Drum Machine recomendations

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BigPapaFly

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Like I said in the mic post, I've decided to spend my money on equipment that will enhance my 788 recordings, rather than buy the Yamama 16 track. This gives me a little money to play with.

I am a sucker for hip-hop grooves-- heavy, beefy hip-hop grooves (in spite of the accoustic pop I write). My local Guitar Center rarely even has the drum machines on display routed properly through headphones, plus, you kind of need to know how to program the things in order to get a true sense of how manipulatable they are (is "manipulatable" a word?)...how about user friendly?...

...Anyway, I'll want it to have a good sequencer-- something that doesn't take weeks to figure out, too. If I could slave my keyboard to it that would be great. Generally, I'll sample grooves, but most of the grooves I sample are just drum machine parts that other producers have sequenced and recorded.

So far, I don't think we have any hip-hop producers in here, but if we do, or if anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate them. GC has a 30 day return policy, but I could (and probably WILL) spend that long just figuring the thing out. A head start would be nice.

Thanks to all who can help!

It's Friday, 12/28 right now, I plan on buying on Jan 2.

BPF
 
Check out the electribe series at korg.com. The mp3's I posted www.mp3.com/RooMusic use ea1 and er1 loops with no external effects (other than compression added). No difficulty of use but only one left and one right output, and no touch sensitive pads. But lots of other great features eg on the fly synthesis and audio sample incorporation. On this machine you synthesise and program the drum sounds rather than just program them. The es1 is a sampler which has had mixed reviews (I don't have one) and the em1 is reportedly a poor mans version of all three.

hth
Rich ;)
 
Yo Fly Man:

If you married a girl named, Paper, she'd be: "FlyPaper."

[I couldn't resist.]

As to the drum machine, listen to the Boss 770. Yes, you can program it. The thing about programming a drum box is it takes time and most folks want to do what our culture dictates, get it done and move on. I used to program my Alesis SR-16. I haven't programmed my Boss 770 because it has 400 patches and I haven't even heard half of them yet.

The Latin Patches are great. There are all kinds of Rock patches. Also, you have an A/B flip that enhances the patch which is really great.

So, give it a listen. Boss also makes another model with a different set of patches so maybe you ought to listen to both of them if you can.

It's a great little drum machine and it has pads to add creative touches on an empty track or tracks.


Green Hornet


:D ;) :p
 
I also use the DR-770. I don't know if you will like it only for hip-hop. I love it because it does all kinds of sounds for all kinds of music. Very versatile.

BTW, it's spelled "masturbatable".
 
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