Donner's L1 is a budget analogue synth that builds on the legacy of the SH-101

Chinese manufacturer Donner has been building quite the reputation over the past few years, as it steadily expands its catalogue of accessibly-priced gear with the likes of the 303-inspired Essential B1 bass synth. Donner's latest is another generously priced analogue synth that also takes cues from a vintage Roland instrument while adding some neat additional features including extra oscillator modes and a detachable MIDI keyboard.

[foljs]

Why does he demonstrate it with fart sounds instead of nice leads and basses?

[mb]

One of the most refreshing things I've seen from NAMM. The separatability of the keyboard from the synth and them being able to be used individually is really cool.

[moskva-kassiopeya]

Wow it’s like this comment section filled with bots and negative comments. The synth is able to save presets yet bots claim it can not. The synth itself is great btw, I like the design and it’s sounds great.

[robertsyrett]

But like, what if you made an SH-101 with 2 oscillators?

[Nothingspeshalwaysfresh]

They sent the wrong product specialist.

Ive been waiting for content to see how this sounded since annouced ...was excited. Now? Not so much.

[NullStaticVoid]

Its kind of entertaining to see Donner try to out Behringer B-Brand with even cheaper, shittier gear. At least this has real keys

[BadTrip]

I don't wanna sound rude but honest. In my opinion all Donner's synths sounds plastic and digital like old vst synth because new ones sounds less digital than Donner's synths. It will be no surprise for me if there inside is Raspberry Pi running some free vst synth 😅

[uncccut]

Just seems pointless. Has all the bad limitations of old gear (no presets, only 1 osc etc) but with modern ugliness (ugly pads, touch sliders) and it doesn’t even look like an SH-101. If you want to do some nostalgic shit with limitations, at least make it as good looking as the old synth it imitates. Behringer wins here big time.

[Tripwelleverday]

I can’t believe it had no modulation controls on the sequencer it’s such a let down

[Paulruk]

This sounds like me the day after a curry and I’m polyphonic and wireless.

[bhaveshmistry]

Interesting product. Demonstrators look very passionate. Like the way he gave demo. ❤

[johngorgis]

hopefully it sounds better than the behringer sh01

[OrganicGreens]

Put a nob and slider for everything except what you play most often the pitch and mod... "wheel". I hate touch strips

[oracle-]

I like nothing about his demo! But I think me doing a better job is stupid🤕💉💉

[tamascsanaki]

Sounds like a 8 USD toy keyboard. I do not need it.

[zeitgeist]

I wonder if Benn is going to post a video dissing Donner for this obvious rip-off of the SH-101? Probably not.