#40

Thanks! Not completely unopposed, but I have decided to restrict my iPad to what I bought it for - reading - books and manuals and ongoing wikis. I need to be able to do this while I’m playing music… I use a couple of virtual instruments in Logic, but I do prefer creating sounds outside the box.

#41

Have you played a Ciat-Lonbarde Plumbutter? If you’re into the Double Knot the Plumbutter might work well for you. It can produce very many ecstatic tones and other emotionally salient tones.

EDIT: You might also look into the JoMoX Alphabase thing. If I were going to buy a new drum machine, I would look into the Alphabase hardcore.

#42

I tried Plumbutter. I didn’t get on that well with it. I’ve heard others make lovely stuff with it, but not me… I MUCH prefer Double Knot and I’m thinking of adding a Mosstone to make a 3rd voice. I do like the JoMox stuff, but the sampled hihat really put me off so I sold the one I owned late 90s…

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#44

BeatMaker 2 by INTUA


beatmaker 2 comes with all the sounds ipad/iphone

beatmaker 3 comes with some sounds, in app purchases, and plug ins /for ipad

#45

always a very fun challenge to try and make drum sounds with the hardware you have!

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#46

Agreed. Except OCD me can’t look at what I perceive as flaws and wonder if they could be improved/fixed. I’ve just written to Vermona and some tech folk who modded my Acetone in Philly to see if we can get expo decay and independent closed and open hats. I’ll keep everyone posted.

While I’m here If there are other DRM 1 users here - I just figured what now seems like a very obvious secondary use for it. Forgive me if everyone already figured this out, I only just did so. Because each channel has an individual out which can also work as an insert point, these outputs can also be used as inputs - turning the DRM1 into an 8 channel mixer. Just connect an insert cable and only the return, et voila! Not super elegant, and volume doersn’t work (pan does), but I had a few spare insert cables and now I don’t need a dedicated drum mixer on the drum table…

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#47

I’m not a DRM1 user, but a quick bit of research suggests you can also do this with the TwinCussion, which I do have. The individual waveform outs double as inputs, apparently. I have an existing patch to record first, but will then be investigating…

#48

Hi all

What equipment can give me reasonable synthesised basic acoustic drum kit (i.e. kick, snare, hats, cymbals). None of these were really covered in the hardware physical modelling thread.

Auditioning samples when I’m playing with other people is really starting to annoy me. I’d like something that allows for expressive playing and also altering each sound without having to load (and audition) new drums sounds when what I’ve got already isn’t fitting.

I want something that sounds more or less like a real kit - circumstances are currently preventing me from using one. All I can really think of is the Nord Drum, but most videos demonstrate it an augmentation to an acoustic kit so don’t really play the basic kit sounds.

I’d consider getting a electric drum brain module as well (which I assume are all basically romplers) but I’m not sure if parameters are really that alterable on those. I feel they are much more expressive than samplers with drum sounds loaded, but I’d be facing another choice of 500 kits to pick from each time.

Any thoughts?

#49

The Nord can do basic kit sounds well. But editing them on the fly (i think that’s what you want) could be a bit challenging

#50

Not sure if you’re talking modular, but I wonder if something like Expert Sleepers General CV might fit the bill?

#51

Elektron Machinedrum has a physical modeling engine which is v. tweakable in real time.

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#52

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#53

Lots of how percussion feels, depends of the post processing. There are many good hardware compressors/processors available from Elektron, OTO, Bugbrand etc that can change the feel and presence of the drums in the mix. There is a new unit in Kickstarter called Spice that has a lot of promise. My latest discovery is Roland Torcido that can do some interesting things with percussions and is sold really cheap these days.

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#54

Yes and no. The envelopes seem key, to me. Distortion will flatten/compress,impart resonances, etc, and that can be fun, and musical. But the decay envelopes, if they aren’t great to begin with will respond less musically, I think.
I just spent almost a week with the Nord Drum 2 - learning, listening, cataloguing, and now finally some programming and the ability to fine tune the envelopes in conjunction with the various distortion options (its built in distortion and ‘ring mod’ sound great to my ears, the bit reducer, not so much) makes it a great instrument. I will be investing more time in it. I’m sure it will be worth it. More to follow.

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#55

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Really enjoying this as a drum synth. The 4 operators go quite far with the additive synthesis and feedback control, as well as 2 filters that can be modulated. I wanted to emulate the Noise Engineering BIA glitchy beat thing and it does fairly well.

I just wish Elektron would standardise some of their features across devices, and implement the retrig functions and master compressor from the Digitakt!

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#56

Amen. I was working with both on last project…
That said, they are great little boxes. I just wish the term TRIG wasn’t at the core of all things Elektron.

#57

yes, I also feel that you can do a lot with good envelopes. Here is one short piece I did with Digitakt using only short sample of white noise from the ‘empty’ input buffer of the instrument. Everything here is shaped by the internal filter and envelopes https://soundcloud.com/t3hh/noise-study-20170716

#58

Yep. I really wish that I could sequence MIDI from my A4, it feels like an entirely arbitrary limitation.

#59

i would love to hear some of the stuff you’ve done. I’ve done a bit of exploration but haven’t gotten very far with this so far, unfortunately…

#60

Digitone sure is a nice synth but more importantly - this is such a lovely photo :smiley:

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