Pad sounds through AUX R, so the sound man will have volume and post EQ control over those separately - for a total of 4 kit inputs.
Ideally, I'd want a separate output to the board for each tom, each cymbal, etc., but that would be snare, kick, toms 1-3, 2 crashes and a ride, and hats, plus multipad for special sounds, totaling 10 board inputs, and we don't have such a big board; we still need inputs for 3 vocals, a harmonica, keyboards, bass, guitar, key bass, and acoustic instruments, 19 inputs minimum. So I'd still have to sum some of the drum inputs (as I'm doing now.)
Alesis had a previous Strke module for its mesh kits with a separate output to the board for each tom, each cymbal, etc., but it has been discontinued and I can't find one used; I found old ONE in Canada through Reverb but acquiring it turned out to be too complicated and iffy for the $700 price tag.. I also don't know if it would be as responsive as the new Nitro brain. The NEW Alesis brain is selling from edrums.com with the hi hat kit, but it costs upwards of $1,500 ... that's $1,500 more I don't have the bucks for right now.
So, I will try this out and report back here for the curious, maybe I'll add some video then.
by James on drums, lead and backing vocals, harmonica and Alesis multipad. on
Music background: Composed and recorded original music, played in original and cover bands (guitar, bass, drums, vox, harmonica) since 1979, currently in 27 Birds band, Chesnee, SC find us on Facebook!
Much better than I thought it would be…. I’m learning how to use it

I had been using cheap Ddrums redshot triggers from my acoustic kit (with a Roland kick trigger) going into my Alesis Strike Multipad, but never got the response to be sensitive in terms of dynamics or consistent triggering; then I got a better Yamaha snare trigger and it improved… however, the Strike multipad does not handle dynamics that well… When I got this "ultimate" kit I experimented using separate cables from the mesh snare into the strike mutipad, and then out to the amp (through a mixer board) but the Strike still did not handle subtle and dynamic sticking…

These mesh pads play very well, good bounce, GREAT sensitivity and volume dynamics, exceeding my expectations. The snare was programmable for a side stick sound on the rim, and head sound on the head, which is all I need. The diameter of snare (10") and toms (8") are small, but I am getting used to that, hitting with more precision. The hi-hat is more "just OK" in terms of control… I discovered that having hi hat volume at 2/3 or less of relative drum volume works best.

The crash cymbal as are dual zone and the bell sounds are pretty good… the ride is not as good (maybe I need to tweak it more) … I will probably get a "fully round" hi hat unit for better feel.

The sounds in the module are pretty good, but I am reading from other users that interfacing with computer based sounds is vastly superior. My hope was to use this kit in a bar band setting (without any computer interface, hoping the module sounds were good enough), when venues want lower volume, all controlled by the sound man through the mains.

We are trying to go all "in ear" on stage. Bleed from hi hats and snare into my vocal mic (I am a singing drummer, leads and backups) has been a problem, as has been managing crash cymbals. So the idea was to have an electronic kit for better volume control through the mains. I know the "pro" kits start at the $ and go up from there, but that's pretty expensive… The rest of the band has not heard the kit, yet… I'm going to see how this set up sounds in rehearsal, and the. Maybe at a low risk gig, and take it from there.

by Sweetwater Customer on
Music background: Bar band hobby (not my day job!) for many decades, classic rock, pop, country rock/southern rock
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