Professional Drums, Powerful Sound
The DM10 Studio Kit is a professional, six-piece electronic drum set with the groundbreaking DM10 drum module, natural-feeling RealHead drum pads, low-noise DMPad Cymbals, and the compact, flexible StageRack. You will immediately notice the DM10’s outstanding sound quality. This new drum sound module contains authentic drum, cymbal, and percussion sounds built from real samples of classic studio drums and prized cymbals. Drummers will find some of the most in-demand acoustic drum sounds from legendary drum brands, a huge arsenal of top producers’ go-to snare drums, real American, Canadian, Chinese, and Turkish cymbals, and a choice selection of classic drum machine and electronic percussion sounds that have fueled the biggest hit records.
Cutting Edge Features
- DM10 high-definition drum module with 12 trigger inputs and mixer
- Load custom third-party sound sets or control computer software, all via USB
- RealHead Kick Pad, 10-inch snare and (4) 8-inch toms (dual-zone drum pads with real mylar heads)
- DMPad cymbals: 12-inch hi-hat (with RealHat Pedal), 12-inch crash, 14-inch 3-zone ride, and 12-inch cymbal
- Compact, 4-post StageRack with integrated boom cymbal arms
- Premium sound library of uncompressed samples from real drums and cymbals
- Dynamic Articulation changes sounds’ timbre along with dynamics for realism
- Play along and record yourself with the sequencer
- Mix input for practicing with CD and MP3 players
- This product is class-compliant; it does not require drivers when connected via USB
Exclusive Dynamic Articulation Technology
Discerning ears will notice that each sound is actually a series of different samples; multiple dynamic-level samples and articulations are all built in so as you play harder or softer, the drum or cymbal changes its timbre, not just its volume. This engineered realism is known as Dynamic Articulation, an Alesis exclusive. You can play with or without reverb for different room sounds and enjoy a wide variety of rimshots, rim clicks and different stick-placement sounds on the cymbals. For example, a hi-hat’s sound depends on a number of factors: how open or closed the pedal is, how hard it is struck, and other variables resulting in 40 different sounds – plus foot chick and heel splash.
The DM10 Studio Kit features Alesis’ acoustic-feeling RealHead pads in 10-inch and 8-inch sizes. The dual-zone pads feature real mylar drumheads and real triple-flanged counterhoops for the feel you demand. The snare and tom pads are dual zone, enabling you to perform rimshots, rim clicks or assign other sounds such as cymbals, gongs and cowbells on the tom rims. RealHead snare and tom pads mount on standard 10.5mm L-rods with low-slip, knurled mounting surfaces. You can use virtually any single or double kick pedal with the RealHead Kick Pad, or split the DM10’s kick input with a Y-cable and connect an optional second kick pad for the pedal feel you prefer. The DM10 Studio Kit includes a set of four low-noise DMPad Cymbals. The kit includes a DMPad Hi-Hat, a DMPad Crash with choke, a triple-zone DMPad Ride with choke, and a DMPad Cymbal. DMPad Cymbals provide a rubberized playing surface for a great balance between natural cymbal feel and low stick-on-pad sound. The Ride and one Crash cymbal feature large choke triggers on the undersides for accurate cymbal control. The DMPad Ride also features multi-zone triggering on the bell, face and edge. The DMPad Hi-Hat Cymbal and RealHat Pedal give you continuously variable control from wide open to tightly closed.
Load New Sounds Easily via USB, Load-In For the Gig Made Easy
The DM10 module not only has a breathtaking collection of sounds onboard, it is also the world’s first drum-sound module that enables you to load new sound sets via USB connection from your computer. This means that your sounds will always stay fresh, current and cutting edge. You can also use the DM10 as a trigger-to-MIDI interface for performing and tracking with software drum modules such as BFD, Toontrack and Reason, among others. For practice, you can play along with the tracks in the DM10’s internal sequencer, mix in a smartphone other MP3 player and play along. The DM10 module has 12 trigger inputs, perfect for creating custom configurations. The DM10’s top-panel mixer gives you easy access to creating custom mixes.
The StageRack is the backbone of the DM10 Studio Kit. With its rugged four-post design and tough 1 1/2-inch tubing, the StageRack provides supreme stability under the most serious drumming duress. The StageRack’s clamps, mounts, and integrated boom cymbal arms are all fully adjustable with plenty of flexibility to securely fasten your drums, cymbals, and module exactly where you want. You won’t need tools to make most adjustments so you can spend less time setting up and more time rocking out. Large enough to easily accommodate additional drums and cymbals – even acoustic drum, cymbal, and percussion instruments – the StageRack still takes up only a fraction of the space of an acoustic kit.
$ 1,199.00
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108 of 110 people found the following review helpful
 A Great Kit- worth two or three times the price IMHO, By
This review is from: Alesis DM10 Studio Kit Six-Piece Professional Electronic Drum Set (Electronics)
I am a long time drummer and will always prefer acoustic drums; however, edrums do provide excellent practice and recording opportunities. Having a wife and young son and being busy with work and life, I usually only get a chance to practice late at night. For years I just couldn’t practice on the kit but then I got into edrums (note, I still gig on acoustic kits). I started with a Pintech kit that had a module from Pintech (EZ)- I moved to an Alesis D4, then a Yamaha DTX2.0 and then a Roland TD6V- the kit was nice for practice, but I was never satisfied with the way ghost notes were expressed (etiher no sound at all or way too loud even when striking very softly). I also found the mesh head too boncey to use for a practice kit, but that is my personal opion- many people love mesh heads (they are quieter, feel good, and can be much easier to play faster). Since I use an ekit to practice I really don’t want it to be easier to play faster – I don’t want to try to execute something on a gig (while I’m playing acoustics) and find that I can’t really do it on a straight up kit.
I had a lot of experience with Alesis’ D4 and DM5 modules and knew that they were solid (there are still guys using D4 with acoustic triggers- they really are solid units). WHen the DM10 came out I was very interested- especially given the price. I needed to replace some components on my ekit (frankenkit) and decided that it was time to move to a new kit altogether. When Aleis came out with the DM10 Studio 2011 (four leg rack) I new it was time to pull the trigger- then when it went on sale a couple weeks ago (down to an incredible 9) there was no way I could NOT buy it (the module itself is 9, which I think is a great price for what you get). I see people griping about needed to tweak it- the thing is almost every edrum kit needs tweaks before it feels and plays the way you want it too. For me, the DM10 was actually the fastest/easiest to tweak. Of course, I always used the Pintech kit with other manufactures modules and I never had the top of the line modules, but it always took significantly longer to get the other modules dialed in. I don’t think it makes since to look at acoustic and electric drums as either/or- I don’t believe you can ever replace the feel of a great acoustic kit- but it is often not possible to play an acoustic kit. Also, edrums open up worlds of sound that would cost a fortune to access via acoustic instruments. Add to that recording benefits (no need to buy mics, get a good room, etc.) and edrums are a wonderful tool to have in the tool box. One drawback is that edrums do go out of date or obsolete relatively quickly (consider that I gig with acoustic kits from 1968, the 1980’s, 1990s as well as from the present). AN ekit is likely obsolete in less than a decade. With this in mind I just can’t justify spending the 5-7K for Yamaha and Roland’s top end kits. Yes, they are excellent kits, but I don’t see paying almost ten times what I gave for the DM10. Yes, I agree that you get what you pay for; however, every once in a while you do get a whole lot more- that is the case here. If you are a frustrated drummer looking for a way to practice late at night you really need to check out this kit, I couldn’t be happier with it. 0
93 of 115 people found the following review helpful
 Could have been a real winner,
This review is from: Alesis DM10 Studio Kit Six-Piece Professional Electronic Drum Set (Electronics)
I looked forward for the DM10 Studio Kit to become available for months, and even downloaded the manual from Alesis when it became availble so I could hit the ground running when I made my purchase. When the unit showed up on my door step I grabbed the hand truck and axiously moved it to its new home. I opened the box and everything was neatly packed and protected. I began unpacking all of the individual boxes and frame peices and spread them around the room. I located the installation instructions. The instructions for putting the entire unit together was on an 8×11 peice of paper in 4 different languages with the diagrams and printing so small it was difficult to read. I immediately went to the Alesis website and down loaded the instructions so I could easily zoom in on my laptop. Problem 1 solved. The frame was fairly easy to put together and rigid enough to support all drums and accesseries. All of the clamps that hold the frame, cymbal and drums to the frame are plastic and I accidently cracked one by hand tightning. Would have been better to have aluminum clamps. There are no ball joints like you would find on an acoustic set for ajusting the tom drums,as it is an L rod that allows side to side ajustment. The clamp attached to the frame will allow up and down movement but can be tricky to get at once the tom is mounted. I mounted the sound module to the frame with the included clamp and proceded to run the cables to the triggers on the drums and cymbals. All cables were clearly marked as well as the back of the sound module. There were two cables in which the desciption did not match what was written on the back of the sound module, I just plugged them into the next available spaces. The cables are pre-cut to length so you cannot vary the placements of the drums and cymbals. Even when placed like the instructions show there is not a sufficient amount of cable to neatly attach to the frame. I actually had to move the sound module to under the hihat cymbal as to not stress the wires on the back of the sound module.
The one major design flaw seem to be the base drum module. It is very top heavy and has no support legs on the sides. It wobbles alot while playing, especially on carpet as it actually tipped over. Be careful that you retract the spikes before putting it on hardwood, vinyl or ceramic tile floors. I also could not get much sound out of the base drum pedal. I think it may have been defective as no matter what I did the volume would not increase like I could get the rest of the triggers to do. The hihat pedal felt nothing like a “real hihat pedal” even though thats what Alesis calls it. I could not get it to calibrate and perform as advertised. Do not buy this unit thinking that when you are done putting it together that it is ready to play. This unit needs alot of calibration and adjustment. Plan on spending a couple of hours doing this. The sounds that the module produces are good and the menues are easy to navigate. As far as the drum heads are concerned, Alesis claims in their advertising it is just like playing acoustic drums and no need to change your playing technique. It could not be farther from the truth. The drum heads themselves may be real but thats about it. I do not know what the material directly underneath the head is but it is a hard spongy type material and fairly noisy. I was impressed with the cymbals as they seemed high quality like you would find on a Roland or Yamaha set. Like I mentioned earlier I had problems with calibration and getting sound out of the base drum pad. I called Alesis waiting on hold 45 to 60 minutes at a time and giving up. I should not have to wait that long. Just being curious I called Roland and Yamahas customer service departments and had a rep within minutes. After that little experiment, I re-packaged the entire unit and sent it back for a refund. I am now saving up for a Roland or Yamaha unit. 0
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
 Worth What You Pay – Additional Advice,
This review is from: Alesis DM10 Studio Kit Six-Piece Professional Electronic Drum Set (Electronics)
I bought this kit a couple weeks ago and so far, and if I could sum it up in one sentence, you get what you pay for. I paid 0 after tax total for this kit with Black Friday savings. This is what I have experienced with this set so far.
-Not much in terms of directions for set up. However piecing everything together is not very difficult from the pictures they have. It might take you a half an hour+ to put together. -Make sure you go online to the Alesis site and get ALL of the latest firmware updates. -The kit, AFTER all the firmware, sound, etc. updates is still not perfect. There’s still a little bit of crosstalk and you must tweek some of your crosstalk and sensitivity settings a bit. There is a terrible crosstalk issue between the snare head and rim that results in the snare “missing hits”. THIS IS RESOLVED by turning the Zone CrossTalk up all the way and the other CrossTalk settings all the way down to 0. This is not a CLEAR solution, as the other XTalk settings must be down all the way, and I only founding by searching through their forums. -Read your manual, specifically XTalk settings, sensitivity, retrigger, threshold, velocity, and layers. In order to tweak your kit specifically, you must be familiar with these settings. If you’re a “figure it out” kinda guy like me, I have one piece of advice. DONT. DO NOT. LET IT GO. At least for these drums. -This kit does have a large variety of instrument samples and kits, but it’s hard to come by studio sounding drums and cymbals. The vast majority of the kits already on the drums are there to SHOWCASE VARIETY in their sounds. If you want to start jamming to some rock or metal right out of the box, you will have to build a kit first if you want to be satisfied. But I did find a kit that I like so I can jam to any studio quality songs and not sound out of place. -It does not come with a pedal. However you can EASILY attach any bass pedal to the base of the trigger and pedal away. It even works VERY well with double bass under any circumstances. -The kit is fairly loud. If you got this set to not drive your family or neighbors crazy with an accoustic set, you may have to consider getting the Mesh Head conversion! If I were to make a comparison, it is just as loud, if not a tiny bit louder, than if you were say playing a on Rock Band or Guitar Hero drums. It’s good for daytime drumming, but I would advise against doing it while people are trying to sleep. -The hi-hat and other cymbal chokes are not realistic. The sound drops very fast. That’s not to say that you can’t do more advanced hi-hat grooves, because you absolutely can and make them sound good. It just requires a bit of a different feel. IN SUMMARY: 0 |
