Acidlab Drumatix is an analog 606 clone with bonus 808 kick and snare, and a DR-110-esque clap.
This is a 60 slice chain for Analog Rytm. About 46 hits total. Many of the longer tail kicks take up 2 slices, and a couple of cymbal hits have tails lasting 4 slices.
This chain was reduced down from over 1300 drum hits recorded with just about every parameter knob setting, and repeated twice with increased accent settings.
If you would like access to all 1300 drum hits in all their 24 bit glory, the entire pack is available for just $6.99 at https://replicantsounds.com/sample-packs/acidlab-drumatix/
It’s been a long night compiling all of this.
Enjoy!
Thanks for the samples, Adam. I just built an AR kit with your sample chain, and also an AR-synthesis only one where I (originally) tried to match the samples. At least the toms, bassdrum and clap sounded somewhat similar (especially the toms).
By the way: You may have seen that I just released this sample chain tool (“AR Uploader”).
Just wanted to mention that it also works for the Octatrack.
It’s much easier than pasting the samples in a DAW.
What I like to do is
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[li]record drum hits from my synths[/li]
[li]load the big audio file into Audacity and use it to auto-remove the silence between the hits[/li]
[li]load the new file into Recycle and have it export a list of single drum hit WAVs[/li]
[li]then auto-convert the resulting directory to a sample chain and upload it to the AR using my tool.[/li]
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The upload step can be skipped and you can upload the sample chain using C6 or whatever to an OctaTrack instead.
Thanks for these samples Adam - gonna load up the OP-1 with the different kits on my ski trip and have a go!
@bsp: nice recipe, but what is Recycle adding in step 3? Audacity removes the silence, Recycle chops it into single hits, but then you’re stitching back together with your tool? Why not go from 2 to 4 directly?
@poonti: Recycle is for auto-splitting the recording into single drum hits. Audacity can’t do that, as far as I know. I use Audacity only for coarse editing and auto-removing longer periods of silence.
Besides, Recycle has another very important feature: It can output a MIDI file that stores the exact time offsets of the audio slices. That’s not necessarily needed for sample chains, of course, but it’s incredibly useful for recordings of rhythmic audio sequences: Auto-split the sequence and export the WAVs and the MID file using Recycle, load the exported WAVs in a sampler, then import the MID file in your sequencer and use it to trigger/rearrange the sampler slices. Very 90ies – but what works, works!
One of the reasons I don’t mind using a DAW (aside from becoming very efficient with the process) is I have a high level control over the overall length, and therefore file size, of the chain.
I’ve found that sample chain tools typically make all slices the length of the longest sample. So if I have some long tail, 3 second kicks, then a 60 slice chain is going to be 180 seconds long.
But making it myself in a DAW, I can spread that kick across multiple slices, and keep the overall length of the sample chain down. This means less silence after short samples in the chain, and more room for more chains in my Project Kit and +Drive
Example of spreading long tail Drumatix kicks and Cymbals across multiple slice segments:
I’ve found that sample chain tools typically make all slices the length of the longest sample. So if I have some long tail, 3 second kicks, then a 60 slice chain is going to be 180 seconds long.
Don’t worry, my samplechain creator can do both – fixed size chains and “varichains” which do exactly what you want. No memory wasted!
Nice job!
Really liked the demo track as well: raw electro! One of the best examples of the Drumatix I’ve heard: 606-ish but with a nice twist.
I kinda want the actual machine now too.
Huge thanks to Adam for posting this as I have to say sample chains for the Rytm plus the new trig probabilities have in many ways made this such an even bigger and more powerful machine. Love the community here! Cheers guys.
The sad note about this is that I really and likely going to sell a lot of my other gear because the dark trinity sounds so good, and practicing with them, much less recording with them is always so goddamn rewarding!
I loaded these samples into Patterning for a good bit of expression and just love those hats and cymbals. I usually have an aversion to snares too but really like both of the Drumatix Snares.
