All user reviews for the Roland TD-6V Module

I bought the full TD-6V.
Very good quality for the price!
However, there are a couple of snags:

- Not many crashes. And the variations are very limited. You hit...or you don't hit. It's hard to get good nuances.

- The module is to tear your hair out.. It would've been nice to have a wheel or numeric pad to be able to enter directly the kit or music you want...because it's really slow. It takes way too much time!! Another headache is when I fiddle with the songs. Say I pick Song 4. If i get the wrong kit and tap a pad to trigger a sample, the Song stops to go to Sample 110...and then you need to go back hammering the button to start the song right from the beginning. It's not well thought-out.

- The reduced number of customizable kits: One.. Actually, every kit can be customized but then you lose the original one (although you can always go back to the factory settings). You only have kit 99 available as a "User Kit." That's not very nice.

Other than that, I have a ball. I have it connected to a PM-10 (which is perfect for an apartment). Many kit sounds are useless, but that's always the same for all modules. But all others are quite satisfying. Be it for rock, metal, Jazz or techno, you can surely find what you want: The snares sound pretty real (I started out playing acoustic drums) and the kick drums have a lot of presence.

I've been using it for four years.

I tested the td3 (for beginners), the td12 (excellent module), and td20 (the best, the price is too high), ddrum4 is the rolls.

It's a good module that allows you to do lots of things. There are 100 ready-to-use kits that can be edited as you wish and you can even create your own.
It has a metronome and pre-recorded songs whose drums can be muted so you can play on top...You can tap a pad to trigger sequences.

Sounds are all right, but you obviously get what you paid for. The Roland quality is obvious.
Don't forget that when you buy a module you will use 5 sounds, tops. As soon as you find a drum kit that sounds close to what you are looking for, you'll forget about the rest of sounds in the module.
You need to be crazy to buy a module for $2000 to use only 2 or 3 kits...at least that's my opinion!

I use it to work at home without making my wife's ears bleed, but outside of my place I play a real trigger kit with real cymbals.

I don't regret my purchase. It's good gear, the sound is all right with a good sound system or headphones. To me, Roland is the go-to brand for e-drums, ahead of ddrum. So, yes, I'd buy this product again.

This is a great drum kit for the standard electric users. I've had my kit for 3 years now and it still works good. I've have not had to replace anything on the set at all. I wish the stand that everything connects to was taller. The pads could be bigger. It could have more realistic hi-hat control with pedal and one more extra tom input. There is 99 pre-set drum kits in this sound module. Styles ranging from jazz, rock, metal, and punk. I think it's the best to set your own and play around with things. Recording is a breeze. Just plug in the left and right quarter inch output and your ready to go. Use the main volume on the set and your recording interface. I think by recording with an electric set, you will get the best possible recording even vs the acoustic set. For live performances, it's ok. It just looks weak on stage.

There is tons of extra features like room ambience, pitch shifter, left and right panning, and volume control. It's has a built in equalizer of all the fine tunes on the volume, lows, mids, and highs. The 170 pre-set songs help when you want to play along with music and learn new beats. This 64-voice module serves up 1,024 of Roland's best drum and percussion sounds and 262 backing instruments. Some of the kickers and snares a really good hard hit tone for all the rock drummers. It's neat that you do the jazz style with some of the snares. It's all based on how hard to hit but it's not needed to hit really hard because doesn't work that way. It's about being a fine tuned machine. You can use the double bass pedal also. Trigger Input Jacks: This set includes 9-11 inputs, hi-Hat control jack output jacks, (L/MONO, R)phones jack (stereo miniature phone type), mix in jack (stereo miniature phone type)MIDI connectors (IN, OUT/THRU). The set runs on 1k Ohms. The dimensions: 10-1/2 x 7-7/8 x 3 in. (266 x 199 x 75 mm). The weight: 1.1 kg / 2 lbs 7 oz (excluding AC Adaptor) The TD-6V also features dual-trigger tom inputs to allow rim shots on toms combined with the capacity for cross-sticking, cymbal catches, etc. This module allows for highly realistic playing. The buttons are bright and big. Menu screen to simple and ready to rock.

I've never tried out another set before I bought this. I just sat down, started to play and fell in love with it. The manual is easy to follow if you use it. I don't really use manuals. I like to figure things out on my own. With this set, you can achieve just about any kind of sound your looking for. It's always best to change and adjust each of the toms, snare, ect. Record with it and play around until you have what works best for you. It took me a year to figure that out and understand the limits of the equipment. $1,500 is a lot of money for a drum set. I think for that price there could have been better effects and more realistic tones and hit pads. $1,000 is what I paid on sale. I wouldn't have paid anymore for this.