Roland VAD706 Electronic Drum Kit Demo Featuring TD-50X Sound Module

The Roland VAD706 (V-Drums Acoustic Design) hybrid drum set blends the look and response of a traditional acoustic kit with the pioneering electronics of the modern V-Drums lineup. Real wood shells with lacquered maple finish plies and Roland’s legendary multi-ply mesh heads supply a quiet and custom response at every turn. From the crack of a cranked snare to the wooly give of a classic kick drum, the VAD706 lets you feel, sense, and approach the drums in a whole new light. Across the kit, Roland’s slim, rubberized, multi-zone V-Cymbals serve up the expression you need to craft compelling musical ideas for styles ranging from jazz to metal. The VAD706 comes outfitted with Roland’s trailblazing TD-50X module and a full-size digital snare, a ride, and hi-hat pads.

0:00 - Intro
1:10 - What Comes with the Roland VAD706?
3:22 - Improved Sensors
6:02 - Hardware Overview
6:42 - Acoustic #1 - Sound Sample
7:05 - Pure Wood - Sound Sample
7:29 - Big & Fat - Sound Sample
7:56 - Funk Tight - Sound Sample
9:09 - Jazz Fusion - Sound Sample
9:49 - Air from Asia - Sound Sample
10:23 - Compress - Sound Sample
10:59 - 70s Muffled - Sound Sample
11:30 - Orchestra - Sound Sample
12:06 - EDM DrumStep - Sound Sample
13:12 - The Ambience Control, Tuning, & Dampening
20:16 - TD-50X Module I/O
22:39 - Outro

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[sweetwater]

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[soculese]

Nick could sell sand to a beach. Anytime I watch a demo that Nick does I instantly want the product. Genuinely informative guy.

[jeffsimerson]

Nick always make me want to buy what ever he is pushing on us!! Love this guy!!

[ProcashFloyd]

Watching your Demos makes me wanna buy a drum kit and I'm a guitar player.

[IsaiahStewartJazz]

Nick is the coolest. Electric drums are great for slow and moderate fills but machine gun big time on the toms when you start really shredding anything really fast

[friedpicklezzz]

I wish Roland solved the toms rapid fire effect. Sounds aren’t blending which makes it sound fake.

[ianmclean]

It’s just unbelievable they don’t give you a hi hat stand for $8000! $8000!! Come on.

[MrTripletts]

Roland? Comon!! Listen to that floor tom...your soooo close. If i bought these they would solve the machine gun problem the following week!!! Ill wait patiently

[joemac]

Hi Nick u r the Man! I have the PDA Pads with the TD-50 module just waiting on the the X upgrade release. TD User since the 90's here....

[DanFrancisBand]

I love Sweetwater. I will be a customer for life. I love my sales engineer. I love Nick as a drummer and a presenter. I love Roland too and will continue to buy their products. It just disappoints me that after all these decades, they have not yet cracked the code of how to make electronic drums not sound artificial and “machine gunny.” Triggered samples on a mesh, rubber, or a regular mylar head kit through a program like Superior Drummer sound 100 times better than this for a fraction of the cost.

[michaelkonopka]

I want to buy every kit that Nick demo's !!!

[DisjointedConversations]

Another great drum video from Nick and Sweetwater.

[murraywebster]

Now this is real ear-opener for limitless

[Artikulo]

Wow! Awesome Drums! Awesome Drummer!🤘🥁🤘

[thethomaspatersonexperienc]

I swear Nick is the most loveable man on youtube

[MikeVincentVO]

Love the homage to Steve Gadd and the “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” groove when you demo the 70’s kit. Not a bad sounding electronic kit - but the floor tom still sounds too “unrealistic” to me.

[leeDs]

dammit! came here to hear the drums and now i wanna play all of my Spock's Beard CDs

[robertlucas]

Great playing and demo Nick.
But $8000 for a drum kit with machine gunning sounds, no body, no sustain, just very sterile I can’t justify spending for this kit. The sounds have no body, it ain’t “THICK!” I attempted to adjust the sounds and you can’t make them sound natural with full sustain and decay but I can make the Pearl Mimic Pro have that dry short attack like a Roland. 🤷‍♂️
The triggers are 20+ years old on toms and cymbals, people can make them at home because the piezo pickup has been around since the 1800’s so they should not cost this much.
$2500 for module is reasonable but the sounds are still decades behind Pearl Mimic Pro and drum VST software.
If someone gave it to me, I would midi out to the Pearl Mimic Pro or a VST for better sounds but seriously this is over priced. I’ve talked to many drummers who say they are done with Roland because they charge to much.

[Bufinstuff]

Thanks for showing us that Steve Gadd lick (50 Ways To Leave Your Lover). lolz

[nentihaiudittu]

It is laughable how bad these sounds are, machine gun triggering in this day and age is just ridiculous at this price point. But these kits themselves are awesome to play, i would consider buying them, and use it with Toontrack software. Also, i love each video with Nick, he is such a cool and knowledgeable guy.