Pyle Tabletop Digital Drum Machine Kit with 7 Touch-Sensitive Pads PTED03

You gotta pound on the pads to get them to produce sound. Also you'll need to buy a jack adapter to use headphones with it. Layout of the drums is also not what most are used to.

My nephew said he loved Christmas gift. Can't keep him off drum kit now!

Have had this machine for 6 months now and use it weekly. The sounds are okay, but there are a lot you will never use. The two big issues I have with this machine is that the pedals are horrible, the hi-hat doesn't work very well, and it's almost impossible to get an open accent hit on it correctly, unless you hit the pad and lift your foot on the pedal just right. The worst part is that the bass drum sound has developed an issue where it double triggers when you press down on the pedal, which is very annoying, and pretty much makes this unit unusable for paying music, and others have complained about this as well. Tried getting a hold of the company as it's still under warranty and haven't gotten a response back. Not very happy.

The Electronic Tabletop Digital Drum is really good and works well for us.

My Electronic Tabletop Digital Drum is really nice and I like using it a lot.

Our Electronic Tabletop Digital Drum is perfect, we use it a lot.

Overall, the set works and sounds better than I expected it to. I love how easy it is to arrange the kit and adjust the voices to my liking (for example, the hi-hat pad in the original setup is in the middle of the set, which felt weird to me, so I switched it to the upper left-hand pad so that it would feel closer to the way my acoustic kit is set up).

The Pyle PTED01 digital drums work great. It's easy to program the way you want by changing the pad voices and midi note pad assignments. The USB port allows you to connect to your computer for midi sequencing inside your digital audio workstation software. There are five memory locations to store your own drum kits for the internal kits and midi kits. The drum sounds have cross switching for soft and hard hits on the pads which adds a nice dynamic touch. You can play along with the 100 built in songs and mute the kit performances in each song with the ""Drum Off"" button, also you can practice and control the volume of the accompaniment tracks. Please watch my video on how to setup the PTED01 to perform the way you like, and hear how the drum kits sound to make it easier for you to decide if the PTED01 is right for you. Please feel free to use the Video Index below for my video. Video Index: 00:00 - Introduction and basic Features 4:36 – Control Buttons 8:58 – Drum Kit Sounds 13:23 – Pad Voice Editing 25:50 – Reverb Settings 27:17 – Song Mode 33:34 – Record Mode 42:40 – Midi Note Setup For DAW Software 48:38 - DAW Recording 53:25 – Rating and Wrap Up 55:20 - Built In Demo Patterns

Wonderful drum but the pedals are terrible quality.

As a non-musician with a deep appreciation for music, I thought this might be a fun toy. It's beyond that. As the reviews reveal, the pedals are the weak point, and they can easily be improved quite a bit. I simply bought an eight-dollar rubber-backed front door mat and added ""hook"" side Velcro to the bottom of each pedal. I put the floor mat down where I'm playing the drum kit and stick the pedals onto it, keeping them in place. To get more realistic control, you can spend extra cash and rig a real kick drum pedal with a home-made switch to work the drum kit's kick drum. There are lots of on-line videos to help get a basic understanding of drumming and drum technique. Have fun!

This is a great machine. It has many different sounds. The drum sticks are included. I did a lot of research before buying and this was my choice. I would recommend it to you. My only problem is I live in an apartment and it's very noisy. I bought earphones. Make sure you buy earphones with the large stereo attachment to plug it in.

Happy with my Electronic Tabletop Digital Drum, it's good and simple.

Absolutely great

Got this as a gift. My kids and I love messing around on this but none of us actually know how to play so it's just for fun. It has some neat features, it allows you to learn a broad variety of styles at whatever speed is comfortable for you as well as allowing you to adjust the volume of the drums and track that you're playing with independently.

This Electronic Tabletop Digital Drum is fun to use, and I enjoy it.

Been in a couple bands, but never played drums other than getting behind a friend's kit. This thing is super cool. Way more affordable than a new Yamaha tabletop kit, and the sounds are amazing, especially plugged into a PA. I'll just be goofing around with it, but can see how this might be used at a small gig. Someone recommended buying the Hosa breakout cable on Pyle to use a Wii Rock Band pedal, and this worked like a charm. Much better feel and accuracy for the kick-drum.

I'm a new drummer, but have been a performing musician and sound tech for decades so I know quality sound. I've only had this kit for about an hour but am already very impressed with it. The sounds it produces are high quality, someone could actually gig with this if they wanted to. I'm talking about running it through a P. A. system, which is what I'm doing with it. The pads have a little bounce to them so it feels something like a real drum head. A lot of reviewers have had trouble with the pedals double triggering but I'm not having that problem. I think they actually have a pretty good response once you get used to them. They do need to be velcroed to floor so they don't move around. I haven't explored everything this kit has to offer yet but it is for sure a nice inexpensive set to learn to drum on. I really like having the internal songs that you can play to also. I'm very happy with it.

Love these digital drums and they sound great! Easily connects to an amplifier with a 1/4"" cable if you want to bring down the house!

Our Electronic Tabletop Digital Drum is great and everyone likes it.

I really wanted to like this drum kit. In general, I've now tried three Pyle drum kits, the PTED 01 the PTED06 and the PTED09. This one is the 01 and it comes in two different versions one with a dial button and one with a picture of the kit that lights up when you hit the various Drums or symbols. The biggest turnoff for me was the volume. This kit is significantly less loud than any of the other tabletop kits that I have tried. I especially didn't like the fact that when you switched to batteries, the level of sound on the kit only goes to 11 versus 16 with electricity. Even at level 16 this kit was nowhere near as loud as the other table top kits made by Pyle as well as Konix or Yamaha. There were a large number of kit sounds to choose from as well as the sound quality was very good for a tabletop kit. So if the volume is not an issue for you, then this could be a good kit for you.