Dream Drum Machine

Little_Dadd · February 28, 2018, 5:28am

PO-32 inside the physical body of the drumbrute!
with the ability to load sampled drums like the digitakt.

d2ba · February 28, 2018, 5:30am

It exits Pioneer DJS-1000

VanillaSun · February 28, 2018, 7:22am

If someone were to blend together a MPC, SP-1200, Nord Drum 2, MD, and Rytm.

Now that would be dreamy!

Naboo · February 28, 2018, 8:37am

The Rytm MKII is the dream drum machine you speak of it would be my go to drum machine for replicating PO32/Microtonic sounds. It’s very similar in tone. Add to that, analog compressor, distortion, sampling & fx. Doesn’t get much better than that…all in one compact package. ND2 also has very similar architecture but with broader palette.

But I digress…I traded in my dream drum machine for tanzmaus & tanzbar lite, for their raw sound and narrow & immediate palette.

Automageddon · February 28, 2018, 9:45am

Nord drum 2 with an Elektron sequencer.
I know it can be simulated with 2 machines, but you still have to configure shit…

DrB · February 28, 2018, 9:49am

I’d like a DSI Tempest sound engine with the Elektron operating system please.

acidhouseforall · February 28, 2018, 9:49am

and effects please, cause the tempest is too dry.

DrB · February 28, 2018, 9:50am

True. I kinda figured that’d be standard with an Elektron OS.

xmit · February 28, 2018, 10:11am

Roland nearly got it right with the TR-8 : if it had more editing of parameters to make your own unique sounds, sample import ( at least, if not actual sampling ) , better / more FX, more pattern memory, more
separate anlaogue outs & ditched the glowing green it would’ve been the One.

acidhouseforall · February 28, 2018, 10:14am

Analog Rytm ? Hook up an external mixer and you have the faders we all like in the TR8.

xmit · February 28, 2018, 10:18am

Sold the Analog Rytm about 2 years ago after grappling for well over 12 months with it. Horrible sounding thing. Sorry - realise that’s not a popualr view on here

Sort of wish I’d never sold my trusty MD & replaced it with the RYTM - the MD was a much better sounding machine.

acidhouseforall · February 28, 2018, 10:20am

I didn’t like the analog machines either, but since it has sample playing… who cares ?

acidhouseforall · February 28, 2018, 10:21am

BTW, I see a lot of MD on the market

DrB · February 28, 2018, 10:22am

So basically they got almost nothing right with it.

xmit · February 28, 2018, 10:23am

because I bought it to be an analogue drum machine & then jsut spent all my time using the bloody awful sample import architecture to actually
get anything good sounding. I have Live for sampled drums…
It’s like the AnalogFour - which ended up just being a CV&gate sequencer - couldn’t justify keeping it. Elektron analogue just doesn’t do it for me,

xmit · February 28, 2018, 10:23am

what -the Rytm or the TR-8 ?

DrB · February 28, 2018, 10:24am

The TR-8.

xmit · February 28, 2018, 10:25am

no the TR-8 sounds terrific : I had the Rytm already, sat a TR-8 alongside it & realised it was doing everything sonically the Rytm wouldnt.

DrB · February 28, 2018, 10:27am

Oki doke. Just figured with that long laundry of things you wanted to change about it, you hated it.

xmit · February 28, 2018, 10:30am

no - I loved it. The thread is ‘dream drum machine’ - my point was Roland could’ve ( they still could,but they won’t… ) absolutely nailed it with the TR-8 as they got so close.

I keep wishing they’d bring out a ‘TR-X’ - with some of the features I listed,… so you’d end up with something like an ACB Jomox Alphabase but without all the bugs, cost & uncertainty of
support etc. But I know they won’t.