Alesis Samplepad Pro

Very solid and stable. Can be even played on your laps. It responds very quickly. Can be played using sticks, or hands which actually suits me. Being able to assign two samples per pad with cool velocity settings makes it play 16 different samples and achieve a great dynamics. All that fits in a a laptop case.

The major drawback for me is, that two top pads are not that sensitive and fail to sound properly from time to time. Maybe it's because of a different shape.

You get all this swiftness for a price: the firmware is very primitive to keep it fast. Longer samples can take ages for loading and accidental switch during the performance can be fatal. Factory presets load however fast and sound pretty decent.

In conclusion, I bought it and instantly started to use a lot. Mostly for ethnic instruments samples, or combination of those with drumset sounds. Max SD card capacity 64GB is really fine. There is an important information on what bitrate and even file naming does matter. Lucky, there is a lightweight app that checks files and converts them if needed.