Hmmm … interesting … so, there’s one sequence of up to 128 bars it seems (5 fixed purpose tracks). Shame you can’t really tell (from the videos) what the full range of sounds is like.
EDIT: Seems a bit too much on the toyish side of things for me.
And this is what ultimately became of the “Unannounced (?) Donner synthesizer”
No it’s not.
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For those looking for background on the Medo, there has been a series of posts in the Crowdfunding thread, as it has gone through its Kickstarter.
It was a joke dude.
You’re not funny.
Apple should sue.
probably would have been better to leave this as a bullet point
Now I want to buy everyone a round of beer or other appropriate beverage that leads to chillage and silly laughs.
I backed this on Kickstarter, but I canceled before paying due to poor support. The price on the official store (with a 10% off code) is the same as the early bird price.
I’ll just point out that Donner MEDO has god d*mn arpeggiator while ST, DT, DT2 or Models don’t.
The video is not mine. I was on Kickstart and cancelled due to tremendous delay of the product. I may try it though, if so I’ll let to know how it is.
Some more videos -
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBGXc7xgnuu2aficBwSSOgHXehdKjtHas
Tried tonight. No external MIDI accepted, neither on BT nor on USB. Instant return to the store.
Another video: https://youtu.be/NHzXRHZu1DY?si=WATwsRGU5TJcwtik
Donner really needs to release a groovebox called Party
I wonder if Medo will support drum sample editing in the future. Orba 2 took over a year to add that feature.
A friend of mine just gave me a Medo as a holiday gift. Here is my day-2 review of the Medo.
I use Linux, so the desktop editor is a no-go. I successfully enabled MIDI over BLE (low-energy bluetooth) on my laptop (running Ubuntu 24.04). Successfully paired the Medo with my computer, launched Fluidsynth, used aconnect to operate Fluidsynth, via Bluetooth MIDI, by the Medo.
At this point, I’m jumping for joy…followed by some bad news: I started the MIDI monitor aseqdump and viewed the MIDI messages sent from the Medo. My initial thought was that each of the 5 “instruments” (drums, bass, chords, lead, sample) would broadcast on a different channel. Apparently not the case, unfortunately. When I changed instrument, the MIDI channel did NOT change. A CC, controller 1, value 0 … was sent each time I changed instruments, regardless of which instrument I changed to. And when I pressed PLAY for the simple song I’d created, all the parts seemed appeared to be sent on the same MIDI channel. Which is strange, because obviously the MEDO phone app mimicking a DAW was able to identify the separate parts. I assume, maybe wrongly, that there is some proprietary communication being transferred to the mobile app, outside the realm of MIDI.
Sending MIDI for distinct instruments, on distinct channels, seems like a no-brainer. Maybe I am missing something.
