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What are you using for Drum Machines?
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| lowski |
Hi, I'm wondering what you guys are using for software drum machines?. I've been using Reason's Redrum for a few years now liked the capabilities but I've switched to Logic and don't want to rewire Reason. Now with Logic, I'm not loving the Ultrabeat or ESX 24 for triggering my drums. So I'm wondering what others are using and how you like it. Maybe let us know some of the features that you most enjoy...
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| Mad for Brad |
| Ultrabeat is great but I suppose Kontakt or Battery might be good for your needs. |
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| owien |
two sticks and a bucket from the gardon lol
a good sample player to load into and i use midi for the rest and bounce some samples to wav to chop up to see waht i can get out of it. |
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| nortek |
| i miss redrum myself. |
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| Scrittah |
I just sequence each drum seperately. No sample players for me.
On the other hand, i'd give ultrabeat a little while - my school just got logic installed in the labs, and I'm liking what I'm getting from it. |
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| lowski |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mad for Brad
Ultrabeat is great but I suppose Kontakt or Battery might be good for your needs. |
Thanks, yeah I don't like all the extra mods and osc in Ultrabeat. I always have to make adjustments to the 'Drag & Drop' kit just to get the samples playing back properly. I do like how you can drag the samples to different spots though and the multi outputs. I also like the ablility to automate perameters for each sample instead just the unit as a whole, like the ESX 24
As for the ESX 24; it's great for loading Rex2 loops. I just wish you could set different automatable perameters for each 'zone'.
I just want something quick and easy to load and browse through samples with. I just looked at Battery3 on youtube and think I'm going to try that out. I was also just looking at Stylus, seems ok. |
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| lowski |
| quote: | Originally posted by Scrittah
I just sequence each drum seperately. No sample players for me.
On the other hand, i'd give ultrabeat a little while - my school just got logic installed in the labs, and I'm liking what I'm getting from it. |
Yeah I saw some other guys on youtube doing it that way. The thing is I often change my drums through out the creation of a song. So having to go back and change each audio would be hell for me. I like having MIDI set up then i just browse through samples while the device is triggering the sound. |
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| TaylorR |
| Using Guru while giving each pad an individual output to separate audio tracks so that i can process each one on its own. |
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| lowski |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mad for Brad
Ultrabeat is great but I suppose Kontakt or Battery might be good for your needs. |
Ok, I'm playing around with the demo version of Battery, does it not have a sequencer of it's own to use?. I would like to create my drum sequences in the module before i drag them to logic...makes it quicker to try new ideas |
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| cryophonik |
| quote: | Originally posted by lowski
Ok, I'm playing around with the demo version of Battery, does it not have a sequencer of it's own to use?. I would like to create my drum sequences in the module before i drag them to logic...makes it quicker to try new ideas |
No, Battery does not have a built-in sequencer. For drum machines w/sequencers that will trigger WAV samples, check out:
- FXpansion Guru
- MOTU BPM
- Native Instruments Maschine
There are others, but these three are probably the most widely used. There are also a bunch of them (e.g., Microtonic, various 808/909 emulators) that are synth-based, rather than sample-based. |
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| MSZ |
| re-drum. i would use kong if i had a midicontroller for it, im not using that without one(personal thing), my buddy loves to use it with the mouse. |
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