BUT, I still LIKE this pos
I've loaded up drum kits from Roland, Korg, Simmons, Korg, Casio, and it all sounds great. Doing complex sequencing of lofi Casio drum samples is really fun, the sounds are better than they should be.
Everything sounds great on this
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The pads are also, a bit weird. On finger drumming, they work. But if you are inputting a sequence on those same pads, suddenly they aren't as responsive and you need to hit the pads at weird angles, and each pad wants to be hit at a different spot or angle
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And you don't have individual outs, so you can't really isolate each time sound to process it externally either
AND the instrument is buggy, I've had the unit crash because I adjusted decay on the bass drum, crash because I stopped playing a sequence, etc
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Well there is a dedicated Bass Drum button, Snare Drum, Tom, etc
AND you only have access to certain effects for certain drums - only the bass drum button has access to Distortion, for example.
So crafting and perfecting each Drum sound is extremely limited
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But when I used up 2% of that storage, I discovered the app just couldn't handle the numbers of samples I added. For a week I could not add new or delete old samples. Eventually it let me add new samples, bit not delete old ones
And the way you add samples?
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The Donner D1 promotes itself as an essential drum machine which is great fir beginners and pros alike
It allows you to load in samples, and the app automatically converts files into a valid format
The unit boasts 4 gigs of storage, which should be ample...
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Today in the Techno Dungeon, allow me to explain my love/hate relationship with a drum machine I could not possibly recommend
The Donner D1
A fun, but disappointing grey box with a color coded lightshow
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