What's The Difference: Roland TD-1K & TD-1KV Electronic Drumkits

Play a rock kit one minute, a jazz kit the next. 15 drums kits await and can be changed at the spin of stick. Each kit uses Roland’s legendary sound quality and expressive tones, so you can really get into them when playing.

Drumming on its own is just drumming. Learning an instrument is also about music. The TD-1 module contains real audio songs to play along to and each song can be played with or without a metronome, to develop your sense of timing. Or if you prefer, just plug your MP3/laptop/audio player into the ‘mix in’ to jam along to your favourite tracks.

Also called a ‘click’, this is a vital tool for all drummers to improve their timing and accuracy.

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The Roland TD-1K and TD-1KV kits are particularly quiet where it counts, thanks to the beaterless kick pedal design that removes the ‘thud, thud, thud’ through the floorboards and the noise-reducing design of the mesh-head PDX-8 snare and the quiet tom/cymbal pads.

If you practice and work hard you’ll improve at an alarming rate, so it’s easy to quickly outgrow a ‘traditional’ beginner kit, meaning you need to spend more money for a new kit. The TD-1K and TD-1KV are designed to grow with you; upgrade the kick pad to use your own acoustic single or double pedal, or upgrade to the KT-10 kick pad for all the feel without the noise.

Thanks to its built-in USB-MIDI connection, any TD-1 kit can connect to a PC or iPad/iPhone (requires an Apple camera connection kit). Connecting the TD-1 allows you to record drums with computer software or connect to Roland’s free V-Drums Friend Jam applications, which offer jam tracks, practice features, and the ability to compete with V-Drums users across the planet.