Can I use it as a standalone instrument?

Yes. The 12 pads play on their own with 1,277 built-in voices, so you can use it as a hand-percussion surface without any other gear.

Can I build a small drum kit with it?

Yes. Connect kick and hi-hat pedals, sold separately, and the pads become the rest of a compact kit.

Can I load my own samples?

Yes. WAV and AIFF files import over USB and play from 64MB of battery-backed flash ROM.

Does it work with a computer?

Yes. It connects over USB and ships with Cubase AI for recording and composing.

How does it compare with a full electronic drum kit?

It is more compact and better for hand percussion and sampling, but it lacks a full kit's pad layout and needs pedals to cover kick and hi-hat.

What effects does it have?

Onboard effects include delay, flanger, phaser and pitch shifter, applied to the pads' voices.

Where is the Yamaha DTX-MULTI 12 Digital Percussion Pad cheapest?

At Timpano-percussion, for $494.00, 25% under what the other stores charge, as of our latest check.

What do buyers say about the Yamaha DTX-MULTI 12 Digital Percussion Pad?

Rated 4.8 out of 5 from 13 ratings.

Where can I buy the Yamaha DTX-MULTI 12 Digital Percussion Pad?

16 stores we checked sell it, including Guitar Center, Musician's Friend, Walmart, Timpano-percussion, Amazon.

Yamaha DTX-MULTI 12 Digital Percussion Pad

Best price now

$494.00at Timpano-percussionChecked 16 min ago

25% under what the other stores charge

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What reviewers say

4.8 / 513 ratings

Owners treat the DTX-MULTI 12 as a versatile, gig-ready pad with a strong sound library and solid pad feel. The main frustrations are the learning curve for its menus and the extra cost of pedals to complete a kit.

What people mention

Sound libraryPraisedOwners like the breadth of percussion, drum and synth voices and find most usable without editing.
Pad feelPraisedPlayers report the stepped pads respond well to hands and sticks.
Ease of useCriticisedThe menu system and deep editing are described as slow to learn.
PortabilityPraisedIts compact size makes it easy to add to a kit or carry to a gig.
Sample memoryMixedImporting your own sounds works, but the flash memory fills quickly.

About the Yamaha DTX-MULTI 12 Digital Percussion Pad

The Yamaha DTX-MULTI 12 is a digital percussion pad with 12 stepped pads in a compact body. It can be played with sticks, hands or fingers. It can be used alongside acoustic drums and percussion, connected to a computer for music production, or combined with kick and hi-hat pedals (sold separately) as a compact drum set.

It has 1,277 voices. These include sounds from MOTIF-series synthesizers, new percussion sounds made with Yamaha's sampling techniques, DJ sounds, and voices from percussion, chromatic percussion, folk and acoustic drum instruments. You can import your own WAV and AIFF files over USB and use them as voices. The unit works as a sample playback device with 64MB of battery-backed Flash ROM.

Effects include delay, flanger, phaser and pitch shifter. Reverb and chorus can be applied to whole kits, and a Variation effect can shape individual voices with compression and EQ. A five-band master EQ is also included. Up to four voices can be assigned to each pad. Stack mode triggers them all at once, Alternate mode plays them in turn, and the four samples can also be triggered by strike velocity.

Color

Multicolor

Pads

12 stepped pads

Voices

1,277

Sample memory

64MB battery-backed Flash ROM

Patterns

128 MIDI patterns, including 3 demo patterns

Pad assignment

Up to 4 voices per pad