I'm considering what drum stuff to buy and I'm curious what you guys use and recommend!

What I'm looking at are these options:

Korg Electribe SX-1:
http://www.korg.com/gear/product_in...1&category_id=2




or a Elektron SPS-1 Machinedrum:
http://www.machinedrum.com/




I'm more included though towards the electribe since it uses vacuum tubes though. Looks uber cool and has a good bassy sound too

are you planing to use them live?

Nope, I'm going to use them in my studio.

i use me samples.. in fruity...

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Yeah i wouldnt bother buying hardware for drums, instead buy some proffesional sample cds.

I like hands on approach for step designing.

And the sound is a lot easier get _right_ with hardware.

i use reason and its a pice of piss. just need the right samples

Even though I loathe NI with a passion that will echo through the ages, Kontakt and Battery are reasonably decent packages you can use to set up your own drumkits. Get yourself a good collection of drum samples, set up some drumkits, and you'll be better off than with any hardware.

This is one of the ONLY times you'll ever hear me say that software is better than hardware. Drums are all sampled anyway so you don't have to worry about synthesis issues, and the amount of processing required on drums won't really affect your CPU/memory (just need a couple of compressors/eq).

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I do own both kontakt and battery.

Got any recommendation on good drumsamples?

theres are some free samples

here

Well, if you own Kontakt then you can go the route of the annoying East West packages like Stormdrum or DFH - as long as you've registered the stupid sampler that they come with, you can actually load them into Kontakt and create your own kits.

But really, I think that's a waste of money. There are thousands upon thousands of good quality, free drum samples scattered across the 'net. One of my personal favourites is a big pack of samples from the TR-909 - I don't remember exactly where I got it but it wasn't hard to find, just google "TR-909 samples". And you can honestly create some pretty good drum loops with just those samples and a good kick.

There's no one-stop shop for samples, though, to be honest I think it just takes a bit of work and patience to get a nice collection (I've been gathering for some 3 years and I still think mine's incomplete). The best strategy I've found is to look for samples from all the various drum machines (TR-909, TR-808, Linn Drum, HR-16, and so on) - they're all available online if you look.

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You can't go wrong with using a soft sampler and high quality samples or using a drum emulator program. Hardware for drums almost doesn't make sense becuase it still doesn't sound exactly like real drums. If you want the real drum sound, mic a real drummer in a good studio and use that for beats.