Drum Synths

[melnikov_project]

what about spectrasonics stylus.it can be set to play many kinds of drums and loops for each note.
or the stylus rmx for very good loops and u can separate each sound in the loop and use it seperatly.
what i mean why bother makin somethink some one else already made for u.

[Onkel Dunkel]

Originally Posted by 3o3

Jomox XBase-09 = Isn't this machine just wellknow for it's hard kick and nothing else? I wanna recall that a friend of mine has one and he just use it for the kick.

He should sell it and get the Mbase01 instead...

[Drammy]

I have the Machinedrum and am going to sell it, along with my Virus XL so that I can pay for my Virus TI.

The MachineDrum is absolutely fantastic for tweekheads, there are 4 synthesis types with so many paramters, effects, routing options and master effects available. The Midi Machines and Parameter locks unleash incredible potential!

The interface is a breeze to use the thing is rock solid.

I bought it because I am on the road a lot and when staying in hotels I felt withdrawn from my studio, so this little unit was easily portable and enabled me to make beats in hotel rooms.

I want a TI though and I have other alternatives for percussion (mainly RMX) so it is going to be passed onto the next loving home.

Drammy.

On the Yahoo Groups Elektron MD website there is a competition every month where the previous months winner picks 1 synth sound (ie an 808 snare or the physical modelling ride cymbal) and everyone else has to make a beat using that sound alone.

Have you ever tried making a beat from just 1 hi-hat? Including a kick and everything! Well with the MachineDrum you can do just that - fantastic piece of kit for the inventive and creative amongst us.

It might be worth checking some of the files on the forum

Oh hang on a minute it looks like the contest finished November 2004, oh well, sign up and you can hear what they used to do...


Drammy

[Hollowcell]

As you can see already there is a fair bit of personal opinon around this issue.

My advice is talk to people who are making the beats you'd like to make to find out what they are using.

Specially for the genres you have mentioned there always seems to be a heap of processing - usually in the way of gates and compressors, but the raw sounds vary heaps. Putting it down to one machine would be pretty difficult.

[Merlot]

Dramm hit the nail on the head with the description of the MD. It is a tweakers dream. Great sounds that are not your run of the mill stuff either (like the rolands). Go with the MD. You wont be dissapointed.

[Panopticon]

Machinedrum. Love those things.

I'll probably get flamed for this, but I really hate 808's, 909's and the like. To me, those sounds really seem to date a song.
But, alas, I'm crazy. I hate 303's too.

Flame away...

[jasedee]

Thanks for the info guys!

HC: Good point. But tracking down artists and convincing them to give away their secrets may not be too easy

Drammy: Cheers for the links!

DS: 707 huh? may just check that out...cos it would be nice to have some analogue goodness

melnikov_project: Trying to stay away from software. I need more hands on action, and I still dont think software is at the same quality as hardware, plus the whole taking up my CPU resources issue

[Smag]

Jomox have brought out the XBase09 SE which is an upgraded version of their drum machine.

You can select from 808, 909 CR78 and JMX sounds so it might be worth checking out.

[core7]

I write nu skool breaks but mostly electro, maybe 6 months ago I had cash in hand and was extremely hard-up to purchase a hardware drum sequencer. I bought, experimented with, and sold all of them within a month of buying them.
1. Roland MC 909 ( pure cheese, I liked the sequencer but the sound did'nt have any ass behind it )
2. Akai MPC 2000 ( completely prehistoric, utilising floppies and zips, it did sound good though )
3. Elektron MachineDrum ( it is all things great, except for the sound. I did'nt like the HH's or SN's and it sounded kinda thin and flat. thats my opinion a lot of people love 'em and they are fun and versatile. They emulate analog supremely with the tweakability factor but not so with the sound, the price did'nt justify the overall)

I ended up going back to just doing all my sequencing with my DAW. In hindsight it seemed redundant to sequence on hardware and then to sequence it back into Pro Tools. kinda like double work.

If it sounds good though I'll probably splurge on another. If you're into analog check out a Vermona drm1 mkII. I got to play with one the other day at the local synth museum and I was very impressed, it's a module, no sequencer and completely analog, sounds awesome and completly tweakable.

[Analog Warriors]

Originally Posted by jasedee

707 huh? may just check that out...cos it would be nice to have some analogue goodness

but the TR707 isn't analog - it's sample based