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One foot, one hand is fine, both both hands means you will miss a beat on the other kit, no way around that other than having a sound guy that can mute it for you. Sounds simple enough? Not when you have switched to already playing another kit that is providing the back beat to a song. The first is that to stop it Looping / Playing, you have to first depress a foot switch, then strike two assigned pads. The Octapad, for all it's amazing qualities, for some reason, has two major flaws in my view. The band were very interested in what I was trying to do, but almost had the 'not sure what is going to happen' look about them and when my worst nightmare happened at the rehearsal, things were not looking great. I only had a week to my first show and with my arm muscles still badly damaged, as a result, there was just one rehearsal planned, so it was flying by the seat of my pants to use the Octapad as I was already under pressure with this being only my second show since 1985 and the 2nd time the band had played on stage together as a unit. Like most guys, I'm not one for wading through a manual, so I was amazed that almost instantly, I found myself able to create a 'Phrase Loop', basically different layers of drums, or effect sounds. I was after a device that could basically allow me to replace a second drummer/ percussionist in the Pink Floyd tribute band that I play in called Time To Breathe.Īt our first show, I'd used the Roland SPD-S, but I didn't want to simply trigger a sample, I wanted to actually play all the parts live and on paper, the Octapad SPD-30 certainly seemed to allow me to do this.