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NAMM 2008 saw in a flurry of electronic drum releases including new Roland V-Drums, Yamaha DTXtreme III and Alesis DM5 and USB pro kits. Add these to the recently unveiled Roland HD-1 Lite and it's safe to say there's an e-drum kit to suit everyone, regardless of budget.

To that list, please welcome Swedish outfit 2box and its hard-to-miss orange and black DrumIT Five electronic kit.

The DrumIT set stands on a lightweight rack with pads ranging from 8" to 14". Like the V-drums range, all the pads feature both head and rim sensors. A bell, ride and edge cymbal are also included, each with three playing zones and a rubber coating to reduce acoustic noise.

Here's what the brain has to offer...

• 10 dual-function trigger inputs
• low latency trigger interface
• 6 mono line out + stereo headphone out
• stereo audio in
• 128 user editable kits
• USB interface + PC / Mac virtual kit manager
• proprietary lossless compression format
• 24bit sound playback

The DrumIT Five is scheduled to ship in spring 2008 and although no price has been set, 2box assure us it will cost somewhere below €2,000 for the full kit. The distributor in UK will be Hand In Hand.