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ALESIS DM5 PRO KIT Details ^top

The Alesis DM5 Pro Kit is a complete high quality electronic drum kit. It delivers professional sound and familiar, comfortable playability thanks to durable, real drum heads. The DM5 Pro's quick setup and easy portability are complemented by a versatile sound selection. With the DM5 Pro Kit, drummers can practice quietly with headphones, or get as loud as they need on-stage by connecting to an amplifier. The flexibility of the DM5 Pro Kit functions insures that it performs equally well for recording or live gigs.

The DM5 Pro Kit features a self-contained, 5-piece electronic drum set including a dual-zone snare, kick, 3 toms, with ride, crash and HiHat cymbal pads. In addition, the DM5 Pro Kit includes a heavy duty HiHat foot pedal along with an updated, rack-mounted, programmable DM5 sound module with a stunning 540 percussion sounds and 21 pre-programmed drum/percussion sets. Alesis' proprietary Dynamic Articulation™ feature powers the DM5 Pro Kit's drum sounds to respond instantly to the force with which a pad is struck, for the most realistic and accurate playback possible.

Step into the world of professional electronic percussion with the Alesis DM5 Pro kit.

• Snare, kick, 3 toms, with ride, crash and HiHat cymbal pads.
• Alesis Professional DM5 module containing:
• 540 sounds
• 21 programmable drum sets recorded in 48kHz, true stereo, with ambient effects
• Single rack space module
• Dynamic Articulation™ feature allows drum sounds to change volume, tone, and pitch depending on how hard they're hit - just like real drums
• Ultra-fast trigger-to-MIDI converter with 12 trigger inputs, 5 programmable parameters for each trigger
• Natural movement motion cymbals and HiHat controller pedal for realistic open/close control

ALESIS DM5 PRO KIT Specs ^top

DM5 Drum Module

• Audio Outputs:  4 (2 stereo pairs)
• Trigger Input Jacks:  12 (each with 5 user adjustable trigger parameters)
• DAC Bit Resolution:  18
• Sample Rate:  48kHz
• Sounds:  Over 500; includes stereo samples with reverb, ambience and dynamic articulation
• Polyphony:  16 voice
• Panning:  7 position, user programmable
• Velocity Response:  127 levels of loudness via MIDI or trigger inputs
• Kits:  21 Memory locations w/defaults permanently stored in ROM
• MIDI Jacks:  In, Out/Thru
• Headphone Jack:  1/4" TRS w/variable gain
• Switchable Footswitch Jack:  1/4" jack can be assigned to hi-hat or program advance mode
• Tuning Scheme:  Coarse (chromatic) and Fine (cents)
• Data Input:  Data knob, front panel keypad (sound auditioning via velocity sensitive Preview button on front panel)
• Expanded Dynamic Articulation™:  Modulates tone and pitch
• Power:  9 VAC external transformer, UL and CSA approved
• Dimensions:  (WxHxD) 19"x1.75"x6"
• Weight:  4.5 lbs.

ALESIS DM5 PRO KIT Downloads ^top

Manuals & Documentation Size Type
DM5 Pro Kit - QuickStart Assembly Manual 1 MB pdf

Software & Drivers Size Type
Presets for the DM5 Pro Kit 3 KB zip
Contains new programs as well as optimized settings for the DM5 Pro Kit triggers. Load via MIDI using MIDIOX (PC) or SysEx Librarian (Mac.)

Review of ALESIS DM5 PRO KIT

RATING:

Sound Quality	10
Features	10
Ease Of Use	10
Value	10
Reliability	10
Overall	10

I bought this kit because I live in a townhouse and absolutely love it. For the price it's easily in competition with other more expensive drum kits. The brain has tons of inputs outputs and drum sounds (although most of the preprogrammed kits are kind of cheesy). I think the drum pads actually feel more realistic than Roland's mesh pads (plus, because they use standard drum heads, they're cheaper and easier to replace). The variable velocity triggers work very well for both the drums and the cymbals. Also, there's a cross talk setting in the brain to prevent pads from picking up other sounds. I would make a couple of suggestions, though. First, I added a Yamaha TP60 pad (little rubber pad) next to my snare drum for doing rim sticks (the pads are only single trigger). Second, I bought an extra cymbal so I could have two crashes. Two complaints: there isn't any pre-programmed drumless music to practice with and playing an open high hat can be a bit dodgy. All in all I'm highly pleased with this product.

-Mr Phil
-San Jose, CA, 01/27/08

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