Anyone using Roland PDA120LS-BK?

[gkurtenbach]

I noticed that the Roland PDA120LS-BK claims to have eliminated hotspots? Has anyone tried it?

https://www.roland.com/ca/products/pda120ls-bk/

I have PD125 which has a real strong hot spot. Edrumin helps with that but I wondering if this new roland pad would be better.

thanks!

[Gregooooze]

Hello,

Yes i confirm it's a wonderful (and beautiful tiny) snare with no hotspot ! but I didn't manage to get the positional sensing to work with my E10 but at the same time the roland commercial doc indicates that it's not implemented inside it (positional sensing feature)... surprising for a pad like that... snif... but at the hotspot level yes I confirm that it doesn't exist with it.

I switched to an edrum-tec "serie s" which manages positional sensing and sometimes I have hotspots

[gkurtenbach]

Thanks that's great info. I think I would trade positional sensing for no hotspot since I think I don't have positional sensing in steven slate drums and have never missed it. Whereas I sometimes struggle to get consistent velocities unless I"m slamming full 127 hits all the time.

Very interesting that you still have hotspots with the drum-tec snare. I was considering maybe getting their pro-series snare since they demo it as not having much of a hotspot. However, I find that hard to believe with the sensor in the middle.

thanks for your advice!