
Sweetwater stocks many different types of drum controllers, but in general, they can either be built into your drum set or work as standalone devices. Giving you music at the tip of your fingers, our percussion pads feel and sound just as good as classical instruments. These help you expand and develop your drumming skills, providing amazing control and creative freedom. In general, electronic drum controllers and pads are small and easily portable percussion devices that you can program to play a variety of sounds and samples.

Whether you’re an aspiring drummer or a professional with years of experience, electronic drum controllers and multipads are a welcome addition to any arsenal.

You can also just put a piece(was it 2 or 3 layers?) of electrical tape under those MPD pads(sake on MPK mki) to get rid of the air gap between pad and sensor. I replaced them with pads from mpcstuff now the MPK49 pads are better than my real mpc pads. I bought an Akai MPK49 and the pads were awful.

If you don't mind disasembling new gear I'd recommend getting a cheap Akai pad controller and replacing the pad with one from.
