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The working title for the DFAM was "Eight? Oh Eight."

Putting a Moog here? You are a brave man.

"Welcome to Bad Gear where I show haters how to actually use the worlds most hated audio tools" - BTW Jam 2 is easily one of my favourites ever. Damn good show man I love it!

dude, I know this channel is comedic/informative stuff but your end jams are so so so sick. The visuals as well. I would honestly love a serious video about your production process.

That Will Smith ADRS meme killed me lol. Jokes aside, I own this little monster and I have to say the sound could only be described as delightful. Your videos are hilarious and instructive, love it !

Consistently killing it with these videos in terms of production value, education, meme factor, but also bringing those jams. Absolute legend.

The limitations seem worth the sound quality, though lack of midi is baffling..Thanks for the great tunes you pump out and keeping a smile on my face.

I can't have been more entertained and inspired. I have barely scratched the surface of my DFAM, per this video. Well done!!

No doubt the DFAM is limited, but it sounds *so* good when it's in its wheelhouse. With a little extra modular gear you can break out of the 8 step sequencer, so it feels like the DFAM is really just meant to be paired with the other Moog semi-modular modules.

You ALWAYS get the most out of the gear you use to create, demonstrate and sometimes berate 💕 more modular plz 💕

I have been watching your content for a while now and without a doubt, you have the best comical-reference edit chops in the land. Love you man!

This video again is fully stuffed with greatness. Aproximately every 5 seconds a funny movie reference and also a very respectful review for a quite limited drummachine after all. I bow for u and look forward to the next one. Cheers 🍻

Thank you for bringing Worf into a video about a Moog product. It was about time somebody did that.

You are a great composer-synthesist . The demos are outstanding

I don't know how you put out a funny, entertaining, and informative video every week on the dot but I definitely appreciate it.

As always, your audio and video production skills are ticking all the boxes. Thanks for another excellent video! On a side note, every time I see the TB-3 in one of your vids I loving look over at my TB-3 patiently waiting in its box the last few years and say "Someday soon, buddy, someday".

Your vids literally never fail to crack me up. "(Worf) Son of Mogh!)" I have the SubHarmonicon and largely feel the same way about it as your review about the DFAM. These are amazing as production/sound design tools but too tweaky and single purpose for live use. Great way to get that hard to duplicate Moog sound into a production though!

The DFAM is meant to be teamed up with the Mother-32 which indeed has MIDI. Love the second jam Pilz, you're killing it!!

I gotta tell ya, first I started watching your vids for the tech gear nerd part, but now I'm just waiting for your jams to start kicking in. You are talented, man.

your editing is always very fun

My favourite synth! 😭 Hit the nail on the head about how it highlights the sound shortcomings of lesser kit when you use it alongside a DFAM

Gear aside, that breakbeat jam stripped a couple of decades off my age and now has me digging in my old bins that still have 2005 Burning Man dust on them. ❤️

The actual best channel! Love it!

Absolutely killed this one! Intro was unreal I watched it like five time your timing is nicht von dieser welt! 👾

Whoa..major props on all of the pop culture references! Sooo good. Really good episode sir! I am going to predict that TB3 sales are going to go up because it is your main star on this channel lately. :)

Anyone else give these 2 full views? One to actually hear about a synth, the 2nd to pause regularly and enjoy all the memes! The 3 at "bleeps, bloops..." were particularly funny

the best part of every friday is watching the new bad gear episode! I would love to see you take on a Roland SH32 synth. I bought one as my first step into hardware synths many years ago. I never really understood what was happening and how I got it to make all the weird and amazing sounds that came out of it. it was a totally different experience from the 2. gen electribes I wqas used to . I remember the manual was a classic Roland manual. It just made everything more confusing for a young synth novice in his late teens. All the weed i was smoking back then probably didn't help either. After following your channel for some months now and seing you take on several pieces of the good old gear me and my mates went through in our search for fun and good gear to play with, has really been a fun trip down memory lane for me. You inspired me to go out and buy a used Korg KP3 again, just because it's a really fun sampler to use. I'm looking forward to keep on following you further down the rabbit hole of "bad gear", and see how you make all the things "shine" just as bright as a piece of late 90's/early 00's piece of gear possibly can. Thank you for all the work you put into making theese videos. they really do brighten up my fridays. have a nice weekend. Already looking forward to the next one.

For a home tweaker it’s a blast and was one of my First pieces. I don’t know how I missed his videos but it’s fantastic. Great work all-around great sounds

Nice to hear making sounds on a really nice instrument. You need a BadAss Gear channel!🙏🏻❤️

Probably my favourite synth of all time this bastard

Amazing demo songs, you give great reviews and also rock!

This is one of the most inspiring videos i have ever came across

▲ i'm still not over the fact that my beloved model:cycles is bad gear, even though it definitely is. this episode, however, is the first one that doesn't want me to instantly buy the featured gear (dfam). and it's a moog, bobdammit!

Nice work @AudioPilz , as always, and your tunes are just always good, and an awful lot better than some stuff that I've heard released... Man, if you ever do a gig, or do gig, let me know!

You videos are top notch, as always. Thanks for another wonderful production.

Bold move to feature anything with Moog written on it on a Bad Gear episode. You’re a true hero.

Another fantastic video! No piece of gear is bad in your hands 😎👌

That monophonic jam did something to *my* body chemistry! Dooooooope! 👏👏👏

Thanks brother. I'm a massive DFAM fan, it's comes alive when you use the patch bay functionality with other desktop or modular gear. No limitations

Whoa, what a pair of delicious tracks you pulled on this one...

One of my all time favourite renditions of the intro song!

Man you can program. That breakbeat blew me away. You are becoming my product reviewer. I was never aware of it's limitation. In other words it's an expensive limited cool gadget with great sounds.

Your original pieces are always very well done! 🤔😉

Ok to say I more impressed with the tunes you can get out the gear, than the gear itself? Have a great weekend!

I love my DFAM. A very unique instrument that serendipitously throws out the most lovely gnarly techno sounds...

I've got the whole series and really like them, but as you said, the fact that it's only 8 steps really limits what you can do with the DFAM. Regardless, some instruments are cool in that they force you to work within their limitations, and this is one of them. Thanks for all the informative and entertaining videos!

bruh your final jams always sound so epic

That end jam was really really fucking good man, rarely do i ever comment but that needs a full track imo. GG

So... it's a drummer that: - has only one limb (and it doesn't appear to be neither arm nor leg), - hits *exactly* on time -- but it's not *your* time, - has memory capacity to strike that drum exactly eight times before looping right back, but... ... can strike these drums in really incredible ways that produce amazing sound as long you spend time to tell it *exactly* how to do it before each performance. So yeah, if it were a person, I'd be wondering if their parents were vacationing in Pripyat in late April 1986.

Bass dropping with increasing resonance - the classical behavior of an uncompensated filter. I’d love the DFAM and think it shines most in combination with the mother32 and/or subharmonicon.

Dude! I did not expect to see a clip from the anime "Beyond the Boundary"! (The girl in the red glasses) You are my hero!

Oooo excited to see a Moog review!

I’ve been tempted by the DFAM in the past, and I’m sure I’d have fun with it. It’s one of those things that’s definitely not “bad”, but has a very specific use case that doesn’t work for most people’s needs, and in that case it really shines, as your demos show. The one thing that seems a major omission is not MIDI, since it’s mostly designed for live tweaking, but a reset/sync input. In the end, I found I could do most of what I liked about it with a couple of modules I already had, so I couldn’t justify the space, but it still has a unique sound and workflow that sets it apart.

I absolutely love my DFAM. Can't wait to pair it with a Behringer Edge. The DFAM really shines when you incorporate it with Eurorack.

Final jam superb as always!

Holy Moly best episode yet! (i have detailed stats) Those jams were flippin' great!

The DFAM is an absolute industrial monster sound wise but i don't have one. So, I fake the DFAM sound on iOS with Ruismaker Noir and a little bit of distortion. The built in sequencer is extremely similar with pitch and velocity adjustable per note, but it's expandable beyond 8 notes and supports odd signatures. Just gotta add that distortion so the fm sounds more analogy 😉

Florian puts a lot of good gear in Bad Gear at this point that it didn't even cross my mind that a Moog feature this episode could be some sort of April Fools joke

i love my both fantastic korg er1 - i need noooo mooog equipment . thank you for the upload . i hope you have a beautiful weekend - best greetz from austria !

Thanks for the extract from La Grand Bouffe. For that, you definitely deserve a comment!

I'm loving the amount of meme action going on here, its ramped up for this episode 💞

I love the DFAM. Most of the time I find myself sampling individual drum sounds created with it and sequence them in an Ableton Live drum rack. Or I’ll create a DFAM sequence with some modulation, record a few bars of that and use it as a looping clip in Live.

Pilz... as usual, MASTER of visual references... all hail!

"Time to push it a little further in this deep'n'dubby, analog sound fx, Vienna 16, down- and/or breakbeat" Never in my life have I needed something so much and never known until I received it! Awesome episode! Greetings from Vienna 02 :)

That intro sounds great with this though. Definitely a different but good (to me) vibe

You know your audience too well. That Edge reference got me...that was really nice.

The jams are amazing as usual

Man , would love to see you teaching mixing and production.. Great review, as usual.

LOL, I made it to the end. Yes, I have one. 😂 Personally, the DFAM is my all time favorite piece of kit I have ever owned. I mostly use it with my Beatstep Pro, TR-8, and some other synth. The DFAM always makes me smile.

My favorite gear of all time. In fact, it’s what got me back into my synths that were collecting dust. Don’t make the mistake of thinking of it as a drum machine just because it says drummer in the name… it is not. It is an expressive percussion as it says in the manual. It is a percussion instrument and thus lets you express yourself. Best to couple with a drum machine and you can spend hours on it running the same drum sequence in the background 😂

You’re the best ! I stayed until the last ne not because of Moog, but because your videos are so entertaining.

Dude. Do you know how hard it is to get me to laugh aloud, alone in my studio? Your meme game is exquisite.

Definitely type A here. The DFAM was the first (semi-) modular piece of gear that I kept. I read a lot in the comments that the Mother32 is THE companion for the DFAM. Even though that is kind of true and is what the manufacturer intended, my recommendation for the best partner would be the Elektron Oktatrack (with a Korg sq10 for sync and quantized melodies). It’s an instant fun combination especially if you’re into harsher types of techno. Just dial in an awesome patch/loop on the dfam, bounce it into the octa, remove all cables on the dfam, rinse and repeat until you have a solid base for a new track, chop the loops and rearrange them on the octa… super small fun and travel setup :)

It’s really complementary with a Mother-32, the M32 provides MIDI, a sequencer and an LFO whereas the DFAM provides tonal variety and 2 lanes of steppable CV to add expression to the sequences.

The second jam was super. Just throwing this out there, how about an episode on the Korg Drum, doesn't blow the budget and as quirky as the DFAM albeit in a different kind of way. Thanks for keeping the episodes regular. It's always a perfect end to my working week, thank you.

This whole channel is like my guitar channels coming off acid while doing a bump and then dropping more acid. I recognize the canyon pedal.

I am 100% in favor of implementing the Vince McMahon Scale for measuring bass cut with resonance increase.

I loved the definition for "eurorack" :D Speaking of which: You haven't talked a lot about the many patch points.. Are these only useful in combination with other modular gear or can you patch crazy stuff on the DFAM alone?

The brown note meme killed me. Literally had to goto the porcelain throne after you played that jam set.

Enjoyed this. Great jams

I mean, it's an awesome review. It sounds spectacular but it's more of a sound source than an instrument itself and it wasn't until I saw this review that I understood it's purpouse. Thank you ✌️😁

I think DFAM is great instrument! And yes, limitations, especially nowadays can do a great job for a musician.

Most beautiful intro tune yet!

Cool beats! 5:02 reminds me of Vitalic! Just want to add, you're a fantastic producer!

I'd pay good money for a full album of jams like that Finale tune... Solid!!

He's so freaking good at using all this "Bad Gear" and points out all the yumminess of each synth he "trashes" ..that I'm beginning to think this channel solely exists to curb his own GAS

That last beat was a banger to be fair! Might have to become a Patreon supporter just to hear it properly.

Thanks for making this

Herr Pilz, i feel personally attacked by you picking gear straight from my synth collection history

I (and i'm sure others) would appreciate it if one of these days you could show a step by stop of your finale song productions. They always come out super smooth. Unless you don't want to reveal your secret sauce.

Hyped for the Berhrbie. The 'finale' jam was another absolute banger.

the intro tune was gorgeous ! the last jam as well !!

To me, having the "no menu" analog knobs right there is perfection of the highest order. While I like keyboard combos as much as the next computer user: NO, your UI is not intuitive enough to have SHIFT on your Synth!

Probably one of my favorite pieces of gear I own, but it’s totally limited. Needless to say it’s amazing sounding for some live jams and sampling. The Edge is gonna be fun to test drive and hear the comparisons. Glad I already purchased it and recovered from the financial setback of this purchase a few years back. Always wanted two of them at the same time, but the Subharmonicon ended that desire. I have yet to take the plunge on the Subharm!

4:32 It's a jooly good day for a mooging haha....first time the Intro Song sounds really nice 🍿& it can make popcorn too...greetings from Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦

Excellent episode! I love the DFAM so much, I have two!

I owned a DFAM for a while but felt like I hit the bottom of the well in terms of sounds rather quickly. That combined with it being super fiddly in a non-modular setup due to the lack of MIDI led me to offload it for roughly what I paid. I'm curious to see how the Edge comes out since it's cheap enough for the limited palette and seemingly fixes my issues with the DFAM's connectivity.

I love messing around with my DFAM because I like the Moog sound. But it's not for everyone and you can pick up drum machines that do much more with MIDI for cheaper.

Great video again. I love my DFAM - part of the excitement for me is getting into a jam and forgetting which knob will make it go sci-fi weirdness over amazing face melt. I do usually make a mistake and make it go all forbidden planet soundtrack.