recording drum machine w/band...help

[Dakota]

great suggestions all over so far, my band's done this as well - only thing to add is maybe try modifying the output of the keyboard/drum machine to separate the kick/snare by panning them L/R (unless there's weird fill stuff) so you have a little more control in mixdown. then you can reamp/blend w/ direct, or overdrive/etc. we also ended up having a blend of DI - reamped - and effected sources for the final mix for our stuff. having pseduo control of tracks was helpful when we wanted to send a reverb to the snare or something after the fact.
good luck!

If you're not into soldering, and/or potentially ruining a keyboard that doesn't belong to you, you could try editing the DI track in your DAW. It would be time consuming, but you could separate the kicks/snares and put them on their own respective tracks if they don't overlap.

Potentially cool and less time consuming trick for separating kick/snare from a DI track: set up a plugin gate w/ an eq sidechain. Dial a steep lowpass on the eq so that only the kick opens the gate. Print that to its own track. Then dial a tight bandpass at whatever frequency the snare has its "thonk" or "thwack" (? between 250 and 1.5 k, fish around), print that to another track. You can keep repeating this, fishing the eq around, to get other components to selectively open the gate. It will sound choppy by itself, but used to send off to different fx and reamping treatments and then blended back with the original track, it can get pretty cool and dimensional sounding.

[Bill @ Irie Lab]

At our Sunday night jam session an occasional visitor runs a Casiotone through a DoD pedal into a spare guitar amp and can get some cool rhythmic 'pad' sounds.

If you record to a DAW that accepts VST plugs you might get some mileage from recording the keyboard drums to its own track and then replacing the parts with something like this:

http://koen.smartelectronix.com/KTDrumTrigger/

its free (but no drugagog) and a load of fun. Try replacing the snare sound with a big 24-bit monster sample.

Bill