akai announces $200 analog drum and bassline machine

lulz, just what i thought. shit demo

  On 9/6/2014 at 11:07 AM, jeyemusik said:

If you'd been thinking of getting this device but were thinkng that, after all this time, you don't actually want to hear it but would love to heard Dick Devine make it sound like absolutely everything else he does as a way of deciding if you're going to take the plunge..... well, you're in luck.

 

Better demo

Individual sounds

Well I think it's pretty cool.

  On 9/6/2014 at 11:07 AM, jeyemusik said:

If you'd been thinking of getting this device but were thinkng that, after all this time, you don't actually want to hear it but would love to heard Dick Devine make it sound like absolutely everything else he does as a way of deciding if you're going to take the plunge..... well, you're in luck.

 

I came here just to post something like this... amazon omg devine you go!

eh, it's actually pretty decent

  On 9/6/2014 at 4:21 PM, Rpeg said:

Better demo

 

 

 

Individual sounds

 

https://soundcloud.com/colectivotriangular/rhythm-wolf-single-sounds

marginally better yes but still looks and sounds like the guy doing it has never used a drum machine before....still it's a better showcase of the sounds and for that i am thankful....sounding alright!

Lol @ the Devine 'demo'.....

This is what the new $200 machine from AKAI sounds like if you run it along side your $30k modular

Anyway, a 6mb sample pack would probably have this thing covered.

Meh

AHAHAHA.... Waaadapiece ob psiet. At $200 mass produced, this thing is prolly running some $25 hardware innards. And since it sounds like shit, it's prolly more like $10. Logo is not even good. The whole thing must be a joke....

THAT BEING SAID-- for those of you who think they can do better demos (like me), this could be a business opportunity. So buy this $200 junk toy upon release, do a YouTube video of it sounding incredible, then in the video, straight up tell AKAI "That's how you do a hardware demo" BAM- fucking served. You (or I, if I wasn't so lazy) might be able to get future gigs just performing demos for drum machines.

I've seen a lot of GREAT hardware noodling from Richard Devine, and the fact that he has to hide this "Rhyhm Wolf" behind several thousand dollars worth of spaceship, might mean that this gear really is garbage.

This can still be decent despite the horrible demos. But one thing that I know for sure and have known for a while now is that I just don't like Richard Devine's music. I tried and tried and nope. Not gonna happen.

  On 9/8/2014 at 8:26 PM, paranerd said:

This can still be decent despite the horrible demos. But one thing that I know for sure and have known for a while now is that I just don't like Richard Devine's music. I tried and tried and nope. Not gonna happen.

That just means that you have no a soul.

But not even this?:

I can objectively appreciate his style and the work put into his tracks, but I find it all sterile and lifeless. I get nothing evocative from it. I can't explain it.

Yah, no- that's pretty straight forward. Most of his tracks are sterile and emotionless, and I suppose that is the "charm". It'll be a fine day when Richard Devine writes a track that makes a grown man cry.

His earlier stuff, maybe?

Yeah, those are decent. They have some funk and melody to them.

Yeah, every now and then he busts out some pretty melodies! That whole EP is a bit of a Chiastic Slide ripoff, but still pretty great.

sounds like a really chinsy version of one of the roland Boss analog drum machines like a d110 or a delptronics LDB-1, in other words kinda shit

dunno, i found the drum samples on the d110 to be pretty decent for what they are... in fact i kinda like the d110?

DR-110 is wicked, especially if you get it modded for midi or din sync control

  On 9/11/2014 at 9:47 PM, BCM said:

DR-110 is wicked, especially if you get it modded for midi or din sync control

oh, right. boss dr-110. i thought we were talking about the roland d-110, which has some good drum sounds despite not being a drum machine. my bad!

about Rico Devine... i do like a fair bit of his musical output I'm just bored by the fact that every product demonstration he does end up sounding more or less the same. in that context it just seems ridiculous that he uses such mountains of gear that is labyrinthine in complexity but ultimately could just be a cool wee Reaktor patch.