Roland SPD-30-BK Octapad Reviews

Excellent for Arabic

Excellent quality But the drawback that I encountered is that you cannot have absolute control over the settings and adding external sounds. On the contrary, the device is the one that sets the limits of control for you.

i sold it because there was no way to put sounds

Outstanding Instrument

I was using the Electronic drum set, Now I can replace with this awesome octapad and world-class experience and joy.

Excellent Value, Recommended

I use this as a physical controller for creating more natural drumming phrases. I decided to purchase it after originally selecting another product, that left me frustrated with all its severe ghost triggering of pads that i never had hit - so it was impossible not to notice that this product from Roland has no such issues. The build quality is fine, despite the fact that the main body is made of plastic. The audio quality is excellent, however one must have a taste for Roland's drum samples in order to be fully satisfied with this one. I, myself prefer a slightly different drum sound palette. Even so, the percussion samples from Asia and other parts of the world are excellent and intelligently organized. I recommend this one.

Superb

For what it is, it doesn't get any better than this. Robust, responsive and fun. Must say I don't use the sounds of the Octapad itself - just use it as a MIDI controller for Ableton Live drum racks and Kontakt instruments, which works just fine.