Yamaha DD-10
Digital Drum Band Percussion (1988)

 

Cheap drum machine with pads - based on Low quality PCM samples, a simple sequencer and some basic Midi features.

DRUM MACHINE Main panel features 8 pads with primitive velocity system, 32 push buttons and a slider volume.
Internal stereo speakers (1,3W RMS).

Rear pannel terminal connectors:
- main signal out
- headphones
- Midi input
- Foot pedal input.
Orignally the DD-10 came with shoulder strap and a double foot pedal both included.

Power supply is a 9V external PSU DC positive in center (original model CA-1) or 6 x 1.5 V "C" batteries.

 

 

TECH main core based on HD6301. Custom Yamaha sound generator YM3302 - relative DAC is a YM3012 same found on Yamaha TX81Z

WAVETABLE internal ROM (still 3302) contains 26 PCM waves probably at 8 / 12 bits resolution sampled from acoustic drums.

Drum List: tom (x4), snare, rimshot, hihat (x2), cabasa, claves, agogo (x2), conga (x2), bongo (x2), crash, splash, synth tom (x2), synth snare, castanet, handclap, cowbell and kick drum. Hear all internal PCM

SEQUENCER basic real-time system feature with metronome and a kind of quantisizer.
Some sequencer functions: clear a note, assign a sound to any pads, roll option.

TIP: tempo can be internally set or defined using TAP button. Hear internal sequence

MIDI machine has only Midi Input to trigger sounds.
No special Control Change, just plain Note on/off.

MODIFICATION I don't think there are a lot of possible modification but bending:

LEFT - Typical mod are of course CIRCUIT BENDING - check out this vid

 

MEMORY:
- 98 ROM rhytm patterns
- 2 free patterns.

- LEFT- internal motherboard - click to enlarge picture -

 

RELATED FAMILY:

DD-SERIES : there are a lot of models from DD series. We won't focus too much on these, anyway we already made a review of an even cheaper model: - check out the YAMAHA DD-5.

 

VST PLUGIN / SAMPLED VERSION there are some free and commercial samples set:

bedroomproducers

FREE sample pack

AUDIO DEMO

	factory
	some rhythm patterns p1
	some rhythm patterns p2

VIDEO SELECTION Demo demo 2 demo3