Boss DR-202 Dr.Groove
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มิ.ย. 2016
- Sorry for the low volume. I wanted to record the instrument as it is. Without any compression, limiters etc. Just crank up the volume :)
Boss DR-202 was the first piece of gear I ever owned. I got it right when it came out1998.
I've saved the very first patches and patterns from the day when I got it and never had heart to record over those. In this video there is patterns from my really early days getting familiar with hardware gear, to more new stuff that I've programmed in last five years. This is not ment to be a product demo. Just to show how DR-202 sounds. Most of the TH-cam videos from it seem to be hip hop oriented.
While its my first groovebox I still use it. It has pretty good set of drum sounds and its sequencer gets a lot of use.
DR-202 has three sequencer tracks, DRUMS, BASS and EXTernal.
Bass and Ext channels are polyphonic so you can record chords etc. Only bigger limitation for me is the pattern lenght. Patterns max lenght is 8 bars. - เพลง
Oh man I spent countless nights in my bedroom with this baby and a pair of headphones back in the late 90's. Was a fabulous machine for it's time.
Thans Justin :) I've spend fair share of time with this thing too in
the past. After all these years I still find it useful. Even as an
simple sequencer for example drums or bassline this thing rocks. Hook it
with external gear and use 202's sequencers groove templates to get
really cool shuffle and swing patterns.
For some reason I just love the design of their gear during this phase. It's just so...Wargames peripheral.
This thing looks so sweet. I 100% don't need it, but I *want* it.
Prices are going up on this unit too. Got one cheap from Japan. It’s battery powered and pairs great with any volca or Monotribe (with midi mod).
Thanks for reminding me how great this box is. Spent hours looking for something new and decided to re-review my DR, so glad I found your video. I need to find my DR now, it's stored somewhere in my place and it is exactly what I needed to complete my street gig setup. Sometimes what you really need...you already have it.
I bought this back in around '97. It has been collecting dust for a while now. This video single-handedly made me decide to keep it. Excellent work. Now I will dedicate myself to (trying to) make some patterns as good as yours. Cheers
this sounds so beautiful! and I love the design...
I remember trying to make trance music with this, also old r&b and underground hip hop, I used to bring this in the bus with me , oh the memories.❤️
I love using samples from this box. Pretty good sounds.
DR-202 was my second "groovebox". The first was the MC-303. I just purchased a TR-8 and after all I wonder if that was really necessary. The 202 is a wonderful little box, and like you, it's fun to come back to these patterns that I did 15 years ago! The TR-8 has just 16 patterns. This drives me mad that Roland limited the number of patterns, kits, etc on the TR-8 when memory is so cheap today!
This, (I got one last night) is a MONSTER. Really cool video.
Been hunting forever for an old school drum machine. FINALLY! I am loving this. Had a Yamaha rx11 back in 96 or 97 that I picked up from a pawn shop. Loved that thing but wanted something with a little more variation and functionality. Trying to get further away from my PC and back to my roots. Everything digital these days I just find stifling to creativity.
I didn't even know this one. Fantastic!
Great demo ! Thanks.
Oh I remember everything in hearing..sent chills down my spine I'm bout to try and snag one off of ebay
Always loved this thing! Gotta pull it outta my closet 1of these days & fire it back up
Loved this. Really useable sounds. Boss reverbs are always great too. External sequencing is brilliant. For someone who can't afford a maschine or circuit could this do a decent fake
Got mine in Japan and haven't used it in years (like over a decade). Just took it out again for another go round. Wish I could change to English settings. My kids are using it now. Guess they'll have to learn Japanese.
This is so great.
Alpha Juno Humble Thank you! Great to hear comments that! :)
Dude!... Nitzer ebb, Nine Inch Nails, How To Destroy Angels, Hardfloor among many other genres. Mad props👌 for giving these genres respect!👍 it'd be cool to see you do "Meat Beat Manifesto" beats with this!?🎧💫😵👌😎👍✌
Own one since 90ies, will never ever sell it
Ok.. You make me want to not sell mine!!! Lol... Nice patterns you've got there
dude, I will BUY yours :D heh
Brilliant man. I'm going to get one now based on this demo. They don't look to come up too often on eBay though...
Thank you! I have to take that as an Huge compliment :) Couple of years back there was plenty of these going around and I thought that I would get another one, simply because of its cool sequencer. These still pop up at eBay almost weekly and there is three in auction at the moment, but prices are bit steep. I would pay around 100$/100€ for a DR-202 in fair condition. I've seen some go as cheat as 50-75$.
I just found out about this gem the other day
My 1st Drum
Machine....
Awesome Demonstration
Brett Ireland thank you for taking time for comment, and great to hear you found this useful/informative :)
I just bought one on eBay, cant wait to play with it.. Thanks to your Demo!
Je ne sais pas mais elle m'a l'air bien électro cette boîte à rythmes...elle est géniale !
Also liked the more recent tracks by my fave band DM. Versatile machine.
Nice work!!! Can you "write" for this externally, and then dump a sysex file to the 202? Any editor for it or is it all panel-based?
Perfect
Best demo
Thank you for the compliments :)
Great- finally a beat made with the Sampletrak directly recorded. All these cell phone recordings have crap audio. Thanks!
Also- is that reverse effect in the zoom Sampletrak?
Nice patterns
David Cogan Thank you David! ☺️
niiiiice demo
Very cool... love user 50... Duran Duran save a prayer...
Wow! This video convinced to buy one let's see :) were these programmed on the box or using an external controller?
I love this machine. Is the one in the video modded? I have a pair, one from the original release and another from a few years later, but have never seen one with a green “play/start” led. Great video, btw!
Glenn DiLando You are right. I modded mine back in the day. I teared down my old Nokia phone and took a green SMD led from it and soldered on my DR-202
Amazing instrument, and if you're singing and playing guitar, would do wonders paired with sp202 as back up band, even for practice. The synth sounds great, both bass and high notes. Thanks for the review. I was aware of this and the sp202 back in the days and was intrigued but never really looked into what they could do. The Dr202 will also work as the sequencer the sp202 is lacking.
why not get a dr-55 as well while you're at it (incidently i have one of those) go for the colour coordinated initial release triple threat
I bet if you ran this thing through the 404, you could do some really crazy stuff. :D
I have the DR-880 but this is an entirely different beast. Way more techno and dance oriented. It looks like it could have been an inspiration for the JD-XI in terms of looks.
Cool!
Thank you! :)
i'm thinking about getting this for my youngest brother, who will be 10 this year. i started off making beats on fl studio then i messed around with the mpc1000 for a while then due to tough times, had to sell it for rent. i ended up going back to fl studio. i might end up getting one of these for myself too lol .
do you know how to erase the preset rolls and mute? thanks
Oh nooo now I want it :( :D
Ah, The Normal @4:47. Sounds good.
de quien es el track user26 TRENCH ?
DEPECHE MODE! The Best band!
Hi what cord are useing to plug in the mixer
Hey I have a question as Im using a 202 myself. The other day I got the Roll to start playing just before the end of every sequence. I dont know how I did it but it was syncing in time with the bmp and the sequence, even when I was changing through the kits it continued to play like 2 seconds of roll before the end of every sequence without me being able to stop it. And it actually made the change overs into different kits sound really amazing because it was in time! Sorry If I sound like a complete dumbie but I've never been able to do this before and I also don't know how I did it/havent been able to since. Any helpers on youtube out there that can explain how I achieved this phenomena ? ps. the Boss manual doesnt explain it.....
Select roll then press the jog wheel to scroll through roll options.
Hey, superb 202 vid. Thanks. Can you help me? I have a DR-202 but could never work out how to delete the EXT midi data in a pattern without deleting the whole pattern if I made a mistake in recording. It was easy to delete the drum & bass parts whilst still in record but not the EXT midi part.
Volt7 Cool Tangs I think you can delete the External MIDI sequence part by selecing it using SHIFT+MIDI and then selecting step record and delete the notes there. I have to check this but I think that’s how I do it.
Volt7 Cool Tangs I remembed it wrong 😂
To switch to EXT in recording press SHIFT+BASS
That pattern that starts at 0:53 sounds like the 80's wrestling tag team the Midnight Express's entrance music.
should get one of these to keep my SP-202 company
gavin peters My friend had DR-202 and SP-202 at the end of ninetees. A perfect match visually and for compact ”tweaking” 😁
How come your Start button is green?? Mine is red! :)
Yeah, mine's red as well. Really like that green one. Or something like purple would be cool.. :)
Nice live demo, I've owned this along with a SP-202 since way back in 1998. If you don't mind me asking but how did you get such amazing sound on your recording? Did you record with the MIDI or Step/Live recording? 2 thumbs way up by the way.
Thank, glad that you liked it! :) All the beats and sequenced are recorded with Step recording. It can be pretty tedious at least with patterns that are 8 bars long and have busy polyphonic arpeggio running through the pattern.
I've used this machine almost 20 years so I guess I'm just got used to use it internal sequencer in step mode.
+tiergrinder this drum machine although it's over 20 years old now is nonetheless a beast especially with MIDI and the built-in in sequencer makes this 1 of the cheapest drums with so many abilities I've ever used.
I still have one of these as well, and must know (as Aaron asked), how did you get the great noise-free sound? Mine had a hiss from day 1 when I got it back in '98.
@@arontaylor8755 you using a dedicated BOSS adapter with the DR 202? I use to have a similar problem when I used a bullshit Walmart adapter.
What type of adapter are you referring to? I simply connected RCA cables from the DR-202 to my mixer, and I've connected it to several different mixers over the years. Is there a special adapter for it that eliminates this hiss? If so, I'd love to know what it's called and where to find one! Thanks for the response.
I's it possible to change the pitch of the drums?
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Like !!!
Thank you!
0:39 jungle / drum & bass break
You can record this into ableton?
Does anybody know if there's a linux VST(i) emulator for this puppy?
I miss that box so much. I think my little brother stole it ... anyway.
Just buy the box... Prices are still low on this thing.
can someone do a tutorial on how to make your own sequence from scratch?
Read the manual.
@@SPAZZOID100 If I knew how to read it I wouldnt be asking for a video
th-cam.com/video/6YWuykF-H6c/w-d-xo.html
I love this old little machine. So some of the "bass" sounds are polyphonic? But you can't play chords right?
Bass and external sequencer are polyphonic so yes chords are do-able.
@@sheepkillindog today you can buy a novation circuit tracks for some pretty sophisticated drum and bass stuff but eventually would love to explore pairing dr 202 with sp202
@@sheepkillindog Thanks. I love this machine, maybe one day I'll hunt one down
Warm leatherette cool man !
I heard join in the chant as well
Yup
Think I could get some industrial sort of godflesh sounds from this?
I listened couple Godflesh tracks and I'm pretty confident that DR-202 fits for industrial beats too. DR-202 has TR-707, TR-808 and TR-909 samples in it. It also had nice selection of "acoustic" drum kicks, snares, hats and percussions that would fit for rock and industrial use. You can also pitch drum sounds to fit those better for a track.
Many of the pioneer EBM and Industrial bands used a lot of roland TR-series back then. Nitzer EBB and Front Line Assembly used lot of TR-707, Trent used 808 and 909 on early NIN releases. I think Skinny Puppy used a lot of TR drum machines too. I read that Godflesh original drum machine was an Alesis HR-16. You can find those cheap but programming and editing is much easier on DR-202.
tiergrinder thanks dude! This is super helpful
Alesis hr 16 but it depend how you process your drums. Pitch down reverb and compressor etc
Black celebration Depeche mode
Home Depeche mode
Wrong all this .. really cool
so what does the mute button do - i mean, nothing is muted?
maranezzi21 It mutes specific instruments
I just can't see how this would work out for fiddle playing for bluegrass or old time fiddle music other then that great for other instruments
Its hard to mix Bluegrass with Dance music - for starters Bluegrass has that 2/4 feel that does not work with most 4/4 patterns. Also the tempo of bluegrass means you have to play normal patterns either half speed or Double speed. You will have more luck with old time modal stuff fitting with Dance music than anything more country.
@5:00 killer and @12:28 also
I like this machine but it's giving me such a hard time. It's not saving anything I do. This machine is kind of tricky and the manual doesn't help much
What issues you are having when you say it doesn't save anything?
Give me details and I try to help you out :)
Try replacing the internal battery. It will erase anything that is saved when you take the battery out though.
Thanks for a demo that is not some shitty hip hop for once :p
6:40 isn't good its damn awesome man
15:40
I too love music. You should check out the vevo music video version of cold irons bound by bob dylan. It is told through the perspective of Jesus pleading with his decaying church. Also you would love the red shoes! It will blow your mind.
Can you pitch drums
Edwin J. Morais Jr. Yes you can. All drums have individual settings that you can change inder Kit edit. You can select sounds for each pads, alter volume, pitch, decay and how much effects like flanger, delay and reverb affect to that sound.
You little genre kitten
Can it sample?
King Steelo Nope
T U R K - 1 8 2 I assumed so. Thanks for the answer.
check out some original work made on this baby :
th-cam.com/video/wN_A61T74-o/w-d-xo.html
Help
Anybody used the hack yet? Seems all legit just don't have a pc with a MIDI input or I'd sure as shit have treated this by now...
www.geocities.ws/nolockglock/29aDR202.htm
From what I read inside the hacks folder contents all you need basically is a MIDI out to a PC or laptop with a MIDI input..
Hello respond
This is pretty much a Tempest. Shame on Roger for the high price tag.
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