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Blacklung
Published on 07/21/03 at 11:09
251 drum samples of high quality, low 4 (inutilisables. .. or so for the gag!) And an "off" (an empty sample ... yes, it can be handy). The instruments are fully editable (Level, Pitch from -2 to +2 octaves, Decay, Nuance, Pan, Assign Type, frequency response to velocity, etc.).. The setting of shade to choose the location of the strike received (or to the center outward to the snare, for example). The Assign Type to manage the polyphony of a pad (if he cut himself or not, when it is played twice, cut if other sounds, etc.).. Certain sounds (hi-hats, etc..) Completely change the stamp with values of very high pitch. It is possible to reproduce an incredible amount of percussion sounds and create from scratch.
400 factory patterns and 400 users. Enormous. It is impossible to overwrite the factory patterns (very ugly: when the Japanese get the idea to make rock, rap or samba, NOTHING can stop them ... not even the bad taste).
64 factory and 64 drumkits users. 55 sounds per kit (32 are playable from the pads: the others are accessible via MIDI).
Effects: Reverb / Delay + Chorus / Flanger. The parameters are few, but especially the beaches they are too narrow. For example, for the reverb can not set the type (Hall, Room or Plate), duration (from 0 to 31), and the level of low-pass filter (0 to 7 only: the sound of the reverb is very clear and quite cold ... damage). The time is not synchronized to the tempo. I do not like chorus and flanger (anyway I never liked these effects here ...). Anyway: what are the effects of drum! And in any case for the more demanding it is always possible to send the kit components to external effects by separate output (very easy to use: just adjust the pan of the far right-pad the display shows then "INDIV" - and adjust the level of individual output).
The DR is very compact and very solid (nothing more than you can carry around in your backpack without problems).
UTILIZATION
Patience and spirit of synthesis will be necessary to sequence your patterns. Indeed, one can see that and not an instrument at a time: those who are used as interfaces to TR (myself included) should get out paper and pencil to be able to visually represent the sequences! The DR-770 works in "ticks". The black is divided into 96 ticks: the triple is 12 ticks eighth, the sixteenth note 24, the eighth 48 ... there are also the triplet sixteenth note, eighth note and black (respectively 16, 32 and 64 ticks). This mode is a bit abstract at first (my music theory lessons are far), but it turns out ultimately very open and allows the habit to publish precisely these sequences and to engage in the joy of the cons- rhythms (and then anyway, simply adjust the quantization of "sixteenth note" to find the classic steps of TR 16). You can choose the length of the patterns as you see fit: 1 to 80 black ... live rhythms to 3 times (the brave can even indulge in the mysteries of rhythm to 5 times)!
The creation of songs based on your patterns is very simple, just paste them end-to-end. It is also possible to delete or insert parts.
Attention, as in all the drum machines, there is no room for error when you change something, whether an instrument or a sequence, the changes are automatically saved ... there is no undo or "revert to saved" (I say this for those who are familiar with software). Before attempting something radical must make copies! This "direct" approach still has the advantage of simplicity ... and to see the bright side: you will not lose any data in case of power failure!
The pads are velocity sensitive, but the race is very short so it's quite difficult to properly dose the strike force: so do not count on them to have a subtle and full of finesse ... Instead, edit your footage and enter the values manually.
SOUNDS
The sounds are very well selected and sampled. Perhaps too well sampled: the DR is very clean on it (and that's what one would expect from a drum pro!), And these are not the effects that are embedded to change anything. We must all this mess with external effects, distortion, compression and EQ to really be something CHIREDÉ (as the young)! But maybe it's just a matter of taste.
I highly recommend the "swing" at low doses it can meet any pattern (even if you just have to make you feel right without a little swing "sixteenth note 62%" will not make it wrong!).
I also recommend to save your curls in your sampler and then filter them, cut, rearrange the overlay, etc.. And more so you do not have to carry the CD on stage where it is ultimately not very useful (the screen is a bit small and not backlit, and I find it difficult to achieve good patterns in real time), unless you use the pads to MIDI control.
OVERALL OPINION
I paid my own less than 300 euros in a poor suburban consignment shop five months ago and I have been the bargain of the century (next in the same window, there was the SCAM OF THE CENTURY : a Groovebox MC-303 EUR 300 ...)! Its small size, blue-stylee Bontempi and yellow buttons all round had to convince sellers that it was not a serious machine (the fools!). Against it by very hot on the bottom, at the power supply. At first it worried me, but I got used to (and read on U.S. sites it was normal for this model).
The guy (or girl) who had made before me the rai with: it is partly for this kind of surprises I love buy opportunity. on the other hand, make sure that documentation is provided (without it you will not get very far).
I LOVE THIS MACHINE. At home she is always at hand (that is to say, on my couch in front of the TV). The more I use it, the more I discover features, at least I can do without.
In short: "I c'que ch'sais not, I see life in blue ... it serious doctor?" (And hey presto, I finished on a double play on words and twisted a quote wild pub)
400 factory patterns and 400 users. Enormous. It is impossible to overwrite the factory patterns (very ugly: when the Japanese get the idea to make rock, rap or samba, NOTHING can stop them ... not even the bad taste).
64 factory and 64 drumkits users. 55 sounds per kit (32 are playable from the pads: the others are accessible via MIDI).
Effects: Reverb / Delay + Chorus / Flanger. The parameters are few, but especially the beaches they are too narrow. For example, for the reverb can not set the type (Hall, Room or Plate), duration (from 0 to 31), and the level of low-pass filter (0 to 7 only: the sound of the reverb is very clear and quite cold ... damage). The time is not synchronized to the tempo. I do not like chorus and flanger (anyway I never liked these effects here ...). Anyway: what are the effects of drum! And in any case for the more demanding it is always possible to send the kit components to external effects by separate output (very easy to use: just adjust the pan of the far right-pad the display shows then "INDIV" - and adjust the level of individual output).
The DR is very compact and very solid (nothing more than you can carry around in your backpack without problems).
UTILIZATION
Patience and spirit of synthesis will be necessary to sequence your patterns. Indeed, one can see that and not an instrument at a time: those who are used as interfaces to TR (myself included) should get out paper and pencil to be able to visually represent the sequences! The DR-770 works in "ticks". The black is divided into 96 ticks: the triple is 12 ticks eighth, the sixteenth note 24, the eighth 48 ... there are also the triplet sixteenth note, eighth note and black (respectively 16, 32 and 64 ticks). This mode is a bit abstract at first (my music theory lessons are far), but it turns out ultimately very open and allows the habit to publish precisely these sequences and to engage in the joy of the cons- rhythms (and then anyway, simply adjust the quantization of "sixteenth note" to find the classic steps of TR 16). You can choose the length of the patterns as you see fit: 1 to 80 black ... live rhythms to 3 times (the brave can even indulge in the mysteries of rhythm to 5 times)!
The creation of songs based on your patterns is very simple, just paste them end-to-end. It is also possible to delete or insert parts.
Attention, as in all the drum machines, there is no room for error when you change something, whether an instrument or a sequence, the changes are automatically saved ... there is no undo or "revert to saved" (I say this for those who are familiar with software). Before attempting something radical must make copies! This "direct" approach still has the advantage of simplicity ... and to see the bright side: you will not lose any data in case of power failure!
The pads are velocity sensitive, but the race is very short so it's quite difficult to properly dose the strike force: so do not count on them to have a subtle and full of finesse ... Instead, edit your footage and enter the values manually.
SOUNDS
The sounds are very well selected and sampled. Perhaps too well sampled: the DR is very clean on it (and that's what one would expect from a drum pro!), And these are not the effects that are embedded to change anything. We must all this mess with external effects, distortion, compression and EQ to really be something CHIREDÉ (as the young)! But maybe it's just a matter of taste.
I highly recommend the "swing" at low doses it can meet any pattern (even if you just have to make you feel right without a little swing "sixteenth note 62%" will not make it wrong!).
I also recommend to save your curls in your sampler and then filter them, cut, rearrange the overlay, etc.. And more so you do not have to carry the CD on stage where it is ultimately not very useful (the screen is a bit small and not backlit, and I find it difficult to achieve good patterns in real time), unless you use the pads to MIDI control.
OVERALL OPINION
I paid my own less than 300 euros in a poor suburban consignment shop five months ago and I have been the bargain of the century (next in the same window, there was the SCAM OF THE CENTURY : a Groovebox MC-303 EUR 300 ...)! Its small size, blue-stylee Bontempi and yellow buttons all round had to convince sellers that it was not a serious machine (the fools!). Against it by very hot on the bottom, at the power supply. At first it worried me, but I got used to (and read on U.S. sites it was normal for this model).
The guy (or girl) who had made before me the rai with: it is partly for this kind of surprises I love buy opportunity. on the other hand, make sure that documentation is provided (without it you will not get very far).
I LOVE THIS MACHINE. At home she is always at hand (that is to say, on my couch in front of the TV). The more I use it, the more I discover features, at least I can do without.
In short: "I c'que ch'sais not, I see life in blue ... it serious doctor?" (And hey presto, I finished on a double play on words and twisted a quote wild pub)