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Roland, Yamaha, Alesis et al have research and development costs to recoup on their e-drum products. Millennium's R&D costs were one of the established makers' drumkits, a few hand tools and a PCB etching kit. (I am oversimplifying for comic effect but you get my drift.)
I went Alesis after agonising between spaffing crazy money on the Roland or going cheap-cheap by going 'unbranded'. There are days when I wish I'd gone Roland but I need to spend more time drumming and less time obsessing over gear - only one of those things will actually make me a better player!
Tbh, I drummed for years before getting my own house and having 2 kids. Miss it like bloody crazy. It will be in the house, and used to trigger Steven Slate. Think it will suffice? I can be a bit like animal and hit hard, partly bad discipline, partly influences. And yep, the gear lust is never ending. I actually want an acoustic kit again, but the neighbourhood probably isn't ideal.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youFeels a little budget but can fold up small and didn't take hours to set up, the sounds are decent and it has midi out, USB, and aux in.
I'm using mine as a starter kit and as a midi interface and love it so far.
I think I read that Alesis and Millenium are using the same hardware, although I can't remember where I read it... (ha, it might have been reddit.... geddit?)
We're using the Alesis Strike. It's not too bad. I prefer it to the TD-20 we've got. I've not played any of the more modern Roland kits.
The biggest thing I find, when I go to a real kit, is just how different the spacing is, I always feel like I'm reaching.
The Roland has great stock sounds but the Yamaha brain edges it on sound quality, layering sounds and learning programmes.
I have tried the Gear4Music WHD sets and they're fine for beginner kits, their mesh heads feel good but a but bouncier that the Roland heads.
The problem is the sets with the bigger heads go up in price dramatically with Roland and Yamaha.
I've added bigger heads I found cheap on gumtree and eBay.
Definitely try the hi hat if you can, some cheaper sets feel like an on/off arrangement rather than a gradual progression.
The Yamaha hi hat is miles behind the Roland one (both are stand alone on a full hi hat stand rather than pedals).
I've been wanting to try the Alesis Command/Crimson/Strike kits, they seem excellent value for money.
Really wish I could try before I buy, returns might be a pain/costly
RE: The Alesis Strike kit. Here are a couple of videos we did for some BFD products where we used the kit.
Not gonna lie. The midi needed tidying up quite a bit! Lot of junk coming from the brain, and not even in the form of cross-talk really. The cross talk performance of the whole thing is very good - at least across the different drums. But more the brain just putting out duff data. Where you clearly hit the centre of the drum, but it triggers the rim at the same time.
Also if I have the thresholds open all the way, I'll get a constant stream of low velocity notes - some sort of jitter or noise that is being converted to midi on the output. I don't know if it's common to e-kits or the Strike in general, certainly never had it with the TD-20 or the 2Box brain we've got.
So it's not a terrible kit, once you dial in all the parameters properly. Out of the box though it wasn't setup particularly nicely. I spent a long time dialling in my settings.