I have owned the Alesis Perc-Pad for several months now, I needed some fun sounds in our cover band and it did the trick for awhile. I saw that this had just come out so took a chance and ordered one. First off the sounds are great, every bit as good as the Alesis unit however there are 25 more here ! This pad has 50 vs the Alesis 25 and they are all usable and really open up the scope of color you can add to your drumming ! I use mine in combination and as an add on to my Acustic drums, its a lot of fun and really ads needed color and cool sounds to some of the disco and funk songs my band covers ! If your considering the Alesis parcpad..Don’t, buy this instead, 50 sounds vs 25, the ability to trigger your kick drum which the aleis doesn’t do, Midi control and USB hookup to trigger anything you want from a laptop ! All for the same price as the Alesis ! My Percpad is now on Ebay as this unit is built just as well but has twice the feature set for the same exact amount of money ! Great job KAT ! I love it ! By the way it uses the same mount as the alesis also so no issues there, its standard.