Bad Gear - IK Multimedia UNO Drum - Buggy like Software??? 

The soul of a Roland, the looks of a central heating thermostat programing panel

AudioPilz-the least sponsorable synthtuber 😂 Lovin’ the series!

It ain't weekend until I hear "Welcome to Bad Gear!"

The ridiculously over-specific genre names for the final jams are my jam.

Just got home from work, wife cooked my dinner and now watching my favourite RU-vidr... Life don't get any better 😁

I have that feeling that it doesn't matter what you touch, it would come out as gold.

Damn man, some of your jams in this series are album worthy! Such effortless and honest sound.

You should do a Bad Gear episode on the Sony Ericsson's Music DJ program included on their mobile phones.

When most of your gear shows up on Bad Gear....You are a Bad Gear Junkie!!! Love those gear jams!!!Makes my day every time!

"T-Racks brought me to loudness war" - Hell yeah! Me too! ;D

We finally found one that's not ticking all the boxes! We're at peak bad gear (until next episode).

I quite like the UNO Drum. No issues with mine. I use it over my Behringer RD-8. I bought a longer USB cable for my Uno Drum and it works great. I got an awesome price on a new one last year.. I also plug it into a phone wall adapter to power and found it helps get rid of noise. I dig it. It's a fun little drum machine. I haven't had an issue with finger drumming on it. The Modal Skulpt feels even more like a cheap toy. It was so bad, I returned the Skulpt as it also relies too heavily on its app.

I literally forgot it was Friday until I saw this.

Haha, I love Stimming's reviews. He does NOT hold back!

Just found this channel a couple weeks ago and i love this dude! Seems like he has some really good advice and opinions on gear and what not! I'm trying to get into this crazy world of electronic music (i've played mainly guitar my whole life) And i got to say you've been a big help in figuring out a lot of gear and stuff! Keep it up man you rock!

It's been a year since I subscribed to this exciting channel. Thank you for tons of fun and information!

I see you still have the basssstation rack, that and the drumstation are underrrrrated. Not gonna lie, I like the snare on the Uno drum, better than a lot of pricier drum machines **cough drumbrute cough**

Bad Gear (Fri)Day :) Somehow I feel like a conditioned Dog. If you ever Release an Episode on a tuesday, I would not Go to Work the next day 🤪 Great Video, as Always.

Do you edit these yourself? It's some fantastic music video editing.

that meme at @3:08 hurt me viscerally - as a guitar pedal using, minilogue owning volca keys lover ....... i should really figure out how to go beyond the presets on my FM.....

You're one of the few channels that actually get me excited for a new video drop. Keep it up man. Im actually trying to think of bad gear material but so far the only thing I've come up with that could fill "the screen" easily(and you havent reviewed) is the et2/ets2. Also Im still a big fan of the "rad gear" idea where you review your favorite pieces of gear or like really good but obscure stuff or something? Shit i'd probably watch you review a toaster to be honest.

This show beats anything on TV in the U.S. right now.

0:50 - dude, you crack me up! I cannot so much as watch your videos without having to re-wind because I missed the last 20 seconds ROFLing. You just made my day. Again. Keep on rockin'!

Phil Towle's sweater collection is what got me through the loudness wars.

Uno Drum has the best midi support of all the budget drum machines available today.

They made a “Pro” grown up version of the UNO synth.... I’d love to see a Drum Uno with pads and multi outs. Or a unobrute.

Thing's good at being thrown though. Some weight with the batteries in it and a nice frisbyish shape.

This series of bad gear further proves the point that often the magic the people have is what matters, you could still manage to do cool stuff with bad gear.

I’ll never buy an instrument with buttons like that.

The memes as always spot on and hilarious 🤣👍🏻

User Sample Pack functionality for the Uno Drum has been cracked! Previously the IK Multimedia Legacy packs were all you could swap into the machine, but this (admittedly early) proof of concept shows that custom samples are indeed possible. Possible candidate for a future Better Gear entry? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YkdraaaeCWo.html Details on how it was done are in the video description.

This amazing show keeps getting better every time! I really liked that "it's a cold, cold world" tune! How an episode about the E-mu Orbit?

I could say I'm just here for the jam, but badgear is good on so many other levels as well , Enjoyable , and informative , Just bit addictive . Another topnotch episode . 😊

dude, I'm a video editor, and know you are putting a lot of hours into these vids. I tip my hat to your killer vids

Oh man, that photo-house track was excellent! thanks for the video!

Actually laughed at the Stimming comment and I really like him and respect his artwork. But damn! That’s some funny Austrian on German dig humour there! 🤣

You sir are clearly the Genre MASTER. Attention all musicians on the bleeding edge: When you develop your own brand new genre of music, come by here and let AudioPilz name it for you :D

I had one. Liked the sounds, but the output jacks had insane amounts of noise. And since an unbalanced cable is not really an option here, I traded it towards a Roland TR-6S.

love the ode to jamie principle and frankie knuckles "baby wants to ride" lead at 7.41... A classic chicago house Trax

You deliver, as always. I came here for the snark and witty editing, but I stayed for the fucking great techno. Nice, man.

Thank you for this friday-upbeat critical but fair videos!!! Also i liked a lot the slightly over modernized it's cold outside it's getting hot in here underground proto-house!

Have we started a petition for the Unobrute yet?

Gotta say nice touch with the Maserati hearse.. i am rebuilding a '46 meteor currently and thought i was tripping for a second there when it flashed by. ALSO, Great pick for a subject... always wondered about the unos.... Luck!

Fantastic video as always. Just want to also give you props for the RNC compressor- amazing tool for 20 years!

Oh I see this thing every once in a while when contemplating what I will give Thomann my money for next. edit: Damn, your meme game is on point this week

I love my Uno Drum now. Up until around 3 months ago it was so disappointing. I complained so many times but got the same answer. Finally a firmware update fixed everything. I honestly think it's the best and most realistic drum machine I own.

Great work as always! I love how you didn’t shy away from the weirder aspects of the machine!

Nice episode. Been wanting to buy one of these for quite awhile. This actually makes me want one more now...

Crippleware is my new favourite word.

I absolutely love your videos, they always puts me in a good mood after watching 🙂

Good thing you showed us the cowbell in the digital section. It would be real bad gear without a cowbell.

I love the simple preset pattern and drum set switching

They go for about 100 international beer tokens in the UK. Still overpriced, compared to the humble Volca equivalent. The Drumbrutes have the advantage of individual outs, even if they are on mini monojacks, which allows some external processing to oomph up the sounds. The gold standard for teenytiny analogue drumboxes with wonky operating systems is the MFB503, which knocks the UNO out of the park.

So many scalding hot burns dropped in one video. It's a masterpiece!🔥

Yet again... Bad Gear covers a device I was looking at in the past 6 months. I think this happens as I regularly search for gear under £200. I got my fully expanded Roland TR8 for £220. It has many of those classic Roland drum sounds and I can hook it up to an old EMU ESi sampler too... kind of makes €180 for the IK look like a meh deal. Also... those pads just put me in mind of loads of 80s and early 90s electronic toys. But it does sound the IK can polish up well in the hands of someone like you. Keep up the great work!

Peter snapping on people publically is very funny

3:08 Yes I paused the video to read that meme.

Oooooh, even snuck in a furry meme pic, niiiiice. ^_^

Great video as usual Pilz. IK do make some lovely products: I think Sampletank is quite special, but they've become a little too bloated as a company. The Walmart of audio. Even Waves is like: woah there buddy! I tried TRacks back in the day, and never 'glued' with it, and even had the ARC room correction software. Talk about buyer's remorse. But I don't want to be all negative. Like Arturia, I think IK will learn from their experiments and move on to more successful instruments.

Love your reviews! Always entertaining! Not a piece of bad gear, but I just got the Polyend Tracker and I will be trying to wrap my head around it for some time to come. The only complaint I have is the manual in by PDF only. Cheers!

I think its harder to define a new music genre/category every week than to make a new video every week...👍 ♥️

I'm so happy that I have found this chanell. Keep up the great work Florian! And thank you. :)

Danke! Hast mich davor bewahrt dieses Teil zu kaufen (hatte echt mal mit dem Gedanken gespielt, quasi kleine Batterie-drum-machine für die Schublade im Büro 😅). Apropos, wir 2 haben uns mal das Büro geteilt Flo und uns sogar mal kurz über Sampler unterhalten, lg Rob

Can't fault the drum sounds but it looks like something that should be controlling my Bosch boiler.. :-P

Slightly Over-Modernized It's Cold Outside It's Getting Hot In Here Underground Proto-House is good, but it won't change my mind about the UNO Drum. i like the Drum Brute more because of Rebecca from Arturia :P

This machines looks both really limited and promising at the same time; I hope there's a future for it in the better gear segments... but I doubt it. It's weird in a way that I like with what seems to be strong guts. Amazing work as usual, love your suff!

I have one of these. Let me start by saying that I'm just getting into music production. This is technically my second drum machine. I bought a Korg Volca Drum first. I love it but it is tough for someone just starting out to use effectively (at least for me it was, anyway). So, I decided to get this. I really like it, for the most part. That said, I am on my second one. The first one had to be returned due to some of the buttons becoming completely unresponsive. With the latest firmware update I am experiencing very little bugs. The only bugs I experience are with some of the step buttons becoming unresponsive. It happens when I go to swipe all the steps quickly to lay down 16 claps, for instance, in a row. As a result, I've stopped swiping like that and now push each step button in a normal fashion. As I said, I'm new to this stuff. I'm satisfied with it, overall.

Sounds pretty good, has a terrible interface. I had the unosynth but it ended up shorting out randomly.

Haha I suppose those sounds would have gone down well in the Ha¢ienda 😁

Still waiting for a Roland SH-32 video! Feature-wise it's incredible but there's just something about its sound that seems ripe for a Bad Gear feature.

Ooh are we playing name that super obscure techno melody? @6:47 Binky Boy by Unit Moebius off of Status.

My second favorite drum machine after the rhythm wolf. I like it better than the drumbrute impact.

UNOBrute! Awesome idea!

The Uno Drum is a nice drum machine, I get mine for $150 and I love it specially with the drum anthology library, you got many drum machines in one also somebody found a way to load your own samples on it and that opens a lot of possibilities, the only thing that I complain it's a stereo output (L, R) with a panning function, other than that is really good. PS: I got the Uno Synth too.

The 'OddBallJam' tasted more like digital caviar.. Delicious..

One of the best sounding drum machines in recent years! Have wanted one since the Stimming review - everybody seems to judge this with their eyes instead of their ears. Maybe time to score one before the price starts climbing...

Wow, you’ve upped your game again, you didn’t phone this in. Almost stutter edited. Nice one.

Congrats once again for giving a fair chance to this machine although it might not actually deserve it. I hope some day Arturia and IK join forces to design your great idea about the Uno-Brute ;)

Love the "Nordic temper" supercut

I love mine, no probs.

As far-fetched as it might seem, Slightly Over-Modernized It's Cold Outside It's Getting Hot In Here Underground Proto-House made me think of Jamie Principle's Baby Wants To Ride

Do you have a SoundCloud or anything where we can listen to these jams in full? They’re always spot on.

I love Stimming‘s reviews which are really fair and honest (and of course his music) ... and I remember his review of the Uno Drum... that was total destruction... and well deserved!

the one dislike is from the one person who received it as an xmas gift and actually liked it lolol

Let's be honest. You just figured out a way to monetize your Gear Acquisition Syndrome..... and we ain't even mad.

7:40 You thought I wouldn’t notice but I know thats “baby wants to ride”

I still use T-Racks on everything! A creature of habit. Looks like the controller for my central heating, but you pulled some tasty jams out of it.

The sound this machine puts out is amazing!!! Punchy and warmy. I would never ever imagine that, it seems pure crap at the first look

UnoBrut - this is what we need

i love all those memes you edit in

Its a giant PITA but I definitely recommend picking one up for like a 100 bucks if you can, under two conditions. (1) You use external midi control and sequencing. The thing has an astonishingly complete midi implementation and its even in the manual (I'm looking at you AKAI). Midi receive includes roll and stutter effects, the tweakable paramters of the different sounds as well as switching between the different sounds per slot included in a kit (5 sounds per slot), as well as changing kits. (2) You use use a ground isolator usb thingie. arturia sends some with their beatstep pro. (alternatively using batteries might also work and they recommend using a balanced TRS into a mixer while not pluggin in the ground part in the manual -- which sounds like a joke). Once you resolve all the BS of this thing, its pretty fun. And if you're on the fence about a dedicated analog drumbox, this is a good unit to give it a shot.

Yoo imma be juvenile and say "first"

+1 UnoBrute

i really eeally really love the genres of the last jam 😅😅 its cold outside and getting got in here

“Unobrute” 😂. Excellent video! And i’m totally with you about their agressive policies about personal data. The stuff I had to make to get a set a free IK plugins (I finally never use... 🙄)

lmao i just thought of buying one as this video came out

The sounds are total dope! That a special kind of musical frustration when a machine sounds astonishingly good but it makes difficult to reach the right things in the right moment... I feel it like for my QY70... Factory form, user interface, playability are primordial in music gear, the ultimate psychological health safety forethoughts!

I sequence the Uno Drum with the Drum Brute. Not quite best of both worlds but I really enjoy the drum brute sequencer.

The solution for this device is the same as what I found was the solution for the DrumBrute: Sample it in detail and then load those hits into your Digitakt or Roland TR8s (You should review that one). I don't know why, but I use the DrumBrute kits I made in those devices more than I ever used the DrumBrute (which is one of only two pieces of gear I owned for less than 1 month before selling it).

Is the Korg Monotron Duo too cheap and simple to qualify for Bad Gear? I think it's far and away the worst of the three Monotrons. It is the only one with a quantised keyboard, but given how small the Monotrons are there's not much point in trying to play it that way, and replacing the LFO with a second oscillator and a janky cross mod knob just makes it harder to get any kind of pleasant tone out of it. It kind of comes to life if you plug it into an effect, but one of the best effects to plug it into is it's sidekick the Monotron Delay, which has one oscillator, no quantising, and a one knob filter, but has a much larger pitch range on it's ribbon and the built in delay, so it's way easier to get nice sound effects out of, which I think is the point of the Monotrons.