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Your cart is empty.Portable Finger-drumming Meets Full-power Production As beat-making becomes more accessible, finger-drumming is a quick, intuitive way for seasoned or burgeoning musicians to get hands-on with their rhythm! Yamaha’s FGDP-50 is an all-in-one recording, composition, playback, and groove-crafting machine dedicated to the emerging world of finger drumming, fully capable of powerful standalone or interoperative use. Each of its 18 performance pads is arranged ergonomically to maximize accessibility while accommodating the distinct workflow needs of working with your hands. Moreover, each pad is equipped to process aftertouch and velocity sensitivity, ensuring you capture every nuance of your performance. You’ve also got eight assignable pads for additional sampling, one-shots, and more to customize your kit. Beat-makers at Sweetwater appreciate the portability-minded design, from its slim form factor and onboard speaker to its rechargeable battery, vivid LCD display screen, and built-in Rec’n’Share feature that lets you instantly record with backing tracks straight to your
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Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2025
Amazing. I got this for hubby for Xmas. Hubby uses it everyday and loves it
Troyalan
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2025
Love the pad feel and total control you have over the tone, expression, and velocity of each pad. Some of the stock samples are quite typical and a bit cheesy. But if you detune,and use effects etc, they become more original. Menu diving set up leaves a lot to be desired. It came out in 2023 I believe. Yet no USB C?Fun machine!
Jesús Morales
Reviewed in Mexico on September 24, 2024
Compacto y profesional, buena calidad de sonido, muchos instrumentos para configurar
Pierault
Reviewed in Canada on September 22, 2024
Un simulateur de drum exceptionnel. Reproduit de vrais batteries avec une justesse stupéfiante. Pour un home studio c'est parfait si vous avez le béat dans le sang. Avec Yamaha c'est rare qu'on se trompe. Livraison rapide.
LUIS E ORENGO
Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2024
Fast delivery. This item carries the brand name of a great company, and it won't disappoint. Sounds are almost real, and it is intuitive and extremely easy to master
l.w. iacono
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2024
I love almost everything about this finger-drum pad. The pads are super responsive and the layout of the pads is perfect for playing fast beats. It is so much fun to play. The internal speaker is quite good and it is a blast to be able to take this thing anywhere and play drums in a convincing way without a drum kit (of course you can connect it to an amp or headphones if you want it to sound better).The one huge problem I have with this instrument is that it runs out of charge incredibly quickly. If I play it continuously, starting with a full charge, it shuts down because of low battery within 1/2 an hour. Admittedly it charges up very quickly (10 min or so), but an instrument like this should be playable for several hours on a single charge. I thought the first unit I ordered might be defective, so I returned it and got another one, but the replacement also shuts down very quickly. I am going to keep the instrument because it is so much fun to play, but this is a huge design flaw that Yamaha really should have remedied before releasing the unit.(It should be noted that you can play the instrument plugged into a power source, so the short battery life does not preclude using it in live performance.)A couple other small criticisms are that the power input should be USB C, not micro-USB, and that it would be great if the machine could perform some type of quantization for those of us who are not adept finger drummers. But I would still have given the instrument 5 stars because it is just so much fun, were it not for the battery issue.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2024
I like this because it gives me a drum set in my lap and i don't need to use sticks or get all my limbs coordinated-it could use midi jacks for easy connection to other instruments or workstations but it has usb for hooking up to computer and passes along digital audio so you can skip extra decoding stepI haven't tried my own sounds yet but i could see triggering different songs parts (as wav samples)from top row of pads and being a sort of one man band or at least adding other triggered partsit has 1/8 inch jack in to add other sound sources to headphone or analog outsThe rechargeable battery and small internal speaker do give you a lot of freedom to just mess around or play with acoustic instruments without a pa.
Ashim Tirkey
Reviewed in India on December 19, 2024
Being a pianist, its just works like a charm. Yamaha FGDP has given me an oportunity to bring my drums to any place I want and play i would play live using a kit.
Brambor
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2024
It is a learning curve but I love the ability to drum with a looper
Kevin
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2024
You really have to whack these pads to get them to respond. Very difficult to get them to trigger consistently on a ride pattern without wearing out the old finger joints. No MIDI.
geek squad central
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2024
I'm mainly learning piano, but I figured this would give me a way to develop rhythm and more finger coordination while I watch TV at night. With an earphone so as not to disturb my wife, which mostly works although she can hear me tapping on the rubber pads. But its ok if watching some mindless tv show.Using free youtube videos I've already learned a bunch of basic beats and fills. I'm starting to think I could even incorporate this into certain piano pieces, maybe using left hand to add a few beats or fills here and there in certain pop songs for emphasis. (For example, Hotel California has a bunch of places where the main instrument pauses for a couple beats and drums take over for a fill so in that case you could use both hands on the finger drums for a moment).The best thing about this is the built-in sounds, which are fun and have a lot of variety, and there's something to be said for hitting the power button and get up and running in 5 seconds. Most other units I looked at required external computer software to make sounds.Overall, very happy with this purchase.
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