The DDD-1 is a digital programmable drum machine from Korg from the mid-eighties. It offers 18 electronic drum sounds with a sound that is typical of this era. Basic kicks, snares, toms, rimshot, closed hi hats, open hi hats, ride, crash, claps, cowbell, tambourine and cabasa. Additional sounds can be added using ROM cards. The DDD-1 also featured a sampling option allowing very short and limited sampling for that extra edge of unique sounds to add to your drumkit. Drum sounds can be triggered from the 14 assignable velocity sensitive trigger-pads and there are some individual outputs.

Programming the DDD-1 is fairly straight forward. Memory holds 100 patterns which can be linked or chained to form songs, for which there are 10 song memory locations. The drum sounds have editable parameters such as decay and tuning. For added groove in your patterns there are Roll and Flam effects. The DDD-1 is equipped with full MIDI implementation making it an easy drum machine to use in any MIDI studio. If you like typical eighties drum sounds, the DDD-1 would be a formidable alternative to other similar drum machines like the Roland TR-707 and offers more professional features than its counterpart, the DDD-5.

Beeb

January 31, 2013 @ 12:30 am

What a wonderful drum machine. I bought one years ago when they were first released. Did a lot of recording with it on an old 4 track Yamaha cassette recorder. I even used it to dump drum patterns into a Peavy DPM3 through Midi, thereby enabling the Peavy to use all the DDD1 drum patterns for live playing. Those were the days when most of this technology was in it's infancy. Wow, things have changed so much since then. But it was all still kick-butt gear back then. So much fun!

db

January 17, 2013 @ 2:50 pm

Hi,
I recently bought an old Korg DDD1 drum machine.
Does anyone know how to get it to run in sync with Logic?
Cheers,
DB

BeN-HuR

January 16, 2013 @ 6:46 am

The Clap sounds really nice on the high frequencies and tweaking the pitch on layers can get you right back to the disco. Recording with it is nice and easy + Adding some heavy effects on it will assure you unique grooves.

Bangthebox Paris

September 11, 2012 @ 10:19 am

This is a really underrated drumbox. To be considered as a Tr707 alternative, the kick is good but the Snare sounds better ! Not to mention the toms also, with the decay and tuning, this korg DDD1 is more than an outsider.

Alex Crowley

July 16, 2012 @ 8:17 pm

as far as the sounds they [beep] this was my go to box since day one on the market and now I use it to work Damage, Komplete 8,... and control Acid 7 Do Not make light of this machine !!its a far better controler then Mashine !!!

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