Hardware Drum Machine thread

dayum, girl!

Edited October 3, 2012 by LimpyLoo

  On 10/3/2012 at 7:28 PM, DerWaschbar said:

I just picked up one of these:

 

 

Really great electro tones and pretty reasonable prices in these late 70's early 80's drum brains.

nice, i used to have one myself but it was bent to shit the case was like 10x worse looking. I heard they are very easy to CV mod (pitch/decay) but i never tried it

Edited May 1, 2015 by John Ehrlichman

just got one of these.

  On 5/1/2015 at 2:48 AM, skibby said:

just got one of these.

Nice, bend that shit!

Assembled this one some time ago

 

Wooden cabinet is still in process (for several months lol).

Which one is that?

the electribe er-1 is so much fun and pretty versatile. harsh clark-y hihats, punchy bds. no single outs, so i use left/right as dry/wet, running through a cheap guitar fx unit and sometimes the microbrutes filter. good that it has two inputs, otherwise i couldnt use all my gear because i dont have a proper mixer. the slice function on the audio ins is great for basslines. only thing i hate is that you cant proper use the pitch knob to like the same three settings. it's way to tiny to play real notes and triggering it via midi (which is a mess anyway because of very weird way the electribe voices are to adress) only gives 0-127 over the pitch range, so it's dissonant.

 

anyone using the er-1 or es-1... ? is it possible to proper pitch the samples? what are your secrets?

Edited May 1, 2015 by tokn

  On 5/1/2015 at 3:49 AM, sweepstakes said:

 

  On 5/1/2015 at 2:48 AM, skibby said:

 

just got one of these.

Nice, bend that shit!

It would be cool to add memories w/ loads of kits But i only bought it on impulse cause i could have it that same day. But yeah all it needs are parameter lox, n.p.

  On 5/1/2015 at 11:50 AM, telefunken said:

Assembled this one some time ago

 

Wooden cabinet is still in process (for several months lol).

Whats that??? Looks like Mutable or

I believe that's this:

http://www.sonic-potions.com/lxr

  On 5/1/2015 at 1:32 PM, tokn said:

the electribe er-1 is so much fun and pretty versatile. harsh clark-y hihats, punchy bds. no single outs, so i use left/right as dry/wet, running through a cheap guitar fx unit and sometimes the microbrutes filter. good that it has two inputs, otherwise i couldnt use all my gear because i dont have a proper mixer. the slice function on the audio ins is great for basslines. only thing i hate is that you cant proper use the pitch knob to like the same three settings. it's way to tiny to play real notes and triggering it via midi (which is a mess anyway because of very weird way the electribe voices are to adress) only gives 0-127 over the pitch range, so it's dissonant.

 

anyone using the er-1 or es-1... ? is it possible to proper pitch the samples? what are your secrets?

I have an ES-1. It doesn't do chromatic sampling but it is GREAT as a sampling drum machine. Nice amount of grit but you can get very deep/bassy tones if you know how to work it. Of course it all depends on the source material too though.

these r fun too

  On 5/1/2015 at 2:16 PM, skibby said:

 

  On 5/1/2015 at 11:50 AM, telefunken said:

Assembled this one some time ago

 

Wooden cabinet is still in process (for several months lol).

Whats that??? Looks like Mutable or

 

 

  On 5/1/2015 at 3:33 PM, sweepstakes said:

I believe that's this:

http://www.sonic-potions.com/lxr

 

yeah, it is LXR

pretty cool drum machine

really nice job on the casing, so its a digital drum synthesizer then? The screen is very reminiscent of that same OLED screen i see on a lot of good quality DIY kit stuff, i love those screens. I think its the same one they have on the midi alf and most of the midibox stuff

Yeah digital.

 

Here is quick and dirty recording
https://clyp.it/pufzam3n

wow that sounds very nice. For a digital synth engine those noise parts sound pretty nice. very different sound than other digital drum stuff coming out recently. Does it have some kind of roll/stutter function on it?

some of those kick drums at the end sound very FM

Edited May 2, 2015 by John Ehrlichman

Yeah it has roll with tweakable rate.

It has different synth engines for different instruments. Most of them have 2 or 3 ops fm (Snare doesn't though). You can mix hardcoded sampled transients (these parameters called Clicks). Also you can morph between kits.

It has maximum pattern length of 16 steps but you can chain patterns.

ooh, looks like it's pretty cheap too. I was thinking of getting a machinedrum to go with the monomachine but I might aim for one of those instead!

I just ordered a Sonic Potions LXR, mad props for the tip Telefunken.

Will be using the experience for research purposes since I'm building a specification list for my own design and there's some knowledge gaps. Getting some wikid ideas for a same but different approach. Intending to get into the source code as well.

  On 5/2/2015 at 3:18 AM, modey said:

ooh, looks like it's pretty cheap too. I was thinking of getting a machinedrum to go with the monomachine but I might aim for one of those instead!

have you looked at the nord drum 2? I kinda feel like it beats the machinedrum in terms of just the timbres it produces. Richard DEvine has been using one a lot for live shows recently.

Yeah Nord Drum 2 up there on my lust list. Sounds great, UI looks good, and it has a cute form factor. Plus I believe you can trigger it with audio so you can avoid MIDI jitter.

wow that lxr looks fuckin niiiice. visually, and the description of the engine seems pretty cool too. seems very flexible/tweakable. the demos sound nice too. a digital sound but not a bad digital sound. price does look pretty cheap for how much of a serious piece of hardware it looks.

I can unequivocally say that the Nord Drum 2 is my favorite drum synth. Such a range of amazing sounds.

 

The best combo is to sequence it with the Machine Drum, doing MIDI CC plocks.

 

Seriously can't reccomend it enough. My only complaint is that it is only stereo outs... Would love individual outputs.

Edited May 4, 2015 by Kcinsu

  On 5/4/2015 at 2:05 AM, Kcinsu said:

I can unequivocally say that the Nord Drum 2 is my favorite drum synth. Such a range of amazing sounds.

 

The best combo is to sequence it with the Machine Drum, doing MIDI CC plocks.

 

Seriously can't reccomend it enough. My only complaint is that it is only stereo outs... Would love individual outputs.

and you have a machinedrum and a G2 right? or i remember you making some of the best drum synth sounds i'd ever heard on a nord a few years ago. your statements increase my gear lust

 

the ipad app seems pretty useful as well, do you use that often? I'm curious how bendable the drum synth engine voices are compared to the machinedrum. It really wouldn't need to be that configurable, nothing else really is in terms of just individual drum voices

Edited May 4, 2015 by John Ehrlichman