@Bouccledor

2 months ago

Hi Justin, Great review like always. I'm a professional musician and I used the Alesis strike pro for years on stage and I I feel there's something you don't mention. Alesis customer service is horrid for the average Joe. My module didn't turn on anymore recently and Alesis did not show any support to my problem. I was out of warranty so they acted like it wasn't their problem anymore, I live in France so maybe the customer service is not that great for us on the old continent which I understand but they didn't even mention that they were going to release this kit. I went for the mimic pro instead. I can't count the number of soldering I had to do because of the poor built quality, two rides dead in less than 2 weeks (finally went for Roland cy15r), the hi hat broke fast, the crash broke, ALL the cables going to the center and rim piezo's on the toms, kick and snare broke. I had to constantly glue the foam rods back. That was a pain in the ass. I hope the built quality and especially the soldering quality has changed on that one. On the Module, software updates and follow up side, same thing I hope for Alesis users it will be fixed. The software updates on the strike pro were minor at best (there were no rimshots on that module and never were because they didn't think to bring this up in any of their updates). The only advantage of the strike pro was that I could import my own multilayer instruments and the number of outputs I got for the price, but even in that regards that new strata prime feels like a step back, not being able to go for a proper multitrack, even through a snake cable like the mimic does and now that pearl allows you to build multilayered instruments (because they do care about improving their module) I don't see any advantage to the strata. Not having positional sensing is another worry, will it be fixed through software updates ? I wouldn't be so sure given my experience with Alexis, you'd better be happy with what you have because it won't change for ten years. Last point (sorry for that hell of a long comment). For all those Edrum companies out there I hope they'll understand that having to buy a completely new modules each time is not possible anymore. We live in the era of AI and technology, why don't they offer big updates with additional hardware and software when really needed to go from an older kit generation to a newer ?

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