Rock Band 2, which has been met with just about every praise imaginable, has gotten a helping hand evolving the music gaming genre by Mad Catz. In an exclusive deal, Mad Catz has released its first product to expand upon the Rock Band peripherals with the Mad Catz Cymbal Pack. The Mad Catz Cymbal Pack can add up to three cymbals to your drumset, and in a small yet huge way, entirely change your drumming experience on Rock Band.

The innovate thing about the Mad Catz Cymbal Pack is that even though it shares the same colors of some of the already existing pad, the cymbals don’t take the place of those pads. When used properly, which I’m sure most people will find themselves doing after a few game sessions, the product actually feels like it is adding two completely separate pads. This is the thing I was worried about the most when I first picked up the product, but I honestly feel like I have six pads to hit every time I play the game instead of just four.

The cymbal pack can add another yellow, blue or even green pad to your library. As it does in-game, the yellow will act as a hi-hit, the blue as a ride, and the green as a crash. The neat thing about this is that it will permanently give you each of these unique sounds, so whenever you do a free-style or practice before a song you will have access to hi-hat, ride, crash, and usually the toms as well. Like the pads, the Mad Catz Cymbal Pack is also velocity sensitive so you can add a bit of creativity to those drum fills.