I’ve been playing this kit and experimenting with the drum module for about a week now. It’s my first electronic kit, but I have played on others. This is a quality kit in almost every detail. Set up was a little bit involved as far as assembling the rack and placing trigger pads and cymbals, but I was up and drumming in about 45 minutes.
I rated this 4 out of 5 stars only because I did have an issue with the Surge 16″ ride cymbal; the bell trigger didn’t appear to be working. I called Alesis and got excellent help after a short wait. It turned out I had to go in to the settings (hit the “ext trg” key), select the ride bell trigger and change its input type from ’switch’ to ‘piezo’. This could have been set at the factory or been detailed in the user’s guide for the cymbal, and save Alesis Tech Support and me some time. Also be sure to disable write protection on the module, so you can save this setting and any others you make. Instructions for this are in the user’s manual which brings me to my next point.
The only documentation that came in the carton were the quick start guide (QSG) to assemble the set and the QSG’s for the Surge cymbals. I had to download the user manual (among others) for the DM10 module from the Alesis website. It seems to me that you would rate a hard copy of the manuals for the price of the system.
Overall its a great system and I would buy it again if I had to do it over.
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I’ve been playing this kit and experimenting with the drum module for about a week now. It’s my first electronic kit, but I have played on others. This is a quality kit in almost every detail. Set up was a little bit involved as far as assembling the rack and placing trigger pads and cymbals, but I was up and drumming in about 45 minutes.
I rated this 4 out of 5 stars only because I did have an issue with the Surge 16″ ride cymbal; the bell trigger didn’t appear to be working. I called Alesis and got excellent help after a short wait. It turned out I had to go in to the settings (hit the “ext trg” key), select the ride bell trigger and change its input type from ’switch’ to ‘piezo’. This could have been set at the factory or been detailed in the user’s guide for the cymbal, and save Alesis Tech Support and me some time. Also be sure to disable write protection on the module, so you can save this setting and any others you make. Instructions for this are in the user’s manual which brings me to my next point.
The only documentation that came in the carton were the quick start guide (QSG) to assemble the set and the QSG’s for the Surge cymbals. I had to download the user manual (among others) for the DM10 module from the Alesis website. It seems to me that you would rate a hard copy of the manuals for the price of the system.
Overall its a great system and I would buy it again if I had to do it over.