Yeah! Drumming again! This is just what the Octapad should have been. The mechanical noise is about the same as the DTXPress pads, so this is quite drummable even late in the evening, and it’s really compact. 9 pads, plus two trigger inputs. It turned out I could patch my modular synth in such a way that an ordinary switch pedal can function as a (non-dynamic) kick drum pedal. I can also send triggers to it using an analog sequencer, or just about any method to generate analog gate signals, to trigger the drum module. And every time it triggers, it also sends a MIDI note, so I have a nice gate-to-midi converter 🙂