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Setup for your Alesis Strike MultiPad
Lemon pads cover snare, toms, kick, cymbals, ride, and hi-hat on the Alesis Strike MultiPad, with the limitations noted below.
- Snare 2-zone
- Toms 2-zone
- Kick 1-zone
- Crash 2-zone
- Ride 2-zone
- Hi-hat Continuous
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- Brand
- Alesis
- Model
- Strike MultiPad
- Also known as
- Strike MultiPad, Strike Multipad, Strike Multi Pad, Alesis Strike Multipad, StrikeMultiPad
Setup details by role
Snare pad 2-zone 1× TRS → Trigger In 2/3 or 4/5 set to Head+Rim — head + rim
The Strike Multipad is a sample multipad, not a kit module. Its onboard pads play assigned samples, and the rear panel adds a small TRIGGER IN row silkscreened 1, 2/3, 4/5 and HH. Alesis: "Trigger In 1 is a single-zone connection and Trigger Ins 2/3 and 4/5 are dual-zone connections" (User Guide p.5) — so 2/3 and 4/5 are the only two dual-zone jacks. A Lemon snare uses one of them with its Type set to Head+Rim, so a single TRS cable carries both zones — head and rim trigger independently and play whatever samples you assign to that trigger input.
Tom pad 2-zone 1× TRS → Trigger In 2/3 or 4/5 set to Head+Rim — head + rim
Each 2-zone tom needs one of the two dual-zone jacks (Trigger In 2/3 or 4/5) set to Type = Head+Rim, carrying head + rim over a single TRS cable. There are only two dual-zone jacks total, shared across all your 2-zone pads. To add more single-zone pads, a dual-zone jack can instead be set to 2 Trigger and split with a TRS-to-dual-TS splitter, but each leg is single-zone (head only).
Kick pad Works 1× TS → Trigger In 1 (single-zone), or a 2 Trigger split leg
Single-zone kick trigger. Trigger In 1 is the dedicated single-zone jack — Alesis: "Trigger In 1 is a single-zone connection" (User Guide p.5) — and suits a kick directly on a mono TS cable. Alternatively, set a dual-zone jack (2/3 or 4/5) to Type = 2 Trigger and use a TRS-to-dual-TS splitter so the kick shares that jack with another single-zone pad.
2-zone crash 2-zone 1× TRS → Trigger In 2/3 or 4/5 set to Head+Rim — bow + edge
Dual-zone crash triggering: with a dual-zone jack (Trigger In 2/3 or 4/5) set to Type = Head+Rim, bow (head) and edge (rim) read independently over one TRS cable. Each 2-zone cymbal occupies one of the two dual-zone jacks, so they're shared with any 2-zone snare/tom/ride you connect.
3-zone ride 2-zone 1× TRS: Ride 1 (bow/edge) → Trigger In 2/3 or 4/5 set to Head+Rim
Plug the Lemon ride's Ride 1 cable into a dual-zone trigger jack for bow + edge — no cymbal modification. The Strike Multipad's dual-zone jacks are 2-zone (Head+Rim), so the ride drives two of its three zones here.
Hi-hat Continuous 1× TRS pad → Trigger In 2/3 or 4/5 (Head+Rim) + 1× TRS (controller) → the HH jack in the TRIGGER IN row (Type = Variable)
Continuous hi-hat control. The hi-hat pad connects to a dual-zone jack (Trigger In 2/3 or 4/5) set to Head+Rim for bow + edge, and the Lemon hi-hat controller connects to the HH jack — silkscreened HH in the TRIGGER IN row, and the one Alesis calls the HH Pedal (User Guide p.5). Use a TRS cable: the Technical Specifications list it as a "1/4" TRS HH pedal input" (p.30). In the Pedals menu, set the HH Type to Variable so it "will send a variable range of velocity values" for smooth open-to-closed response; a Switch option exists for fixed open/closed.
