Yamaha Finger Drum Pad "FGDP series" - Product Walkthrough

The machinegun effect on the snare is unforgivable. The lack of some kind of round robin - at least for the snare - boggles the mind. Common, Yamaha, it´s 2023 already!

😮🎉damn i need this ❤

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I like it. I'd like to see just a midi controller version for less than 100€

When will it be available in Canada?

How do you turn into MIDI mode so you can use it with software like ableton Or maschine, or mpc ?

Where's the MIDI connectors?? 😮 unuseable and worthless without midi.

Can you play the sound backward?

Please start a tutorial series for learning to drum like a pro. Not just the basic patterns but the advanced stuff.

is this the tech deck of drums?

I could see this as a live jam instrument, but not for recording. MPC and Maschine are far more ideal for profession recording settings

It is 2023. Why would this not have USB C?

No MIDI??? I went from very excited to completely bummed and deflated - no MIDI is a show stopper for me.

So ....run of a battery n go out n chill in a park somewhere with headphones on ????

Yamaha you missed out! You should have made the left/right and +/- buttons a knob encoder so we can get creative with the effects on the go! I bet the design and sleekness was more priority.

Micro USB.

Mini audio out means an automatic no go for me. Those tiny jacks are a built-in early failure guarantee. One knock the wrong way and you are stuck with a lemon.

Oh no!… back to the Stone Age, with buttons , nested menus, and tiny a LCD screen. Where is the accompanying app, like you do for Pianos and synths (Easy Piano, Montage editor etc.). If you could connect your phone/tablet and see it in a GUI, do the configuration etc, and save to the device from the app (and/or save configurations to the app) it would be a winner. As it stands, I get chills thinking about the time I’ve wasted on LCD nested menus through the years! So tedious!! 😢.
You’re wasting an opportunity to set the standard high Yamaha. 😞
But great pad layout, inbuilt sounds, and portability (built in amp and speaker, battery powered). 👍😊

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How many samples are there in the presets, ie. the Maple kit, how many snare hits compromise the snare pad? When I upload my own samples, can I velocity multisample a pad and/or round-robin? When I hit the larger pads, is it correct that I need to release to re-hit (ie. doing a fast double-bass with the thumbs, need to ensure right thumb has released before left hits, vs. having independent L/R thumb pads... again, this is where you'd want multisample support to not keep triggering one sample)? I am uncertain if the left/right sides of the large pads are independent. Very interested, but I definitely have some questions.

Cher pour ce que c' est. On peut quantizer ? rien est expliqué....déçu

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Is that a mini USB port?? Midi out would have been nice...

I would gladly have paid an extra $20 to have a screen on the small one, I don't understand this design choice.

That micro USB is disgusting.

Roland handsoniq is too much sucess mostly in india..with lots of verites of options, -Asaian tradtional tones,sampler,D beam,sequencer..etc

Brilliant product

Can velocity be assigned to other parameters than volume? EG: Tuning, filter cutoff, reverb?

this instrument too worth to market in indonesia, because in indonesia play dangdut music with hand instrument, and muslim sholawat music can wonderfull with this instrument

Missed opportunities....i was hoping to see a genos stuffed inna drum machine.....yamaha mv8800 lol😊

No midi out is an absolutely HUGE oversight. Also, I assume there are adjustments for left-handed people, for things like that ride.

Could have its uses. Like the pad arrangement. Dont like the USB-B.

The rv series is still gooder🥱🥱🥱

jokes aside this looks very cool and compact

Awesome 🤙

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The big good news is that now a drummer can jam everywhere with his band because a drums in a bag … very difficult — Ok miss some Midi output too and really hope that I will can to play it with MPC Beats, directly on a MPC One and a Bass or guitar speakers. Impatient to try it but honestly the V2 will be more perfect (Midi, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, …) — Best

If Yamaha were geniuses, this video would have showcased a prototype. Then they could have developed it based on feedback. Too late now. However, if Yamaha are clever, they are already working on the PRO version that includes the features we want:

1) MIDI in and out
2) USB-C
3) Audio LR outs
4) Save beats
5) Loop beats
6) Drum sounds from Motif

I wish it had a rotary encoder to facilitate data entry. Holding buttons down for long sweeps of values can get tedious.

can it save a beat that you play? thanks. i watched the whole video

I'd love to see a cross between this and a Wavedrum. The FGDP gives access to full drum kits, by tapping in different areas... while the Wavedrum allows playing naturally like a normal drum and has much greater expressiveness and nuance of rhythm. Would be really cool to have the best of both.

Kinda weird that it only has a 3.5mm output. I would expect at least a 1/4" TRS or XLR. Not to mention MIDI.

Is there no midi in/out?

What about price?

Why are the pads laid out with an overall concave shape when everybody's fingers form a natural convex shape?

Why are they so thick? It's 2023

I suoni sono fantastici,i pad sono molto reattivi, ma la disposizione dei pad per me che sono abituato agli MPC non mi convince,ma dovrei provsrlo per fsrmi un idea migliore .

瀬戸さん、早くレビュー動画作ってくれないかな？

That's a drum machine 😊😊😊

This is great. I'm a pro-drummer struck down with chronic arthritis - This could be my new kit solution!

wow... cool