The kicks are not the strongest, granted, but if you are any type of professional, you can easily overcome that with a little creative EQing...

Granted, most of the basses are quite weak, and most are more suited to Techno/House/Trance music than they are for Hip-Hop, but there are about 5 that are excellent and with the enveloping/volume and layer that this module allows for, You can create strong, great sounding beats.

This module is easy to use, however, one must invest time in learning to use ALL THE FUNCTIONS of this module in order to get the desired results...

for $100, this is a great module and much more useful than any keyboard you can by for $300...

The sounds are limited, and there is little to no natural instruments (IE: pianos, acoustic guitars, ethnic percussion)on the Planet Phat Module. BUT, for my perposes, I use it for the drum kits and for complimentary instruments for my keyboard and computer-based samples.

All in all, if you're lookin to fill up your racks, buy it.... If you're honestly looking for a be-all-end-all sound module, this sure as hell ain't it....

For the price you can get this unit for nowadays, it's not bad at all considering a lot of modules that come out really lack funky drum kits, most have like only 1 really killer one if you're lucky.

Besides the drums on this, I found the lead sounds still usuable but most virtual analogues would blow this away on that. I liked the wormpad patch & some basses were usuable. If you're willing to take time to tweak things, this module is a good buy if you find it for around $100 USD.

This unit be great to sample sounds from & make kits out of with a sampler that had great filters, that then would make this unit PHAT!

It's a shame, if they added a bass boost or made this unit sound as phat as their sampler lines, than this unit would be in just about every persons studio who made hip-hop thanks to the massive amounts of drum kits that comes with it.

The beats mode to me was a waste of time, it would've been great when it was released but nowadays, it's very daggy.

Jam on,

D.

I was expecting these sounds to really kick but they are as weak as pi**. Obviously thats my opinion others may feel different but I strongly advise you listen carefully to this module b4 u part with your cash. Even the ageing Roland Expansion modules (Dance MDC-1 and Drum & Bass) sounds better to me than this thing.

You may be enticed by the beats mode, i must admit it sounds interesting for the first 15 minutes, then as with most auto-acompniment features (which is what it is) it really gets on your t*ts.

I thought OK I need to dig deeper into this module and fully discover its depth but there really is nothing much of interest in there that I dicovered.

Yes you can program in your own bits into the beats mode but is their really any point working thru that when you have any other kind of half decent proper sequencer.

Seriously, I owned this thing for much longer than I should have. Nabbed an Roland MC505 instead, and even though the 505 is still a bit toyish, it sure helped me create a lot of memorable tracks.