Founded in June, 2006, XM is a professional electronic drum designer and manufacturer based in Taiwan, Asia. XM does OEM for major drum brands in the world.

XMT 5M Electronic Drum Machine Set Mesh Drumhead MIT

Its products include XM standard electronic drum set, XMR Professional electronic drum set, XM-CUSTOM, XM-WORLD, XMZ, XMT, and XML learning machine. XM products receive patents in several countries, such as US, Germany, Taiwan, and China. XM design team members come from various backgrounds, including electronics, mechanics, music, and ID design. With the collaboration of these talents, XM is able to customize drums sets satisfying different users’ needs. XM products are user friendly, allowing all users to enjoy drum-playing.

XM is one of the few electronic drum makers that provide mesh drumhead. If you already have a set of jazz drums and don’t want to spend a fortune to purchase an entire set of electronic drums, you can simply purchase XM drumheads and accessories and install them on your own drums to enjoy playing electronic drums.

Although I have not played an XM kit, from the looks of the video demo below they look like fun. The best thing I like about them is that they look so much like a real acoustic drum set and sound like them too.

I’ve done a bit of research on these kits and I have found that quite a few people think the modules are quite cheap in quality and don’t offer a wide range of programmed drum sets. The XM website (www.xm-world.com) is also a little difficult to follow and it seems quite hard to work out how to buy one.

Even doing a simple Google search for XM-Drums proves that its tricky to find places you can get your hands on one. The only place that I could find was a few listings on eBay and Drum-tech.

If you know of other places to buy XM-Drums, please leave a comment. Let me know what you think of them too. I’d like to find out.

Cheers

Greg

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