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The USB MIDI Pad Controllers

Some beatmakers who use software strictly for their beats also are slightly envious of some aspect of hardware. Drum pads are universally liked. Consider them controllers in the same aspects of USB MIDI Keyboards with the look of their drum machine cousins. USB Drum Pads have no sounds of their own and work by you using your music production software to assign sounds to their individual pads. The actual installation is usually simple, on windows it's plug-in-play for most anything USB, still you should refer to the manual to install any additional software or drivers contained in a disk or online.

RECOMMENDED PAD CONTROLLERS (Sorted by price, lowest to highest)


M-Audio Trigger Finger-16 MIDI Drum Control Surface
Price: $149.99


Akai MPD24 USB MIDI Pad Controller
Price: $199.99


Korg padKONTROL USB MIDI Controller
Price: $199.99


Akai MPD32 MIDI USB Software Control Surface
Price: $299.99