In reading through the
User's Manual a bit (still looking at this as a possible expansion to my DM10X Mesh) it certainly appears that the Alesis development team has been trying to improve upon aspects of the DM10 and add new features and such.
Adding the ability to load in sound samples from USB is pretty cool, though limited (but not really considering the price of the whole kit). Instead of, say several layers of velocity ranges, each being able to accept x number of sample files, the DM10 MKII can take two samples per voice: A and B, and then the Velo parameter determines which is fired. Still pretty cool.
The manual is really quite short, so I'd recommend owners of the kit to read it over well enough to know everything it has to say. It can only make your experience with the kit stronger - although it (the manual) still seems to leave some level of 'getting used to' from a personal experience with the module/kit itself.
For example, it says that the MIDI Note parameter determines which note is SENT if using MIDI, but it never does mention whether or not the value(s) may be user-set. But it does have a nice little chart of the numbers being sent as well.
It's interesting seeing the changes made to voice setups. I'd love to get my hands on one to check it pout first-hand. Maybe I'll grab one this summer. We'll see.
Is there anyone here that has both DM10 and the MKII Pro? MKII Studio?
As for you who have the MKII Pro who have posted before... how are you getting on now with this thing? Sure looks like a nice kit.