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In 1990 I was given a Korg DDM-110 drum machine as a birthday present. At the time it was probably one of the cheapest programmable drum machines you could buy that had its own digitised drum samples. It quickly became handy when recording my own music (on to a 1970's Teac four track reel-to-reel) as it was very simple to program.



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Specifications

The DDM-110 can hold up to 32 drum patterns (16 patterns with 32 steps and 16 patterns with 16 steps), and 6 songs holding up to 385 bars for the first song or 200 bars for the other 5. The samples themselves are mono and sound like they were recorded at 22 KHz. Unfortunately they don't sound terribly much like a real drum kit but that didn't bother me too much at the time. The DDM-110 could run off 6 AA 1.5V DC batteries (which mostly served as a memory backup) or a 9V DC AC adapter (the one I have was made by Korg). According to the manual there was apparently some way of backing-up the songs and patterns to cassette, but I could never get that to work reliably.

Downloads

Below is a Sound Blaster Live-compatible SoundFont of the Korg DDM-110 available for download. You'll need sfArk to decompress it.

korg-ddm-110.sfArk (117 KB)

Owner's Manual

You can download the Korg DDM-110 Owner's Manual (55 pages) using the links below:

korg-ddm-110-manual.pdf (4.5 MB, PDF format, use Adobe Acrobat Reader)

korg-ddm-110-manual.zip (4.4 MB, GIF format, zipped)

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