Nope, no story. I just can't stand programming the blasted thingsinverseroom wrote:Hmm...I think I hear a story...Mark wrote:I hate drum machines. I'm seriously considering going down the singer-songwriter with acoustic guitar route just so I NEVER have to use a fucking drum machine (or soft drums, or a sequencer) AGAIN.
Your favorite drum machine and how you use it.
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The MPC 2000xl is great. It's more like an instrument than a machine. I use that and a Korg ER-1.
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Hey,
I have bought and sold a few drum machines over the past year and I have ended up back where I started from, well sort of.
I've always used an Alesis SR16. I have found it the easiest to program via step mode and live mode. Of course it fit my budget too. I never did like the sounds from it though. Now I just use the MIDI signal and I get the sounds from a Novation Drumstation. That has either sampled/analog 808 and 909 emulated sounds.
I also have an Maestro Rythym King. It's too funny, I hear it in popular music all the time from Dick Hyman to Low. I can't get rid of it.
I have bought, played and sold:
E-MU Drumulator - way to hard to program, no midi, it has some cool sounds
Oberheim DX - great, totally 80's, switch out the eproms, no midi though...
Oberheim Stretch DX - same as above with MIDI, just huge!
Good Luck, hope this helped,
Jim
I have bought and sold a few drum machines over the past year and I have ended up back where I started from, well sort of.
I've always used an Alesis SR16. I have found it the easiest to program via step mode and live mode. Of course it fit my budget too. I never did like the sounds from it though. Now I just use the MIDI signal and I get the sounds from a Novation Drumstation. That has either sampled/analog 808 and 909 emulated sounds.
I also have an Maestro Rythym King. It's too funny, I hear it in popular music all the time from Dick Hyman to Low. I can't get rid of it.
I have bought, played and sold:
E-MU Drumulator - way to hard to program, no midi, it has some cool sounds
Oberheim DX - great, totally 80's, switch out the eproms, no midi though...
Oberheim Stretch DX - same as above with MIDI, just huge!
Good Luck, hope this helped,
Jim
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My votes:
Boss Dr.660 - easy to edit and create interesting sounds
Korg Mini Pops - no editing at all. couldn't be simpler to use.
Boss Dr. Pad I & II - not drum machines, elec. percussion - best 80's snare sound ever!
Check out the mini pops, they can usually be had for a song on ebay.
Boss Dr.660 - easy to edit and create interesting sounds
Korg Mini Pops - no editing at all. couldn't be simpler to use.
Boss Dr. Pad I & II - not drum machines, elec. percussion - best 80's snare sound ever!
Check out the mini pops, they can usually be had for a song on ebay.
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the Korg Electribe ES-1 is my weapon of choice.
Global delay should be a feature on EVERY sequencer like the ES-1 has. its my..... shhhhhh.... *secret* weapon......
Global delay should be a feature on EVERY sequencer like the ES-1 has. its my..... shhhhhh.... *secret* weapon......
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We have a pre midi 808, an R8, a dr rhythm, a qy10...
I just use reason these days. More flexibility. We still have all that, oh yeah, and the first linn drum machine.
Those are cool, but so clunky compared to sample manipulation in reason.
If you use great sounds in reason, reason is great.
I programmed an SR16 for a song on an album last year, it sounds rad. Took the four outs I had available. Kick, snare LR main outs separate, then all the hatty type stuff stereo out the aux out. Awesome.
Run the kick through an altec 438, and the snare had a little sansamp...
I just use reason these days. More flexibility. We still have all that, oh yeah, and the first linn drum machine.
Those are cool, but so clunky compared to sample manipulation in reason.
If you use great sounds in reason, reason is great.
I programmed an SR16 for a song on an album last year, it sounds rad. Took the four outs I had available. Kick, snare LR main outs separate, then all the hatty type stuff stereo out the aux out. Awesome.
Run the kick through an altec 438, and the snare had a little sansamp...
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It can sync to 96 ppq, a squealy tone best not monitored thru your speakers, it should be able to stipe a track and sync to that track.aurelialuz wrote: another cool machine we use a lot is the DX. clunky, won't save patterns, but fuck, it was the machine used on run-dmc's "it's tricky", how can you not love it? great claps too. and the fact that is has buttons is rad for overdubbing, especially since it doesn't seem to have any form of sync.
alex
I sometimes MIDI sync my linndrum, feed it's sync out (which is half speed of the DX sync rate) so on the DX the measures are twice as long but it works just fine. Syncs every thing to MIDI give or take the occational glitch.
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We use an R8 (because it has big pads) to trigger an S3000xl. We also have a Pearl "Traveler" kit with mesh heads that we have triggered up.
Has anybody used the akai drum-pad box that came out not too long ago?
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Has anybody used the akai drum-pad box that came out not too long ago?
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i like it. the pads are responsive and can be setup just like the mpc - 16 levels or all note on. never used the usb interface. build feels ok...pads are nice, the casing is a bit flinsy, but light. you can tap out rhythms in your lap just fine.i'm currently using a 606, oberheim dx, and an akai sampler (s3000xl) with one of those mpc controller pads that akai makes.
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Re: Your favorite drum machine and how you use it.
I use a DR-660, in no special way.
Anybody play their drum machine out through speakers and then mic the speakers?
Anybody play their drum machine out through speakers and then mic the speakers?
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