There are better choices for drummers and mixers. Don't get involved in one of these unless you live in an apartment or condo where you have to play silently. They are cool, but get boring real fast compared to real drums. Just use a SPD pad setup instead for electronics. Roland pads are impressive, pintech are just okay but rock roland big time for the price. I remixed a bunch of songs with the TD-8 and then sold it...
Comments About the Sounds:
roland td-8 has decent sounds---high quality but volume control for each sound is not intuitive.