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Boss DR-5 - Sell Your DIGITAKT
Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most-hated audio tools. After redirecting the money for a nice 2018 weekend trip, spending a couple of years in my own private Elektron bootcamp and embracing the “limitations breed creativity” Zen I have become quite an avid Digitakt user.
However, today we are going to talk about the Boss DR-5. This 1994 drum machine looks suspiciously similar to the Swedish mono samplers so after rumors of Digitakts discontinuation started swirling a while back I might as well take a look at this cheapskate alternative.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
00:53 Overview Boss DR5
01:17 Technology and Sounds
02:07 Sound Editing
02:16 Remarkable Features, Kits
03:00 Real Time Recording
03:12 User Interface for Guitar Players
03:34 Guitar Input , Amp Simulator , Pitch Tracking
03:52 Chord Mode
04:03 Limitations, Polyphony
04:22 What Else??? (Build Quality, Connectivity, Pricing,...)
04:46 Hate
05:01 Jam 1 ( Acid ChillWave )
05:55 Jam 2 ( 148 bpm is the new 128 bpm )
06:52 Finale ( Electric Boogie Body Music )
07:23 Verdict - Hudba
"Both are perfectly capable of collecting dust"
So true it stings...but then provides laugher.
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Deck saver for your deck saver 😅 too good 👏
that was uncalled for. 😤😤
@@TheStreamingShed Hey you don't have to spend time cleaning the "deck saver." 😄
Bad Gear is a masterpiece. The only hardware channel worth the watch
Thank you so much!!!
Florian is a gift from heaven
i wonder how the fuck he delivers these videos at this high quality
What about Alex ball
I think he has daft punk doing the ghost producing for these vids 😂
At the first tick, the DR5 is boxing all the glances
😂😂😂
My name is Frank. Pun is her. I forgot what I wanted to say. Pretty sure it was profound though. Oh well. Maybe I'll reply when I remember.
Sounds like a random lfo on words pool to me
@@CiabaMusic Maybe you mistyped UFO?
If I turn tower speakers sideways and place them underwater, will it be enough sub-bass?
epic comment!!! 😂😂😂
That final jam felt like Front 242 scoring an educational VHS from the early 90s
LOL, agreed! Interestingly, aside from the two big synths (Wavestate and the Oberheim, I think) the early 242 albums are heavily DX7 and a pile of various samplers. Now I need an album of 242 doing BOC covers just to make the "educational videos" experience complete. 🤣
lol, nice one!
lol. This comment has me in my feels.
I got heavy Delerium vibes from it
@@michaelcovel1720 Great idea. Why not get going yourself. It’ll probably provide ecstatically bleak depression episodes while listening.
6 years ago I wrote an article with the headline "The Boss DR-5, a Digitakt-killer?" :-) , still think it's a forgotten jewel
Oh, that was you!!! Nice read!!!
The first thing i have remembered when i saw the title, was your article ;^)
You are a legend: I read your article when buying a Dr5, and then sent it to the person I sold it to on Reverb.
Did u get a shout out in the video?
@@bull_goose_loonybet you’re regretting it now 😂
The built in Cuckoo mirror during Jam 1 should be the main reason to sell your Digitakt for this beauty.
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Crying..😂
This first-rate episode reminds me that there is now a whole new audience of young adults born in this century who have had very little exposure to the electronic/synth/dance/trance/etc music from the eighties and nineties, and who do not care one little bit about how any of it got made. Creating fun music for them now on inexpensive Bad Gear like this makes perfect sense to me! 😎
Thank you!!! True that!!!
You have acquired the Boss DR-5. You are now ready to create the Sonic CD soundtrack.
Born ready;)
Hells no! Why Sonic CD when you have the warm hug of sound that is Ecco the Dolphin CD?!?!
Ahh the wonderful DR-5. This was used heavily in the memphis rap scene as well as the main workhorse for Lil grimm (children of the corn, graveyard productions) and on a few tommy wright iii mixtapes.
Very usuable for that early Horrorcore stuff. By putting multiple cowbells or claves across the drum kit, pitching them around, you can make those classic 90s cowbell melodies and make hardware phonk
Absolutely! Memphis and Houston too! Glad you mentioned it.
Dr660 is a notch better for that tho imo
More of a 660 thing I think.
I would say Sensational used it on Corner The Market, lovely album! Great piece of gear, super fast to program and lovely gritty sounds. The only problem is the limited memory.
Thank you for the heads up!!!
The more I hear "bad" gear from this era, and see the complaints about something "sounds like general MIDI", the more I'm coming to realize that I just REALLY like general MIDI 😆
GM 4 life!!!
General MIDI is like a musical liminal space.
GM is like that friend you don't like hanging around with, but you'll stand up to anyone else bullying them. Nobody treats him like that except me!
At 6:13 what instrument is making that Detroit "(early nineties Rob Hood) sound? Don't tell me it's the DR5?
General MIDI was always too military for me (a true pacifist in the midst of a well armed country). The MT-32 provided civilian MIDI with similar mappings. I think I even had a sysex file that would make it be more military!
the DR5 internal sounds are today sought out by a few enhusiasts of the 90s memphis underground rap scene and its "cloud rap" children. on the other hand, when it was newer i met multiple people using it as their main sequencer for electro-industrial and aggrotech, and some genuinely cheesy local goth rock made with basically only it + guitar + voice. i wish i still had any/all of those tapes, and i wish i hadm't been so quietly snobby toward the DR5 itself---i don't do guitar but much later on i learned that a fretboard-ish layout can be very handy for getting out of linear horizontal keyboard brain when i've been writng/arranging for more than a short time.
PS: fabulous demos as always. your lack of fear in using huge boss/alesis/etc ROM drums has always been like finding out about a previously unknown close family member living on the other side of the world
Thank you!!! Thanks for the heads up!!!
So, I discovered Memphis rap around 2011 or 2012 because I was looking into examples of people using the dr5 for music that doesn't suck and he shared a link to his music on some dr5 thread on a forum!
If I ever get arrested by the FBI for pirating The Elder Scrolls Oblivion back in the 2000s, this is the machine I'd want in prison so I can make electro black metal from behind bars.
That guitar patch in the beginning sold me, along with those meaty drums. It's like this machine was made just for me.
I thought the exact same way...
Forwarded this confession and special request to the FBI for you 😂
@@MPCmanNL dammit, I blame Florian, he gets me to open up with his disarming German-ness and rapidfire memery.
Can we also be arrested for uh… “finding” modified versions of Daggerfall?
@@Screenshot1015 actually, daggerfall is free to play now courtesy of Bethesda, and I'd highly highly highly recommend Daggerfall Unity. Absolutely wonderful open source port. So probably not.
Unless you pirated it back in 96', in which case... Props cause that sounds like a nightmare, with dialup and viruses and primitive 90s Internet. Hell, getting a legit game to run back then was an ordeal.
After the DR660 popped my sweet 16-bit cherry, the DR5 was a no-brainer for an aspiring jazz guitarist and basement hiphop producer (rappers LOVED the gunshot sample.) I too managed to record my own demo/EP with this, Pocket Sync, a Yamaha MTR, SM58, dbx compressor, ZOOM 9000S, my Mom's upright piano and the DR660. Still, the other kids in my music theory class realized immediately that the best use for this label maker was remixing the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers theme tune.
Wow, classic 90s setup!!! Nice!!!
Dude...your movie and synth nerdery just makes me smile every time. The opening clip being from Space Truckers made me chuckle. Not many folks have seen that film, for their own health. I love the early Boss drum machines really. The DR-5 and DR-660 were major sellers for me when I worked at a music shop at the time. Good review man. Thanks! These still sound good today imo, but then again, I produce vintage sounding industrial lol.
The theme song alone
Industrial (electro-industrial and similar/ adjacent) is what got me into synths and electronic music 👍
Thank you so much!!!
The dust comment hit closer to home than what id like to admit.
I feel you❤️❤️❤️
So crazy... I started home recording in 1992 and eventually bought the DR-5 when it came out a couple of years later. I recently purchased another one a few weeks ago to relive my earlier years of recording and here you are with this video... Crazy! 😂❤😂
Great minds....;)
Me too, but this video made me save that $30 to buy a Digitkat instead.
Yamaha qy70, which I would unironically buy, has entered the chat 😁
;)
showing the meme of a Monalisa as emergent drawing from mono tracks while saying mono-samples is the absolute most astute meme in history, on so many levels. Bravo 🥇
Thank you!!!
This was my first ever bit of kit. The end of the 90s at art school and I bought it off a guy there. Still have it. Used to run that a MU15 and Zoom Sampletrak ST224 with it.
Classic 90s setup!!!
Cowboy Space Bebop Truckers in the opening, pure comedy genius!
Underrated B-movie gem!!!
I just bought Cowboy Bebop soundtrack on vinyl yesterday.
Wait, was Space Truckers based on Cowboy Bebop? That kinda would make sense, actually
@@ahandsomefridge Space Truckers came first, by way of inspiration.
@@djgreenhornet2892 I bet that sounds great.
that finale jam sounds like something out of the video game Rez, it's so good
Thank you!!!
the Dr-5 was the first drum machine I ever owned... And the only drum machine I currently own.
Still gets the job done...
Me toooooooooooo!
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Hey now, some of us make a good living harvesting vintage analogue dust, and selling it to Behringer owners.
;)
Behringer owner here wondering if you're the one who sold me my DR5 😂
A Xenoblade Chronicles reference in a Bad Gear episode. This truly is one of the youtube channels of all time.
Thank you so much!!!
The DR-5 was my first sequencer and I got a ton of use from it. The fretboard style interface was perfect for me. 8 bar patterns can be done by slowing to half tempo. My only gripe was that it didn't have a whole lot of storage space. It didn't pair with with my WinME computer but worked perfectly with the original Macintosh running Mark of the Unicorn's Performer software. bought another one several years because nostalgia.
Ah, classic setup!
i have had one since the late 90s
as primarily a guitarist,
this was my intro to both drum machine programming and "midi" instruments
it was also one of the most unique practice tools i have ever used because i could program in the entire rhythm section to use as backing tracks for my instruction books chord progressions in the Pre-Internet days
with the headphones and amp sim,
i never disturbed anyone
it never got tired, bored, or too drunk to play, lol
a boss ds1 into the input is glorious (watch the level)
and it also works well w my old casio mt68 output
using the "song mode',
i played a gig once using only this and a digitech vocalist just to see if it would work at a coffee shop
it was simplistic and minimal but that was part of the "charm" imo
it was a "music technology" themed gig in early 00s...
neat experience
thanks for bringing back these memories
this channel is great imo
the humor really disguises how much info is packed into each episode
good work \m/\m/
Thank you so much!!!
This review is a grand slam and right up my alley! Back in the 90s, I started one of the largest Boss DR-5 mailing lists and acquired its nearest competitor when the list manager got tired of it!
It remains the one piece of gear that I will never sell under any circumstances! Even though I bought a Roland Fantom 07 about 6 months ago, I still find myself relying on the vocabulary and terms learned with the DR-5 as it applies to everything Roland.
My first demo album heavily relied on it and with gear like the Roland SP-404 MKII, the small sizes of such gear plus battery operations makes our creativity limitless. The DR-5 needed the Yamaha MDF3 to store backups and songs onto the 3.5" floppy disks. I have one and even this MDF3 should be added to anyone's arsenal if one can be found.
Thanks again 🏆🏆🏆🏆for sharing this video!
What a superb piece of niche drum machine history. Thanks! Have you caught up with the latest firmware update of your SP-404 Mk 2 yet? It's pretty huge!
@@notmyrealname9059 Yes, I updated my MK2 yesterday! Have a great day!
Thank you so much!!!
That Electric Boogie Body Music beat actually sounds surprisingly well done! Consider making a full track out of it.
Thank you!!! Shameless plug: full track is available on Patreon;)
Your reviews are top, the memes are like a multileia of crazy humour, but I always enjoy your new videos for your music demos. The Electric Boogie Body Music was awesome!! Thanks
Thank you so much!!!
The absurd amount of editing, creation and creativity that goes into these videos is mindblowing... Thank you!
Thank you so much!!!
Boss DR-5 is my first musical instrument. It has a very special place in my heart. Cool jams as always! 😎
❤️❤️❤️ Thanks!!!
This was my first piece of gear, back in 2002. I didn't like it much because of the sounds and upgraded to other drum machines. A few years ago I dug out the Boss Dr-5 and discovered how amazing it really is and how some pedals can really spice up the sounds. I love it so much that I have two now.
Nice!!!
Awesome video on the DR-5! And.. I can’t wait for when you tackle a video the 4.04 update on the SP404Mk2 as well!
Thank you so much!!!
That last jam took me on a nostalgic journey to the age of classic racing games. Thanks for reminding me of how much I love these old school sounds.
Simpler times❤️❤️❤️
my first drum machine!! used to connect the guitar and rock with this thing!!
Nice!!!
Hundreds of memphis rap tapes produced on single dr-5's in the 90s, still a sought after piece of gear amongst the modern day imitators of this sound.
Totally missed that part of the story, thanks for the insight!!!
This was my first piece of gear ever, I used it everyday when I was 19 to write my first songs and just recently discovered it's still working 20 years later with no issues. The chord button was an amazing feat for an amateur musician, you could just hit random chord combinations and get amazing progressions.
You, Sir, are a true and unique artist. Music, comedy, video, artwork, everything. And your epic reviews are as entertaining as they are informative, leaving me in absolute awe everytime.
And my favourite thing about each and every video is the fact that in the end, I'm always left with an almost poetic tiny piece of doubt of: "is this now the most epic cult no-brainer buy or the worst piece of gear in the world ever?" Just how it should be.
My deepest admiration for your work and may you be blessed by life like we are blessed by you.🙏🙏🙏
Thank you so much!!!
you looked like the head bobbing cat meme in the reflection on the screen in the first jam lol
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I really rate this unit (which I have), it's really good as an ideas scratchpad if nothing else. I think it is unique in that it has a chord playing function and is intuitive for guitar players as well as keyboard players.
Definitely an acquired taste...
@@AudioPilz Maybe I'm a little biased having worked at Roland (UK), and being an authorised service centre for them almost 36 years!
I had one around '98 and I've genuinely never had as deep, muscle-memory familiarity with a programmable bit of music gear and have been chasing it ever since, lol. Maybe I should buy another to use as my sequencer 😂
Always the best content and reviews, greetings from brasil
Obrigado!!!
I always love the weird, vintage video clips you use in the jam section
Thank you!!!
Bad gear finale that sounds like Front 242 was not in my 2024 predictions 😳
Thank you!!!
Bought one used (50 francs !), can even remember when (1995 ?), used it as a rythm box until I discovered what it can do ! It's a fantastic notepad for inspiration, you can also plug an instrument in it, never understood why boss never made a actual version.
Nice!!!
This is my first watching one of your videos, and immediately I was thinking "oh no, he's posting meme reactions to words he saying, not this", but then I realized you did it for nearly every word, and that's dedication to the craft so you've turned me completely around.
Happy to hear that!!! Thanks!!!
JAM #2 gave me some real shivers! I'm going to have to join your Patreon to assuage myself of the guilt of ripping its audio and creating myself a 3 hour loop. I hope it's still playing when they find my body.
Thank you so much!!! See you on the other side...
The DR-5 was my first gear box. Had a love/hate relationship with it. It was expensive, around $1,000 US adjusted for inflation, considering what that gets you today. It was a nice portable machine for its time with unique features like battey power, DI & fretboard, but very limited compared to workstation keys then. It sits in my closet now collecting dust.
I bought one of these when I was 16 years old, I still have it in working condition. That poor Dr-5 has been through a lot though.
Nice!!!
@@AudioPilz Just for context of how long I've had it, I'm now 44 years old.
OMG vintage drum machines on board please more more more
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My (blind) dad was complaining that headphones I used previously (they were like $8 and you can't buy them anywhere), though they have solid build quality (dual steel bands + some sort of not quite leather thing but not quite as cheap as the pleather on the ear cushions), which he's used for like, I dunno, a year or so was hurting his ears after a few hours. So I placed them around a box (I shit you not), and used elastic bands near the ear cushions to make sure the frame doesn't deform at an angle. The fsccking bizarre thing is, after leaving it like that, balanced, for like 5 days, without it being used he said "They sound better". I thought it was gonna improve comfort, apparently I was wrong about that.
Woohoo happy Friday!!!! My first digital instrument was the Dr 660 so this hits right in the feels!
Great!!! Have a nice weekend!!!
Mine too. This certainly shows its family resemblance.
Imagine running a UV light over that DR5. It looks like it's still got the bodily fluids of teenagers and grown men breeding around those buttons from 30 years ago. Make sure you wash your hands after every use.
It was already disinfected...
What an odd comment.
@kommissar.murphy don't make me come for you with the UV light. You don't want everyone to see the state of your glockenspiel. Ya filthy animal.
Boss DR-5 as well as DR 660 are the drum machines responsible for the whole Memphis hip-hop sound
Thanks for the heads up!!!
It coulda been the sound of New Jersey hip hop too back in in niney-fow.
I took an airplane trip across country in the late 90's with one of these and was composing music while the other passengers were watching some dumb movie - it was awesome. I just bought another one. Thinking of linking them together for 8 tracks of synced MIDI wonderment...
Every sound in The Universe: Swag walk
TR-808 CB: Punch in the face =D
The one and only
As an owner of a Dr-5 I really enjoy it as a midi controller, being a guitar player myself.
Nice!!!
Another fantastic video!
Thank you so much!!!
another amazing episode and the memes are getting really intense lately 😳🙀😂...that third jam tho...definitely patreon-review-worthy 😎🤗 (also great to see the Rocket again 😁)
Thank you!!!
Finally, something close to the arranger category ;) And it is Roland again :) To my mind, this is kind of a Boss DS 330 with some DR660 sounds blended together with a programmable backing band, which for itself alone, is very interesting. It's on my watchlist, but I had to get me THAT SNARE first ;) Imagine the level of crap you step into when you combine a DR 660, a DS 330, and the DR 5 in a setup. I'm looking forward to that kind of abomination :)
And forgive me for asking again: DO THE RA 50 :) That thing is very very fun to use, escpecially if you are a Roland oldschool weirdo with a questionable amount of old keyboard sheets of "Evergreens" :)
RA-50 - THE HORROR!!!
@@AudioPilz Don't say that before you made a beautiful rendition of "Tulpen aus Amsterdam" with it :)
This episode achieved a respectable MPE ( memes per episode) rating of 70 contained within...
Which is why it takes 35 minutes to watch a 9 minute episode (on mobile).
Not bad;)
Wow ! I was shocked to find that audio in features pitch tracking .
I want one now. Your guitar played a harmonica trumpet thing . Very cool . On my way to reverb now 😊 . Great show sir.
Thank you!!!
@5:05 - @6:10 good job with the audio application you ultilized it in creative ways
"Wrap your head around the ancient philosophy"
That's a "truth" at it finest!
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Do a Chompi episode, because that thing (by orher reviews amd reviewers' experience) is as stable as a Bethesda game right after publishing, with a city clock and a city interface
Great suggestion, thank you!!!
So not for country living then.
@@treetopjones737 No, city like in
"Herro, this is City Wok, may I take your order? Do you want city rice or city noodles?"
This and the Tr 626 were THE drum machine when I did solo Tiki bar gigs in 90s in my little beach town. I'm a guitarist. It was perfect since most guitarists couldn't program those old Roland's to save their life. Excellent video as always !
Love the 626!!! Thanks!!!
The design reminds me of 90's office equipement. It just sort of resembles the keypad of a Fax/Copier or a polycom desk phone. It's appearance convey that kind UI aesthetic. This would be the perfect instrument for creating buisnesswave. It makes music and it's office appliance at the same time!
Businesswave for days!!!
Dude, why didn't you Seinfeld with that cheesy bass slap?
Because I can't play;)
@@AudioPilz Said the CZcams algorithm.
I am completely out of superlatives haven't used here before in your comments section. This channel and your composition/production are the electronic equivalent to that guitarist adage "Tone comes from the fingers." I'm always slightly ashamed of gear I see on this channel that I abandoned in the past. It wasn't the gear that was the problem.
Thank you so much!!!
I have a DR660. This certainly shows much in the way of family resemblance. The buttons, the screen, the esoteric programming. Happy days.
Classic DRs are AWESOME!!!
I’ve had one for since it was new, and loved it so much I bought another one when all the memory was full. 😂
This is my most used “drum” machine, and it is most excellent when ran through a couple effects chains.
My most recent favorite way of using it is running it through the aux/in of my Behringer Pro One and a Boss Feedbacker/Booster. That gets pretty nuts!
Nice setup!!!
PUNCHY AF!
Yessssssss
Dude, Did you mention they were cheap???? (were)
;)
A new peak milestone in genius video production, script and hillarious inside jokes.
Thank you so much!!!
My brother had one of these for his black metal band in the late 90s. Awesome to see it in this context!
Ah, one of the classic metal drum machines!!!
Ridiculous calculator UI still somehow better than current generation Roland products almost 30 years later.
Lol, shots fired;)
Cheap....for now.
It's usually just a little price spike...
The production on Boogaloo finale is on the same level as the meme at @7:32. So good!
The mona lisa of memes;)
Your killing it lately
Thank you so much!!!
That clip of the teacher from Whiplash when you were entering those drum notes against the metronome was absolute gold. Love your humour thanks ❤
Thank you so much!!!
This was almost my first piece of synth gear back in the day. Went with the MC-303 instead.
MC-303 is a classic too!!!
Haha, i love that pic of Ian Pooley picking up his Moog!
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Just scooped one of these at Goodwill for $20! It was sitting on the electronics shelves under a dial-up modem
Great work as always.
Cheers
A Friend in Chicago
🌙 MoonDog
Nice find!!!❤️❤️❤️
Wow i remember that thing, never knew it was such a serious contender for use as a Rompler module live
The sequencer is super powerful
Beautiful how you summarized everything with "1 Wasser bitte'
Thank you!!!
I always select one meme included here and send it to a friend. This time it was new AFX album anime thing. Thanks for keeping my social life afloat :D
Always a pleasure!!! That one actually was from “Macross”
My dad had one and it was my first ❤
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The last tune had a cool groove. Well done.
Thank you!!!
You had me at cheesy 90s rompler, but guitar input? Now I'm sold.
When the stars align
Sounds good. Is surprising the amount of polyphony. Very versatile.
Agreed!!!
Your pro jam at the end was bringing really big Mind's-Eye-Soundtrack-Jan-Hammer.
Thank you so much!!!
My first bit of gear, back in 1992/3 was a Kawai K4, and the second a DR660, so I've always had a soft spot for the little Boss boxes - they pack a lot! On that note, the K4 was sold in the late 90s, but a K1 arrived last week - it's good to find the bargains, there are plenty left if you are willing to broaden your horizons!
K4 is super interesting!
I've had one of these since 1995. Never figured it out to the level where I could actually write something, but maybe some otherwise lost day I'll drag it out and occasionally glance at it aggressively.
Aggressive glances usually do the trick for me
Are you spying on my studio gear? Watching BG is like a bad case of Deja Vu sometimes haha!! This thing is an instant house chord stab box, never used it for its intended purpose but instead as a kooky MIDI controller, it’s actually great in that capacity!!
I'd never;)
The entire soundset heavily reminds me of the N64 GoldenEye 007 soundtrack. I love it.
These were the days!!!
That trance breaks piano section was so good
Thank you!!!
Love it!
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Congrats on your 120,213 subscribers!
Thank you so much!!!
Dude! This was my first bit of kit, which I bought for £50 from some 2nd hand shop. I played bass, so the guitar layout kind of made sense. My 2nd bit of gear was a waldorf pulse, and for years thats all I had - a DR5 paired with a waldorf Pulse. It was bad ass!
I sure am glad I picked one of these a few weeks ago before the bad gear price spike
Nice!!!