Bad Gear - Boss DR-3 Dr. Rhythm - Doctor Getting Worse???
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- Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Boss DR-3 Dr. Rhythm digital drum machine. We liked (most of) its predecessors but is this more recent model any good? Is the doctor getting worse?
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Voted for you immediately! So glad to see you get some well-earned recognition!
You've got my vote - Good luck!
Voted for the “sonic mushroom” 😉
Thanks for the link, you just got my vote - love the humour, info' and it's all educational too, keep up the great work !
Good Luck bro.
You're definitely gonna win personality of the year!
Let's hope for the best (very prominent nominees) Thanks for your support!
if he doesn’t, it will have been a robbery.
The jokes and delivery are on point
Unfortunately it's unlikely since he has so few subscribers to vote for him.
"There's a cowbell in it too" Sold.
I'll take two!
Half the reason I watch this show is just to see what crazy sub-sub genre of electronic music he’s going to showcase... and he never lets me down 🤣
We need more Robodance in the charts!
I screenshot every one of 'em so's I can remember 'em :D
I gigged with this for over 10 years. It worked like a dream for this piano bar entertainer. More punchy and fat sounding than the Alesis SR-16/SR-18 . I did however mute the bass part and used the bass sounds on my Motif and Roland RD pianos. The song/user style section was good for making gig lists. I had structured it so that I had four sets of songs ready, and I had the first 3 user styles as general-purpose ones to be able to requests on the fly - even mid-song, which the fill to new style undocumented feature does amazingly.
This was probably the intended use. Great to hear it worked for you
Mine finally went to drum machine heaven yesterday. I always thought it was a good machine. I wished there were more bass voices, but it was a pretty reliable unit overall. I've got an Alesis 18 on order. Hopefully that will work out.
it seems like it would be really fun to jam with tbh
The thing that this series made me want more than anything is not Bad Gear, but in fact the unified currency of dollareuropound.
All hail the Global Union.
World peace through gear!
Truly terrible, so absolutely perfect.
You should definitely win the award. I'll wote for you.
Thanks!
@@AudioPilz Oh... My other favourite synth guy is here... I feel like I'm cheating on one of you... 😯😂😬
Everybody knows Geert Van Schlänger is the music tech personality of the decade. There is no competition.
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This is a drum machine for the solo live performing musicians, it can’t be compared to modern drum machines since all of modern drum machines are mostly made for production or electronic music and not for live performance, this one is in its own category, I love having 3 variations with 3 fills at the touch of a button plus intro and and ending buttons, I own 2 and use them to play live, I play in bars and restaurants and this baby works awesome for that, I wish Roland made more advance version of this one that would allow me to save the data and transfer it to a second drum machine or to have a backup, to this date I have not seen another drum machine that would be this easy to use during a live performance sometimes improvising songs that the audience asks me to play if anyone knows of another please replay and let me know :-)
Have you tried the DR-880? Seems to be a nice package!
We call it "Aldis" in Chicago.
We add the S to every grocery store, I don't know why.
Are they really a thing in the US? Didn't know (I thought their concept didn't work well there)
Definitely got my vote, my favourite new YT channel of the year.
Thank you so much!
Best thing of 2020
I should add that I love that it is awailable every Friday at 5pm.
Let me add, why I look forward to watching your episodes: I work with Covid-19 patients, I listen to them and yes, shit has hit the fan for many in many ways, losing their jobs and worse, losing their lives. So after a long day at work, I plug my 2013 Apple wired earplugs into my now ancient iPhone 6 and relax with your funny, educational and pleasing visually videos. Thank you my friend and I hope you win this contest!
Thanks! That's a heartwarming comment. Stay strong, my friend!
Glad you voted for Nick, he was your only competition for my vote. Naturally I voted for you bro 👊
Very kind of you! Thanks!
I’m Dr Rhythm and my prescription is more preset basslines
The Doctor's in!
As an amateur guitarist and past open mic host, this little unit has served me well but I only ever used the drum function with the recommended dual footswitch. For that kind of use, the unit is absolutely fantastic and is still going strong after many years. Being able to trigger the fill while paying through the beat pattern transitions is a lot of fun and the unit sounds pretty acceptable through an amp. Great for guitarists and keyboard players. I feel that I've had my money's worth out of this little unit many times over. A great review though by a highly technical reviewer, which I found very interesting. Informative and a lot of fun to watch. Thank you for a great post.
The first rule of dawless jamming is to never stop talking about dawless jamming.
It can be truly liberating to make electronic music without a computer (but talking about feels great, too;)
This Doctor Mix is getting worse and worse
Rhythm, it's Dr. Rhythm... ;)
That was some of the most translucent shade I've seen dished out in a while 😦
🤣
@AudioPilz Jokes aside man congratulations. As I understand it you are in one list with the twenty best tech youtubers. Meaning probably in all of social media...?
This is really good and a nice affirmation. 🥳👍
Doctor who?
A friend gave me this piece of gear.
Although I can’t operate the Apollo 13 rocket, or a submarine by myself, I *do* know how to push the “start here” button.
They wanted to make sure that everyone gets it😅
I loved that bass filter sweep.
Thanks! It was EXTREMELY difficult to get the levels right
Cuts to clip of public lavatory, i am crying
Not exactly a Lexicon ;)
You should do a "best of" Bad Gear Easter eggs video. I know I miss a lot of them, so I'd love to have you point some of the best of them out.
Thanks for the input. I thought about that but different people like different easter eggs. Maybe an easter egg voting?
it sounds just GREAT!Powerful,punchy,mix-ready drums
..I only use the preset tones in my DAW for recording...so I don't have to fight with the menues etc.
now the DR-880 is on the way...which is a monster!
I love your demos...very creative and musical...and the DR-3 sounds fabulous in your set up!
Thank you!!!
Thanks for another great video! These boxes really were so bad, bit I really want one of those, 'Press here to start!' stickers for some reason.
Thanks! "Press here to start!" - stickers coming soon as merch!
I asked my wife to vote or she could listen to me (try to) explain how FM synthesis work... She promptly voted.
You're a good husband! Thanks to both of you!
Congrats on the nomination. Your channel and Hainbach are two of my favorite channels. These are the two I watch as soon as I can.
Happy to hear that! Hainbach is great!
I bet someone got a bonus for thinking of that "Press here to start" sticker pointing to the "START" button ... thanks for pointing it out!
I think it was their last resort;)
Congrats on the nomination!!! I say it is well deserved, and we're all pulling for you here!
Thanks! We are already one step further ;)
i have my DR-3 here since 2015 or something and i just found out that TSC stands for total sonic corruption thanks!
It's in the manual;)
The black and white crowd cheering on the 20th century tv 👌👌👌 some classic video edits
Thanks!
This really is a bad gear; looks boring, hard-to-read screen, hard-to-use sequencer. I don't consider DR-550 series as a bad gear at all, but DR-3 is just so bad...
This one is really a step back!
Nah. It's y'all. Not the gear. Fact.
I use a DR-3 a fair bit. I set up my own user kit (you have to vol balance all the different samples as you mentioned) and a user 'soundshape' EQ and just control it via midi. I like a lot of the drum samples, and the bass samples can be fun for cheese and retro stuff.
Agreed! What nagged me is that they had nailed it (at least) 15 years before and got sloppy with this one
What about a video featuring the yamaha QY20?
I had one, stolen in my studio in Africa, a long time ago...
And also a video about the Yamaha SU700 (I still have it, maybe more difficult to steal...) and its almost infiniiiiiiiiiiiite loading time, either from floppies and from SCSI.
Thanks for the input! QYs are ideal for Bad Gear but the learning curve is BRUTAL! IDK how to cram it in in a week
@@AudioPilz Had a Qy 10 and 20 in the 90s. They both lack fx and are very dry but the 20s GUI was ok and a lot easier to program.
Finally... another Friday and some more bad gear.
Thank god it's Friday!
I hope you win! They should have a funniest category, you'd win that every year!
Yeezy 4 president!
ok i died when i saw that high end yamaha djx groovebox
Isn't it high end? ;)
High profile
Video outro features a cowbell. This channel is amazing
Thank you!!!
Congratulations on being nominated my friend! Awesome content!
Thank you!
I love the beneath the planet of the apes meme in the begging 👍🏼
Let's reveal our inmost selves ;)
Oh boy, had a Dr550 mkII, a Dr5, now am planning on this Dr3. The generations are such wonder
Yeah, good old doctors;)
@@AudioPilz i wish they kept the tap tempo and leds on the buttons on the dr5
you never bought it and got the 880 years later
Hahahaaaa Yo you had me with the "Animal Rights Advocacy" the "cow bell" hit was just OVERKILL !!!!! 😂 😂 😂
😀😀😀 thanks!
Thanks for reminding me to vote for Nick, he really is great isn't he?
Haha, not really. You're my very favourite Austrian music technology comedian on TH-cam ❤️
Thanks! ❤️Nick❤️
Every week i am amazed again deeply by the amount of work you put into making this videos presenting the world (more or less) crappy gear. I am also very much looking forward every week to your next video
Thank you so much!
I was loaned one when my SR-18 died and at first I thought that this was an unusable dumbed down POS. Then I revisited some tracks I'd recorded with the SR-18 and found that I got perfectly decent drum tracks by using the intro/fill/part buttons. The ambience actually helped the drums to sit in the mixes. But yeah, the UI is crap and you can't seem to tune the samples. I've been using Boss drum machines since the late 80's and this one has the worst sequencing of all of them. Nowadays I write MIDI drum parts directly into Reaper's MIDI editor and I've poached all of the sounds I could out of every drum machine available. That's the best of all worlds.
Agreed, that's the way to go
Actually not sure if the good Dr qualifies as bad gear. It actually sounds pretty good!
Better a bad doctor than none;)
The DR-3 rhythms and bass lines were found in a dumpster at Yamaha after they threw out the rejects from demo songs on their PortaSound "Christmas Gift" keyboards.
Can I have a time machine and an exact location of that dumpster?
my favourite comment.
Great Job on the nomination. Does that mean you've got the dough to review the Roland SH-32 now?
Thanks! It's not the Nobel Prize, I think we're all in it for the fame only ;)
Thought this was the worst of the worst gear, but then I heard that bassline at 6:20 and fell in love. Kind of.
Yeah, it has that one good bass sound ;)
I hope you win it mate there's a lot of great channels, yours being one but your sense of humour is unrivalled haha. I can't watch one of your videos without pissing myself at least once to something you've slipped in in the cleverest of ways. Haha keep it up amigo
Thank you so much!
@@AudioPilz Same here, it's a rare video I don't find myself laughing out loud. Great delivery and pace, vote given :D
Oh, and the cowbell!!!
Yup, I've got one and for a while video tutorials for this unit were the most viewed videos on my channels. Gigged with it couple of times. It was great, especially with the ability to switch patterns with a foot switch. Also I used to dump drum and bass parts from my daw to the dr3 via midi. That's simple. The only con I can come up with is the lack of electronic hats. Only acoustic ones and it sucks!
Sending the parts over from the daw via midi is a great idea. I will use it in a future episode! Thanks!
i already plugged the DR-5 and Better(?) Gear DR-660 last time and i want to mention them again, but more importantly i'd love to see you explore the alesis QS6/QS7 or another quadrasynth model. when i was 16 making industrial music, all the rich kids online had a kurzweil K2000/ensoniq ASR-10 while a lot of somewhat less affluent kids with supportive parents had the QS6/7. these completely avoided any recognizable musical relevance, yet at one time it seemed they were everywhere. i used one only briefly, but i had the impression that it was pretty legit for a 90s ROMpler. alesis also had the nanosynth and i've often thought about getting one, at least to sample any nice sounds and sell/donate.
Thanks for the input!
Alesis Micron could be interesting. It was essentially a control less version of the Ion, but could do everything his larger version was capable of.
Great idea! I'll take a closer look!
Has this been asked already but have you reviewed the DR-5? With it's "a bit like a fretboard" interface? You could also use it as a (bit wobbly) guitar synth!
Yeah, the DR5 came up a few times, thanks for the input. Let's see if one pops up in the local classifieds
no other online music tech personality makes bad gear sound good. you got my vote!
PS will you do another bad gear jam when you win?
THANKS! ATM it's a bit difficult to find nice locations around here bc of winter and lockdown but I will have to find a way
@@AudioPilz you're the best!
"There's a cowbell in it too." Shut up and take my money!
It's the cure
* 2 cowbells lol
@6:12 - great sounding jam!
Thanks!
Velocity sensitive pads? Ok I’m trading in my digitakt.
That's what I thought ;)
LOL sacrilege
Congrats on the nomination! Edit: holy cow that green screen footage channel is killer! Thanks for posting the link! Also that guitar tune was killer, super punchy sounds
Thank you! Yeah, those guys are phenomenal
"Keep Power On !" was my signature on forums for years. It appeared on the MC-505.
It would have been more enjoyable to see in a forum then than on the machine ;)
The best part of whatever day these are uploaded on!
Happy to hear that!
Back when I first was getting into synth hardware, I happened to see this thing sitting on a shelf in an antique shop with my mom for only $50. 15 year old me spending my mother's money didn't think this thing worth even that much money.
I never thought about this damn thing again for YEARS until I discovered your video on it here lol. Glad to know it wasn't just my inexperience that made me think it was bad gear
I think you paid exactly what it was worth ;)
@@AudioPilz not exactly. I remember taking it to a pawn shop to sell and a worker was talking to his buddy about music and he asked me if I made anything on it (clearly not knowing what it was). I showed him a few beats I made and I saw a slight roll in his eye and he said "oh" and went back to talking to his buddy
$50 for a shitty drum machine and a feeling of embarrassment from some pretentious jackasses that's lasted for over a decade 😅
Yep don’t feel bad.
I had same experience when I got my Ensoniq Mirage for 125$.
I was like: b💩tch you work in a music store getting your ears blown out by tossers playing Metallica riffs all day. You haven’t got a clue what good sound is, even😺
A bad workman blames the tools 🤣
I put in my vote for ya!
Gear suggestion. Ensoniq ASR-X. Great sampler, and effects. terrible terrible sequencing problems from midi lag to choking on fx changes.
Love the vids. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! Great input!
Man you should win it. As much as I love Nick, you interact with your subscribers more than most others. You have my vote! ... but I digress.
I actually prefer the nostalgic sound of the TR-505 over this.
Thanks!
Great vid !! Hope to see a vid on The Yamaha SU200 ✌️😄
Thanks! Already searching for one!
Let it be known - I LOVE THIS MAN’S VIDEOS
Thanks, man!
Voted for you. There are some great channels in the list. If I want to learn the ins and outs of a particular synth right down to what it smells like and how many screws it has I visit Loopop. But if I want obscure 80s and 90s references that make me laugh my ass off your bad gear reviews never fail! Good luck.
Thank you so much!
Oh man I remember I programmed "Spiral Dance" by Keith Jarrett on a DR-5 and a couple of friends programmed entire songs as well.
Nice!!!!
There was a Dr-202 that seemed aimed as a crossover between the types who'd usually get a Boss drum machine and electronic musicians who couldn't afford to get the Roland MC-whatever. I remember testing one at a crappy instrument store back in tha day (they had one room of keyboards & drum machines, most of their merch was guitars & brass)
Great input! These have become quite costly!
Reeeeveeeeerbbbb...
*shows toilet stalls*
I'm gonna sell my Lexicon!
acoustics in restrooms are very under-rated
This one takes user unfriendliness to the punchintheface/kickinthenuts extreme. If you want to put someone off synthing for life, give them one of these and an MT32 for Xmas. Along with a 5pin din lead with only three random pins.
Yeah, that one might have killed some careers
There are two new drum machines released fairly recently: The Yamaha FGDP-50 & 30. Not sure if they would belong in Bad Gear or Better Gear though but it'd be interesting to see what you think. I'm interested in getting the 50 btw.
I guess this is Boss channeling their inner Roland TR-606/TB-303. If they intend this for a guitarist or one-man band type of live setup, that is. I'm sure the silver colouring is no coincidence. However, it does have a fair few of those DR-550 sounds so it's OK, but why oh why do you turn out a device designed for live use and make it LESS intuitive to navigate and use? If I had to guess here, they turned this out on the cheap where they were using their old tech and didn't pay for any design as such.
It's definitely a backward step from say, the evolution of the DR-660 (I think it was) which was an expansion of the 550 with a reasonable reverb setup.
Still, at the end of the day, those sounds are still usable.
They are usable but you have to put a lot of effort in it to make it actually sound OK
Boss : Hey we have a line of drum machines that people have been using happily for years , how can we improve it
Customers : Improve the sounds , add memory , maybe with USB
Boss : How about instead we completely change the interface in a way that means days of menu diving and add seriously hokey basslines that sound terrible unless you're playing on a children's TV show .
I think they sold quite a lot of them, paradoxically to non-techie people (according to all the forum posts)
Yeah, the bass voices on this unit left a LOT to be desired. There was only one that I could put to use. Even that one had to be funneled to it's own track so I could process it further.
At 1st i thought it was about the overly enthousiastic Dr Mix getting worse in his enthousiasm 😏 Great video editing.
Dr. Mix is a great performer! Thanks!
That's... Coming up! Haha, Dr Mix is cool, sure he's got some crazy energy but he knows his stuff and man he can play!
@@RANDOMLOOPGENERATOR I didn't mean it in a bad way, but he can get exited over i dunno, a basic midi connector :)
@@XHALE303 it's cool man, I know exactly what you're saying, I haven't watched much of him since he started building the new studio, getting excited about the packaging of light fixtures is a step too far 😂
@@RANDOMLOOPGENERATOR DIdn't see him in a while either. I loved your ''scratching'' on the Novation. i've performed with Prodigy at the same raves early 90s, reminded me of that, nice & oldschool. Keep it up!
I have this unit for years and I revisit it from time to time. But it's so damn hard to operate that I usually give up quite quickly even though some beats and bass sounds are quite nice. I'm pretty convinced Michael Cretu used it on Sandra's european-hit "Heaven Can Wait" : it has the exact same drums and bass sound of this song right here. If this unit was more user-friendly, I would have had so much more fun with it. But alas... Boss should have asked a thing or two from Yamaha : their drum machines are so much easier to play with and their sequencers are always much more user friendly than this poor unit.
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Heck yes!!! Now you gotta do an episode on the Dr Samples (boss sp-202).
The Doctors are in!
Take two placebos and call me tomorrow!
Ah it was a tough vote between you and Look Mum No Computer, but I went with you in the end
Happy to hear that! Thank you!
@AudioPilz Please do a Better Gear review of the DR-5 Dr. Rhythm Machine. One of the coolest features is that the keypad is laid out like a guitar fretboard from nut to 5th fret. It's hella dated by today's standards but I got a lot of use out of it in the 90'sz and again during the last year when I used it in a DAW-less setup for a while.
Thanks for the input. It would be great for a future Ugly Gear series as well 😂
I had to pause and rewind several times to capture and google Rudy Giuliani picture. Memes and groove - that's why I choose you as the personality of the year. Meanwhile we have a streak of iOS synth apps from youtubers, so if you were making an official Bad Gear music app, what sounds it would produce?
Thanks! It would be strictly 4 bit, have an 80s Roland rack synth interface, run on 2013 Android exclusively and destroy your phone after use.
The same non-trasposable bass part is at the Boss DR-670 also! I take it as a practical joke on Bosses behalf! Where can i vote for you?
Maybe they were just trolling with that bass😅
"... some air to breathe'... after showing a a public restroom... you nasty, naughty boy. Now we can make the channel spin-off: Bad Air! ;)
Mal - aria ;)
Precise depiction of IR algorithm
Samples that try to sound somewhere vaguely "real" like these immediately make me want to find out what they sound like with a ridiculous load of distortion and bizarre fx.
And that guitar/organ jam immediately made me think of some of the maps from the old Sonic Adventure... which is odd 'cause I haven't thought about that game at all in *years*.
Funnily enough, the DR3 didn't take FX as well as I thought. The last jam is entirely based on one of the built-in styles. We just filled the gaps;)
Well deserved nomination x up with big guns! Hope you win dude
Thanks!
You have worked hard to earn that reward! Good luck!
Thanks!
I think it's about time you reviewed the Yamaha QY10 with its pre GM MIDI mapping.
I have one lying around but the learning curve is quite intimidating
@@AudioPilz th-cam.com/video/d5i66uPOe8g/w-d-xo.html
If this man managed it I'm sure you can. 👍🏻
You have way too much fun making these videos :)
Don't tell anyone;)
The opening shot was priceless 🤣. More, please.
Thanks! More to come!
I have to confess that as a Welsh man it pained me not to vote for our Queen Rachel K Collier, but I wouldn't even own a synth if it wasn't for AudioPilz, so I felt compelled. As for Mr Batt, well I don't want to start a beef in the comments section but I don't think I can see past the time he was taking a first look at the Volca NuBass and said to the Korg rep "But it's not a real vacuum tube is it?" the rep replied "of course" Nick then laid the immortal line "so, there's gas in there?". Without missing a beat the Korg Rep summoned every ounce of professionalism to say calmly and politely "...there's nothing in there..." - ok, we've all been there, but still... oh dear.
Let your conscience be your guide ;) There is no G.A.S. in there ;)
@@AudioPilz there may be a little G.A.S in the nubass since I ended up buying one :D not because I needed something to make acid basslines, but because I'm a sucker for anything with a vacuum tube
You are the best! Boss had some great products. Another item I want to see is the tiny handheld from Roland. The PM or PMA with numbers after it or something. It was a portable device to create midi tracks with built in sounds and a monochrome display (just like the Nintendo Game Boy) and it has a touch screen! All that back in 1996!!
Those were "great"! I'd love to find one of those!
@@AudioPilz I couldn’t agree more. They were also affordable. If I found one of these gems, I will buy it. Thanks 🙏 for your kind reply!
How do I change the brightness of the LCD screen?
This year you truly deserve to win this award. Community grows conservative, and needs something new, and your concept is amazing, funny, interesting and new. Like, in capital letters NEW and FRESH.
Thank you so much!
Favorite TH-cam channel.
Thank you!
I recently purchased one of these units of a guy went home to plug it in excitement an it hummed and smoked, I found out later he provided me with an AC adapter instead of a DC and never got a chance to play around with it. Was so sad I wish I used batteries instead. So tip for anyone out their make sure you have a DC adaptor not an AC/AC as it states in the manual it’s misleading and can damage the unit to no return. Given all the parts are smd it’s hard to get a spec or visual on the ID of components inside the unit.
It happens to the best!
Congratulations on your nomination! Well deserved!
Thanks!
Absolutely you deserve it. You put in the work congratulation
👏👍this channel is incredible for beat freaks & gear heads
Thanks!
why вердикт in cyrillic letters?
It's a Russian TV, I wanted to stay on brand ;)
the start button got me lol
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At first I had this mixed up with the Dr. Beat and was confused LOL
That last track was really neat! Now I want to hear more of yall's music from your band!
Thanks! Aren't those the Metronomes?
You are the only synths person I keep watching. You did so well mate.
Thank you so much!
What about mooger?; Is there a separate output for bass on Dr3?
No, I just panned the drums left and the bass right
good video, as always! Always amazed how you get results with a maschine like this.. bravo!
I have an old
"Yamaha FB-01" sitting at home because I talked to a pretty known techno producer who used it in one of this more known tracks.
I never figured out how to get a "evil and bleepy" techno sound out of it but maybe the FB-01 is a good device for BadGear because it is a programming nightmare (imo)..
Thanks! That one is a hot contestant!
@@AudioPilz Would love to see this one :)
Been waiting for the DR-3 :D knew it would come on this show
It had to come! Thanks for your patience!