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Drum Machine from Zoom

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Published on 10/31/08 at 16:00
Like I said, this thing is fun to toy around with on the train or bus or whatever you ride to school / Work. Its nice to just mess around with. It Has NO midi out, so thats pretty weak. Line in is nice if you and some friends wanna rap, or let him bust it out on guitar. Midi In, 2 outputs, 2 types of effects, Comp. EQ. and Reverb types. You can make quite a few. Its nice to be able to assign all the pads to what you want, including panning and pitch. I think this was geared towards rock musicians, and the Speaker Boxx to hip hop. Not for trance. No orchestra kits, either. One would have been nice. Battery Powered.

Price paid

13,900 YEN

UTILIZATION

Nuts easy to use. Crazy simple. I havent even touched the manual (Wouldnt help, I wouldnt understand 30% of it, bought in japan) So Simple, havent used it with midi yet so dont know how easy that is. One other thing, almost everything is BACKWARDS. Volume turns backwards, well it seems it does, just awckward placement I guess. Naming is weird, alphabet goes from bottom to top instead of top down.

Well, ive dropped it a few times, I got mad and chucked it onto my bed, bounced and hit my wall, it works fine. Connectors seem a little flimsty though. The Volume knob is easily taken off... Kinda weird.

SOUNDS

This is a Extreme begginers drum machine, to say the most. I bought this thinking I would have something with better drum sounds than a yamaha psr 1000, because those are not so great. Totally wrong. This is a fun unit to toy around with. Sound is...not this units specialty. The Bass sounds are pretty week. Not much variety. The Square and Sine have pretty much NO USE for what this unit is capable of. Only good bass sounds I thought were the Acoustic, Dark, Finger, Synth 1 and Lo Sine. Lo sine is to weak on the lowest octave though. Good that you can change through 3 octaves. The effects are probably the best part of this. Pretty customizeable, good for what it is I thought.

OVERALL OPINION

Fun and loving but pretty useless. But it for fun, I recomend dont buy it at all :P not worth the 150

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Quantity ( 1-, 2006)