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Expanding Your Performance - Simplified!
Compact and feature-packed - the Alesis SamplePad 4 is an all-in-one percussion and sample-playing instrument perfect for drummers, musicians, producers and live performers. It comes equipped with four responsive, LED-illuminated rubber pads, dual zone trigger input and eight preset kits. With a built-in library of the most commonly requested percussion and electronic drum sounds and the ability to load samples, the only limit is your imagination. For even more flexibility, you can tune and add reverb to your sounds. Intuitive navigation makes it easy to browse through your kits and you can drag & drop your samples via USB on a Mac or PC without removing your SD card. Adding something new to your next performance has never been this easy.
Express Yourself
Capture every subtle nuance of your performance with SamplePad 4’s four velocity sensitive pads - whether it’s drum sounds, loops or one-shot melodics, this performance pad guarantees maximum expressive capability!
Superior Sound Content
Right-out-the-box, SamplePad doesn’t disappoint. Preloaded with a built-in library of the 25 most commonly requested percussion and electronic drum sounds, mapped across 8 ready-to-play kits, SamplePad offers immediate creative potential from the get-go!
Customise your Sound In 3 Easy Steps
Looking to add some custom sounds to your performance? SamplePad 4 is the solution you have been looking for. Load up a standard SD card with your select samples, insert your SD card into SamplePad 4 and assign your samples to the pads - it’s that easy!
Frank Nance
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2025
This is my 2nd Sample pad in less than 3 years. 1st one had the top left pad fail so I bought a new one. Purchased on 7/7/24 and the bottom right pad has failed now. Waiting to hear from customer support. Very unhappy that Alesis has no phone support.
José Guemez Be
Reviewed in Mexico on February 10, 2025
Todo bien y muy rapido
N. Mastalski
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2025
Although the on board sounds aren't very good the pad does what it needs to do, just get some good samples, and your set
kodiakkodiak
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2024
I really wanted this to work well. I like the compact form factor and the look. I like the light up pads. but the the pads are awful and not responsive enough. the two small pads do not trigger consistantly at all. in fact they dont trigger most of the time unless you really pound on it.i was very disappointed in this. The pads just arent sensitive enough. not playable at all with hands and you really have to whack it hard with the sticks. no light drumming.I honestly dont know how a product like this makes it to market.I also tried out the Kat ktmp1 - and LOVE it. the form factor isnt quite as nice looking, but it WORKS. you can tap with fingers or sticks. the pads all work. theyre easy to set up. you get a few stages of velocity with hands or sticks.I also tried the Keith McMillen Boppad. which is also really great. it feels very well made and i like that its usb bus powered so is plug and play with an ipad or daw. its advertised as having more layers of velocity and cc 'zones' on each pad, but in practice it wasnt very precise and that feature isnt really that usable for me. I went with the kat mostly bc of price.do not buy the alesis. those other are real drum pads. the alesis is total garbage. returned.
JannaVdp
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 27, 2024
The sound quality on this is brilliant and my husband found it easy to use!
luigi saccani
Reviewed in Italy on April 21, 2024
complicato da configurare e ha qualche ritardo su rullate veloci,ho una batteria a pad alesis ritardo zero affidabile LA SIMPLE PAD 4 E DISCRETA MA HA DEI RITARDI
BenOA
Reviewed in France on December 4, 2023
le bouton marche stop ne réagit pas toujoursl interface est vraiment pauvreet il faut recharger les loops avant de pouvoir les jouer
brentranome
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2023
I bought this to replace my Samplepad Pro (8 Pad) which was giving me serious issues with crackling, and eventually went into a full boot error. This little guy does the trick considering I only used 4 pads on the Pro.Easy to load from an SD card, and this one allows layering between on-board sounds and card-loaded samples, which the Samplepad Pro does not. Would highly recommend for anyone looking to add some pads to their acoustic kit.
Kate Munn
Reviewed in Canada on May 20, 2021
I felt intimidated to use this, it’s my first piece of equipment that plugs in. I received a drum trigger for a gift and watched some YouTube videos and visited Alesis’ website and downloaded their many extra free loops and samples.When it came down to use I was blown away at the ease of use. For someone who can feel overwhelmed by tech I can say that I felt comfortable setting it up, adding and using a kick drum trigger. I have added some info my own loops I wrote on a synth. I use it on a snare stand to the left of my hats and am comfortable with that. It’s opened up a whole new world of drumming for me, at, what I feel, to be a very reasonable price.Only purchase 32 gig SD cards as anything larger can not be read. I’m very, very excited about this purchase!
Tiki Tom
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2020
I really like this 4-pad percussion instrument. The sounds are great and the device navigation is straightforward. The two issues I have with the unit: 1) The thing shuts itself off after 1/2 hour of no activity. This is not good during a gig where you don't use it on every song and it turns off right before you need it again. 2) It has a lot of built-in drum samples, but are fairly light on the percussion samples. Therefore, because I bought it mostly for percussion sounds, I had to go to other sample web sites and import and convert other's samples to get what I wanted.
Michael Noah
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2019
The custom sampling is an awesome thing to have. You can literally add anything to your Drum Pad... Also comes pre-loaded with a good number of kits to work with.I like the Midi capability, and the smooth design.Down-side though is I might have noticed a bit of cross-talk between hitting one pad close to the other.I think this might be solvable with a firmware update, but overall, it's a really good device.
Sarah
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2018
After reading pretty mixed reviews on the 4 pad product I decided to purchase it and give it a go. As much as I’d love to buy the spd-sx from Roland my usage of a drum pad doesn’t justify the cost.I’ve used it a couple weeks now. I use it solely for live settings. Haven’t really had the line out buzz others have mentioned. I did hear it the first time I used the headphone jack to test the unit but haven’t heard it since. I run the pad with just mono out thru a direct box.The volume output is on the lower end. I have to max out the main output volume and the volume of the samples has to be at 10. For the softer samples it’s somewhat difficult to hear over the rest of the mix.All in all for the price it does what I need it too and didn’t cost $800. I also use a Roland snare trigger and run it thru the pad. It was pretty much plug and play. No double triggering and I use it on my normal snare head. It’s a good unit for the price point if you just need something for samples here and there. If I used it consistently for almost every song I’d probably skip this and save up for the spd-sx.
R. A. Head
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2017
I've had this for around a year now. Use it live exclusively. So far, I've had ZERO problems. IT's been a very solid piece of gear. I downloaded all the Alesis sounds onto the card, but mostly I use the built in sounds. I don't need a ton of samples these days, but I do need things like handclap. I could get tamborine/cowbell setups, but our mixer is out of inputs, so I use these electronic versions. Nice that it has built in reverb!I've yet to use an external trigger, but I"m thinking about it. I could use a small pad, right honey?Pros: good clean sounds, small size fits anywhere. Pads are nice. Solid construction and dependable performance. .Cons: I'd like a brighter view screen for outdoor shows. Not a big con, but I thought I'd mention it. Once in a while, the SD card pops loose, and I have to push it back in. This happens when casing / uncasing it, User error, but if it were inset somehow where one couldn't accidentally hit it, it would be better.Wish list. Make the same item with two more bar shaped pads along the bottom with a couple of more inputs, and you could built an entire drum set with this. Would be cool if it came in a roundish shape.
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