5 Awesome Portable Electronic Tabletop Drum Kits All Under $400!
Tabletop or multi-pad type drum kits are very convenient and fun. Drums are usually very large and difficult to move. All of the drum sets in this list can fit in a single bag and are perfect for home practice if you do not have a lot of space, or for portable gigging. I have personally tested every drum kit on this list, and can vouch for all of them. Here is my list from most expensive to least.
1. Avatar PD705 (stand and pedal bundle) $369
The Avatar PD705 is my personal go-to portable e-kit. This is the most professional piece of gear on this list. This bundle comes with the offical stand and bass drum pedal. You can buy an additional pedal for another $40. It is very worth having. This drum kit comes with great sounds out of the box, but you can also load your own samples, create loops, trigger loops and samples. It also features 4 additoinal trigger inputs for connecting additional drums. The pedal feels good and the percussion pad is completely customizable. It is fully MIDI capable as well.
2. Yamaha DD75 $299.99
The Yamaha DD75 is also a very professional piece of gear. These drums sound great and have built in speakers that sound really great. The sounds are stock Yamaha sounds which are high quality. The build quality is excellent. You can upgrade the pedals to real Yamaha electronic bass drum pads and hi hat pedals. Allowing you to use a real bass drum pedal. The pedals it comes with do not feel great, but they get the job done. You can create custom kits, but you cannot load samples. MIDI I/O.
3. Pyle PTED06 $211.99
The PTED06 is a very decent multi-pad drum kit. The sounds are good and the speakers are loud. I played a rooftop party gig with mine a couple years ago and it worked well. You can make your own custom pedals using RockBand pedals or by creating any basic switch mechanism. The ones the come with it are okay, but not great. They tend to double trigger a bit easily and it's pretty hard to play anything complicated with them. you can create your own custom kits and it has USB MIDI. You cannot load samples.
4. Lekato CPD1000 $186.99
The big advantage of the CPD1000 is it has a real mesh snare drum attached to it. It has a very solid construction and is more like a mini actual electronic drum set than any of the others on the list. However, like above the pedals are pretty bad. In fact this one has some of the worst pedals on the list. That being said, the kit will allow you to plug in a real bass drum trigger if you have one. The sounds are decent, customizable and has full MIDI features. This one is a bit more complicated to setup though than the others since it has a separate drum module and cable snake. Setup and teardown time is much longer than the others on this list.
5. Konix Tabletop Drum Set $149.99
The Konix Tabletop drum is the cheapest on this list, but honestly it is one of my favorites because of the insane amount of features it has in such an inexpensive package. It is 100% wireless and rechargeable, has Bluetooth midi and audio, built-in speakers that are insanely loud and very decent sounds. Build quality is definitely cheaper than the rest and it is a bit of a toy, but it is a really COOL TOY! On top of that, even though it uses the little micro pedals like the ones above. The ones that come with the Konix are not that bad at all. I found them to be much more playable than all of the others on this list with the exception of the Avatar.
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