The Budget Drum Machine You Need? NEW Donner D1!

Got my hands on the Donner D1 Drum Machine and we'll walk through all the major features for making beats creating songs on the drum machine!

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00:00 Unboxing, Build Quality, and Overview
01:13 Demo Performance
01:49 Basics of Samples, Kits & Beat Making
03:50 Step Sequencing
05:11 Live Recording
05:54 Quantization
06:38 Swing
06:51 Faders
07:20 Mute & Solo
07:45 Rolls & Fills
08:39 Deleting Sounds In Patterns
09:38 Parameters To Edit For Each Sound
13:17 Parameter Lock & Substep
13:54 How To "Copy/Paste"
14:09 Reverb & Delay
15:20 Bus Comp
16:05 Fill Programming
17:20 Beat Slots & Songs Explained
21:00 Global Settings
21:39 Factor Samples & Swapping Samples
22:00 Pad Sensitivity
22:32 Sample Import & Kit Creation Software
23:18 Major Cons of the D1
25:06 Who Is The D1 For?

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[Taetro]

In response to my criticism of the lack of Choke groups, and performance fx - Donner says they’re planning to add these features and other improvements in future firmware updates. I'll update this comment if / when that update drops!

[joeltibbits]

I had a terrible experience with a donner guitar pedal, but this looks pretty well done. I smell an audiopilz bad gear episode coming soon

[comeidlewild]

Straight forward, thorough, informative…Thank U

[WVLFRVN]

Ive been looking forward to seeing what they would do after the b1 and this is a welcome surprise!

[artistjoh]

Any suggestions for budget alternatives that do have the missing features?

[djkanyon]

Already ordered one (to pair with my B-1 of course!) but i dunno why Donner insists on "affordable" tagline. The price of the unit is dangerously close to iconic KO2 and there's no question who will win this battle. In Eastern Europe where i live it goes for 150 (that's what i paid today). Don't get me wrong i love Donner to death and their B-1 is an instant classic (recently bought the second one coz it's a gem), but their pricing strategy is weird. Dudes from Donner if ya reading this i love you guys, your products is special and i hope you will prosper.

[iamboody]

Given the ongoing fiasco of the Donner Medo kickstarter and the inability of Donner support to respond to basic queries after months I'd recommend people are wary about purchasing from Donner.

[charlesdaniels]

First off, I really like the Donner D1. Its fun to play. HOWEVER it frequently crashes doing very mundane basic things. Trying to adjust the decay of your bass drum? It might just crash and leave you having to turn it on and off again. EVEN WORSE the App for it is horrible. It doesn't always register that you've tried to drag and drop a sample in, so sometimes I have to drag the same file half a dozen times before it registers. Even worse the SMP directory just stopped working one day. I could no longer add new Samples to the SMP1-SMP4. After a week it began to let me add new samples, but I could not see existing ones, and so I cannot remove them. Also one of my samples randomly corrupted after working fine for several days. Also you need to learn a very specific, weird way, to hit the drum pads in sequencer mode. In live play the drug pads work great. In sequencer mode, I have to find a jaunty angle to hit each pad at, to get it to register. There is a lot that needs fixing. Which is sad, because this is a fun machine, when it works. It really sucks not to have distortion on anything but the bass drum, that is kind of unforgivable IMHO

[Schemez-vhiphopbeatz]

This along with the b1 could make some interesting acid

[BaddaBigBoom]

OMG this is effin brilliant! Just what I need for my live stuff.
Only problem is that I'm colour blind and at least two of the colours that light up look the same to me.
Damn!! I might just get one anyway, it'd be rude not to.
Thumbs up/subbed.

[BaddaBigBoom]

...and non destructive erasing! This is just MADE for live work, I am a professional didgeridoo player that uses live loop sampling and I'm in the middle of upgrading my setup. If this can synch up to my Boss RC-5 that will be the decider.

[technodrone]

pretty cool for 300 bucks. does it power over usb? audio over usb?

[DetroitMicroSound]

I like where Donner is headed. The TB-303 was a budget machine when it came out. No idea what kind of hardware is inside this, but if it's reasonably powerful, they should be able to give it many more features, yet to come. Potentially making it far more impressive. It's never going to hold a candle to my 1010m BB, but it's price isn't making those kind of promises.

[jazzad]

This unit and the Korg Sample 2 each seem to have features the other one is missing.

[LaurentDiscShowMan]

GENTES CON ALEGRIAS..VERY GOOD...ENTERAROS BIEN DE LAS COSAS QUE OS LAS ESTOY EXPLICANDO..

[Schemez-vhiphopbeatz]

Actually cool as most drum machines only come with one kit like the Roland classics so this thing sounds sick ...dude seid it's sample based so does it actually sample ?

[strayferal]

Hm, wait. So this looks like a ROMpler, which makes it AKAI XR20 on steroids maybe? The pads look so similar too...

[damelos]

I'd say get the EP-133 if you want a "beginner" box. It's not perfect but it has far more functionality and features than this. They cost the same too!