Strange I saw this before on their site, but it have been removed, maybe they changed after. From what I know from gewa is the 4gb flash contains all their kits ex 20 kits loaded, and the 128gb are sd storage (not playable kits), the flash allow them to avoid loading kit on each kits switch from what they explained.
Well, if what you say is true about the 4gb flash containing all 20 kits, then you are correct that it would be like the Strike. 4000MB (which is 4GB) divide by 20 kits is 200MB per kit. If this is the case DW is dead in the water at the price there are asking. What I don't get is Gewa/DW stated:
"up to 100 layers on a given instrument". I realize that not every instrument is going to be that deep with layers, but if an instrument has 100 layers I don't know how they would fit an entire drum kit in 200MB. Again, I'm assuming spec based on what you have stated.
Also what is the heck with the position sensing? That's is still pattend from Roland as I know, unless they don't released in US until it expired?
To be honest, we don't know if they are releasing in the USA this year. They could be waiting until next year (2019) which I believe is when that Roland patent expires.
Or they could be claiming a different position sensing. I'm guessing this is the case since they are calling it
"HD" position sensing. I saw somewhere that Gewa/DW claims 5 millimeters of sensing. Roland does not have that kind of precision with PS. Maybe that's the loop hole?
BTW I think their triggers and cymbal are re branded DTTI, did not like the surface and bottom construction.
At this point (with the Roland patents going away) everything is going to come down to esthetics. The design doesn't look bad to me. I'm not
"Wowed" by it, but it looks fine.
I'm not overly critical to the way kits look as long as the look good. The Gewa/DW kit (including the Studio 5 model) looks good to me.