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Ion Audio iED04 Desktop Electronic Drum Pad | 
 enlarge | Brand: Ion
Category: Musical Instruments
List Price: $299.95
Buy New: $179.97
You Save: $119.98 (40%)
New (3) from $179.97
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 8776
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 12.5
Dimensions (in): 21 x 8 x 18
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: IED04
Model: ION IED04
UPC: 411378016652
EAN: 0855960000672
ASIN: B000I4YBLW
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW in box never opened. Full warranty, box is in excellent shape! Drums are sent as fast as possible, with tracking. Includes headphones, & drumsticks. Perfect addition for someone recording in Apple Garageband!
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| Features:
| • | 8 natural feeling, velocity-sensitive drum pads | | • | Built-in professional drum machine so you can record and play back your own beats | | • | 50 Preset and 50 User drum kits with 233 sounds assignable to any pad | | • | Built-in rhythm patterns to complement your playing | | • | Large LCD display with easy-to-navigate interface |
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Product Description
Want to play the drums? Now you can enjoy practicing and playing drums without disturbing the household with this portable, electronic drum kit. Ion Audio iED04 features eightdrum pads and a built-in electronic drum machine with professional sounds and features. You can create and record your own beats from scratch or play along with the built-in patterns. With the Digital Drum Station, you can practice quietly with headphones, or plug it into an amplifier to jam with other musicians. Drum sticks and headphones are included! Dynamic Articulation stereo samples with reverb and ambience for realistic playing 2 inputs for external kick and hi-hat pedals (sold separately) Stereo input to play along with your CD or MP3 player MIDI output to play external MIDI devices High-quality 24-bit stereo and headphone outputs Lightweight, durable enclosure Drum sticks and headphones included
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 A Great Machine December 31, 2007
Amy Ketchum
I have had other drumpad sets in the past that were not very good. A friend introduced me to higher quality pads (Yamaha) and I can honestly say that these pads are of equal quality and have a lot more features and options. A lot of fun, this drumpad set comes with adapater, earphones, and drumsticks. Midi in and out, over 200 preset sounds, soft pads with realistic sensitivity, tempo control, etc. A great tool for computer music. I would suggest that this unit is of equal quality to many big name brands in this price range (under $250).
 Just Plain Decent!? December 10, 2007
Jordan A. Parrott (Cincinnati, OH United States)
So this thing does what it says it does. I use it mostly for midi triggering with software and it works just OK!
The real issue I have with it is that on each pad, the trigger works only best directly in the middle of the pad. So, what does that mean? Well, it means that if you are just banging away on this thing and you hear some non triggering, or odd sounds, well that means you've strayed too far away from the middle of the pad and it is not responding well. Not what I was anticipating, so therefore it is disappointing. Also, on the very outer edges of each individual pad, there is an unknown sound that is played and I am not sure why!? So thats another negative. As I am more into electronic genres of music (ie breaks, dnb, electro, etc) I was not primarily getting this device for its built in sounds. With that said, it does have some decent sounds on it. Very few for my styles of music. If you have similar interests, you will not find a good set of built-in sounds for the electronic genres. The R&B and HipHop sounds are decent so I'll probably use those some, and maybe some live kits for dnb and breaks. But all in all, better off triggering better sounds.
All in all, I would probably say to go ahead and pay more for a Roland trigger pad and do not get this thing unless you budget is seriously tight like mine was. I'm glad I have it but, the quality was not as I was expecting.
Believe It Or Not! December 3, 2007
The Information (United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
UPDATED 11/17/08
Before the launch of this product the Alesis Control Pad was the only 8-pad midi drum trigger in the $200 range. The Control Pad redefined the industry so much at its price Guitar Center wouldn't even order them due to no profit margin. This one is good for the consumer!
Ion-Audio, lower division of the Alesis company, has now cranked out a very affordable nice rubbery 8-pad unit with a MIDI-OUT! It also has a built in SR-16 drum machine, which is an industry staple. Set to fixed midi notes, each of the 8 pads can send out midi. With software like Reason any drummer can record using drum sticks, and if needed assign the performance to an appropriate sound. Using Reason's various instruments, each of the 8 pads can be mapped to a different sound! This is an amazing capability for a unit so cheap which makes this product in the category of "unheard of until now". The pads feel like good heavy duty rubber and are extremely sensitive. With velocity mapping in the NN-XT a perfect patch can be created for your drumming style. They don't feel amazing like a high end Roland pad but remember the price.
For a tech-minded Reason user this is a brilliant and cheap device that can be used professionally. For example, with the additional use of a couple of software programs "Bome's Midi Translator" and "MidiYoke" the 8 pads can be assigned to send any notes allowing each pad to work on a different channel within Reason's Redrum Drum Computer! Using Bome's Midi Translator to build a patch for this purpose only needs to be done once. This is truly exciting power especially for those on a budget.
The ION iED04 comes with headphones and some cheap drumsticks as well, making the box an incredible value. If you are seeking the absolute cheapest 8-pad midi trigger system, this is it! Without USB this unit needs to be plugged into a standard midi interface, which could add to the cost of getting it up and running if you have no existing midi ports. I'm connecting it with a basic Yamaha USB midi interface.
Professionals and students alike can use this as a 4-in-1: practice pad, live instrument, midi control pad, and stand alone drum machine.
KUDOS to the creators of this very valuable and impressive package.
 BAD! October 18, 2007
Pearce Dawkings
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
one pad Stoped working 3 days after. with regular easy use.
no response from support. none whatsoever!
 Good for the price September 17, 2007
Martin Espinoza
Bought this item online for just under $130. I read a lot about it before getting it - including the above comments (all great comments, by the way) - so I knew what to expect. Once I started messing around with it I felt compelled to make some minor "DIY" changes. The first thing that frustrated me was the fact that the foot pedal input for the bass drum is not velocity sensitive, although the drum pad assigned to the bass drum is. Also the assigned positions for the pads are awkward; the crash is where I think a mid-range tom should be and the closed high hat pad is where the low-range tom should be. Lastly, the pads, though velocity sensitive, do not trigger well when hit away from the center. The difference in volume between the exact spot in the middle of the pad where the piezo is located and just half an inch off drove me crazy. Well, with the wife and 10-month-old son away for the weekend, I went a little bit overboard trying to fix things. I lifted (with great difficulty) the rubber pad off the front of the encasing, pulled up the foam padding on top of the piezos and reassigned the pads to more appropriate positions. This required removing the back of the device and carefully pulling the piezos through small slits in the encasing. You might also need to extend the length of the wire hookups for certain piezos (use very thin wire). I also took small squares of aluminum flashing and glued them with 5-minute epoxy directly on top of the piezos so that the pads would trigger more evenly. The last thing I did was mount a foot pedal input to the side of the device and connect it directly to the pad assigned to the bass drum. You can do this by simply connecting two thin wires to the two wires coming off the bass drum piezo and wiring them to the new input. This gives you a velocity sensitive kick! I didn't want to mess with the bass pedal input already there.
So, that's what I did. There's still some cross-triggering, maybe a little bit more. A more careful DIY wiz could probably do a better job, but I'm pretty happy with the results.
I figure when I get a little more time, I'll redo the entire pad setup using a softer, quieter rubber surface and maybe a better piezo triggering mechanism (the aluminum flashing didn't improve the triggering as much as I had hoped).
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