Hey all,
I've been looking into electronic kits since I live in an apartment now due to noise reasons (have 2 acoustic kits at my mother's house), and wanted your opinion based on my needs.

-Price range: About 2k, maybe a little more (stands, monitor, etc)
-Yamaha kits look crappy (mainly the heads themselves)...or is it just me?

Based on that, I was thinking to get the Roland TD-9SX which is about 2.1K. Mesh heads, cool. Has basically everything I think I'll need or want.

Link:
http://www.samash.com/catalog/showitem.asp?ItemPos=6&TempID=7&DepartmentID=4&STRID=14838&CategorySubID=33&CategoryID=33&BrandID=0&CategorySubPriceRangeID=0&pagesize=10&SortMethod=3&Method=3&PriceRangeID=0&SearchPhrase=&Contains=&Search_Type=Department&GroupCode=&categorysubsearch=true

Now, I mainly play rock but I've had a nagging to try to do a live hip hop band and actually PLAY the drum parts instead of just pushing play (the band would be an actual band, with drums, keys, bass, guitar if necessary...as little sampling as possible). Given that, I need ability to load my own sounds, whether it be a sample (sequence) or just sounds (e.g. snare drum = imported hand clap). I write beats on Reason (the software) and I wanted to take those sounds and recreate the beat in real time by physically playing it on my kit. Is this possible? Or do I need something like the Roland SPD-S? This has been my only reservation in purchasing one of these type of kits. It says "USB for memory back-up or playing .wav files with time stretch" in the description but I don't know if that will cut it.

Thanks so much for any help!

RM

ive played on a few different roland kits, they seem to be a pretty good value, although ive also played on yamaha's and i dont think you should rule them out as they are probably the better value

Hey RM,

I think the link you wanted was:

http://www.samash.com/catalog/showitem.asp?ItemPos=6&TempID=7&DepartmentID=4&STRID=20311&CategorySubID=33&CategoryID=33&BrandID=0&CategorySubPriceRangeID=0&pagesize=10&SortMethod=3&Method=3&PriceRangeID=0&SearchPhrase=&Contains=&Search_Type=Department&GroupCode=&categorysubsearch=true

Anyway, I'm looking at this new kit myself and can't decide between this and the more expensive TD 12S V Stage drums. I'm looking forward to seeing what people say about the new Roland kit!

Alex

Weird, my link goes to a Yamaha kit. But yeah, the TD9SX Roland is what I was looking at. Anyone have any idea if I can map the sounds to the drums? Thanks for the replies so far guys

RM