Millenium MD-90 Mobile Drum 5-stars Reviews

Very nice

An excelent product for a very good price. You can play it on every situation and it's a versatile tool.

I use it for recording with Garageband

I bought this because apartments in Germany aren't so drum-kit-friendly. I plug this into Garageband via USB and listen through my headphones If you turn down the master volume on the e-drums, then you only hear whatever drum sound you use in GarageBand. I've recorded awesome drums with this.

I gave it a 4 star playability rating because I'm used to the high hat being on the left of the snare. You can't do that here. The high hat is the centre-bottom pad and snare is left bottom. I messed up a lot in recording, but I got through. The kick pedal and and high hat pedal will move a bit during play. I used table legs from IKEA lack to hold them in place. Also, they are funny little pedals. They are full throttle or nothing because they aren't pressure sensitive. No biggy. The recording process is easy.

As far has how the drums themselves are, without GarageBand, just through the speaker, I am not sure. But this thing has tons of functions and features that I haven't tested yet. I can say that for recording in apartments that don't allow drums, this thing works just dandy. It has randomly disconnected from my laptop before. I turn it off and then on again. Wala! It's back in business.

Awesome bit of kit

I'm no drummer and all I wanted was to put a back beat on my singing and guitar playing and this was it. I've seen identical on another site (different name) but £30 more expensive. This does what it says on the tin super happy

drum kit space saving

Excellent functionality, programmable and space saving also. Worth while purchase.

Drum MD

Great to have around for a little practice or play along

Great midi drumset for home recording

I have been looking for a small drum set I can use for home recording (as drums are not my main instrument), which will not annoy the neighbours and can easily be stored in my apartment. This drum set is perfect for just that! Also it came with almost everything you need to start (foot pedals, power cable, and a nice set of drumsticks, only the usb-midi cable is not included). I will list the pros and cons below.

PROS:

- Small and portable, can easily be stored

- Not too loud if you're playing at home with headphones

- Midi, which gives you access to a wide range of drum sounds, and makes mixing them easier when recording (plus the sound quality is great!)

- Touch sensitive (except foot pedals)

CONS:

- The bass drum controlled by the foot pedal is not touch sensitive, and much louder than any of the other drums

- Foot pedal for bass drum sometimes "doubles" the beat if you step on it too hard

- Additionally, the snare is much quieter than the other drums for some reason.

- Foot pedals seem cheaply made (not a huge issue though).

The issues, however, are easily fixed by midi, where you can adjust the level of each drum beat individually, and add or delete beats as needed. I would highly recommend this drum kit to use for home recording, as it is small and quiet, and the sound quality is excellent, and easy to mix if you use its midi function. In this case, I would suggest adding a usb-midi cable to your purchase (I didn't think of this at first, but later got one locally).

Surprisingly Good

Bought this for our 5 year old grandson for Christmas. Not using the footswitches at this point as we feel he would struggle with them.

However, he soon got some rhythms and grooves going using the built in metronome. We knew he had rhythm because he played our pots and pans with wooden spoons when he was a baby. Due to lock down we've not seen him since Christmas day but we know he is still enjoying his kit. Great sounds and for the money, unbeatable

Great!!!

Does what I need it to.

Great piece of kit

First of all, please note that I'm a guitarist so my opinions may differ from those of a drummer.

Up until now I've been making drum tracks using a keyboard & PC, however even with good quality samples, somehow the end results always sounded a bit too synthetic to my ears. The MD-90 solves this problem - playing with sticks rather than your fingers gives a more natural feel to things.

The sounds are surprisingly authentic, and the compact size is obviously great for a home studio environment. USB connectivity extends the functionality of the device

My only criticism concerns the pedals. This has already been discussed by several other reviewers so I won't go into too much detail, suffice to say that they constantly move about, and there is often a problem with missing beats or getting extra ones. You really need to hit the pedal in a specific spot, and performance tends to vary depending on what shoes you're wearing!

Otherwise a great piece of kit and well worth the money.

Fun to play

For the price, you can't beat this. Was initially trying to look for bongos but found this instead. Now I have bongo sounds among others. The only thing that is really crappy about it is the false triggers from the pedals, and that they want to go all over the place when playing. I may have to look for a cheap pedal trigger that is an actual pedal, or I may have to just make something and mount it so it isn't flying all over. It's not like I'm kung fu kicking the darn thing, but geez.

Great piece of equipment

Sounds great, portable, various features- didn't yet have time to get the proper hang of it. Various drum kits programmed. Sound from the onboard speakers is loud and clear. Headphone jack is at the back, so you need to use a long extension cable if you want to avoid cable getting in the way. Comes with drum sticks included. Makes for great fun. I bought it to pass time during the lock down. So far I love it!

A nice drum to have fun or to record a drum track

I bought this drum for my personal home recording studio :)

I needed something to record a drum track and this is exactly what I was looking for. It doesn't take a lot of room (it fits in a wardrobe or under the bed), available sounds are good, it's easy to play once you get used to the small dimensions.

The only drawback I've found is that the pedals for hi-hat and kick are more or less two switches. The pedal just opens or closes a contact, there is no possibility to have a sort of "dynamic" as it is for all other pads of the drums. I mean that whether you kick hard or softly you always get the same sound where as for the pads it's different, you can get different sounds/volume depending on the way you beat the pad).

You can use it with headphones to play at night without bothering the neighbors (but if you play hard you can bother people living with you).

A 7 year-old kid also liked it a lot, so if you have a son/daughter is OK for him/her too.

Great

Haven't got enough room for a full kit in my home studio and not being Phil Collins thought no point spending a fortune on another make, really surprised at the sound quality of this really enjoyable to play and great for setting beats for Logic Pro etc.

Very good sounding Drum machine!

The presets sound very good, very well made, solid construction.

Also the included pads are very comfortable and very sensitive.

Totally recommended!

Perfect for Beginners

This kit was a pretty good buy for me, it is easy to carry around, easy to set up and easier to play.

The packaging it came in was perfect, nothing was out of place and I received the equipment in Good time.

I have and would continue to recommend this website to anyone who ever is looking to buy an sort of a musical instrument.

Very good for training and development of pace.

As a beginner drummer is very suitable. The only thing I liked that the drums are very small and not always you get to the center. But to generate pace and learning.

Thank You very much. Son is excited. Tool provides more opportunities than they had hoped. One set contains both the ordinary drums and African drums, which he very much wanted. There are songs. There is the metronome

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its better than I expected!I bought it for 5 years old son and it was 100% sure shot!

Great

excellent instrument, very good quality stuff, very good with several accessories (including pedal and drumsticks). With PC connection

Great tool!

I wanted a compact drum machine and found this product to be very useful. Later I had bought a electronic drum kit as well but this product still has its usefulness. I also bring it to gigs to add additional sounds and it creates great atmosphere.