Yamaha FGDP-50 Finger Drum Pad

Exceeded my expectations as a playable instrument. Very easy to use straight out of the box. I was particularly impressed with the response of the pads, you can pretty rapidly drum three or four fingers to create flam and rolls on one pad. Has most of the basic features you would expect in such a product.
The build quality isn't great, a bit plasticky, however the pads themselves are very solid. The screen is pretty basic and takes a little navigation but for the money I can't complain.
Internal speaker is not bad for the size and fine for just jamming with your mates, it is louder than I expected and you can adjust the sound with a few pre-sets. However the FGDP-50 really shines when you use headphones or monitors. Jamming along with tunes on headphones is my new favourite pastime.
The samples themselves are very nice. The acoustic and electronic drums sound great to me and there are loads of crazy EDM and percussion samples.
The battery isn't great so expect to have to plug the USB in for most uses.
All in all a great product which I am thoroughly addicted to.

As a guitarist looking to make decent midi beats this ticks all the boxes. Much quicker and easier than clicking a mouse on a screen. Sounds ok through its built in speaker and amazing via headphones or monitor.

No loop function, which is a bit of a miss but it’s not sold has having one - there’s a repeat function that looks promising mind.

Listening to songs through the aux in and tapping out simple beats with headphones on is very very addictive and great fun. The sounds (to me) could easily be used live. Midi out via mini usb is easy enough.

The menus and screen are a bit old school - but it’s all there on board, self contained.

Battery powered, portable and feels solid - just switch it on and start jamming out.

As stated, early days but loads of sounds and options, well thought out and well executed product.

Great price and delivery from Thomann as ever.

This little thing is awesome. Having an entire drum kit playable with fingers, what more can a fidgety manchild want?

No, seriously, this is very easy to play with a decent level of confidence, and I can happily jam with my. Would I use it for live performances, probably not, but live looping could work ok. For studio work, it is ok, although MIDI would have been nice.

My only negative is the standard voice selection and the quality of those. They aren't really that great. Some are good, but that can be a bit lackluster. Considering they make fantastic electronic instruments, I feel they could have spent a bit more thought on which sounds to have and really made them top-notch. Even the good ones lack a little bit of authenticity. This isn't something I expect in 2025.