YAMAHA ED10
Electronic Drum

About

YAMAHA ED10 Electronic Drum is a electronic drum pad with an analog synthesizer engine.


YAMAHA ED10 (1987)

Overview

1OSC + 1Noise + 1 'Subsonic' OSC + 1Filter + 1ENV synthesizer.
The 'Subsonic' oscillator seems to be used as a ring modulating oscillator to add some sound character.
The synth engine seems to be analog.
All the parameters are edited with knobs - pitch, sub-sonic pitch, filter, noise, decay, bend, click, filter-env-mod, volume.
The envelope is velocity sensitive.
One trigger input - it can be used as a drum synth without hitting the pad.

Sound Examples

Here are .mp3 sound examples of ed10. The demos are recorded without external effects and overdub. I sequenced KORG NS5R and put its sound into ED10's trigger input.

16 beat #1 (112KB)
16 beat #2 (112KB)
Tweak (337KB)

Examples below are made with Native Instruments Reaktor 2.3.1. I made a simple drum playbacker, and played 5 ED10 samples. Due to my Mac's CPU power limitation (and I also used some tempo change), the timing got unstable.

ED10 sequenced with Reaktor #1 (354KB)
ED10 sequenced with Reaktor #2 (258KB)
ED10 sequenced with Reaktor #3 (197KB)
ED10 sequenced with Reaktor #4 (194KB)


Reaktor 2.3.1 drum playbacker

Related Models

ED10 was made as part of a drum kit, and there were some optional racks and mixers to make a kit. There was also a white color version of ED10.


ED10 options


ED10 white version

ED10 seems to be YAMAHA's answer to Simmons and other electronic drums. The difference is that ED10 was much cheaper.
YAMAHA PTX8 is itself a PCM drum synthesizer. ED10 can be used as a trigger pad for PTX8. The model without synth engine that only translates the drum trigger to MIDI is called PTT8.


YAMAHA PTX8 (1987)

 

Links

. YAMAHA Manual Library .pdf files




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4. 17. 2007