At this point in time, this is really my biggest gripe with the wonderful bounty of new gear being foisted upon the masses. Mini-jacks don’t work for me and 2 or 4 audio outs is also problematic. I expect drum machines to have 6-8 individual outputs before I expect them to ship with reverb. The extra outputs are far more useful for me as a producer. Also, MIDI IN, OUT and THRU. Ideally, I’d like 2 MIDI OUTs with the ability to sequence a full compliment of external gear as a well as all of the internal voices on said drum machine.
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Octatrack MK2 for midrange and DJS-1000 for drums --no question these are the best two samplers on the market right now
Check out the new Frankie Bones single–made all with DJS-1000 and you will see what i mean about drums. Octatrack won’t get you there as deep
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That was fun. Voodoo techno. Reminds me of the arches and sub club in Glasgow in the early 90s!
Didn’t mean to rag on djs- it looks really cool - I’m just pissy cos my sp16 didn’t get live sampling. Perhaps I’ll do an sp16 Octatrack voodoo techno project. Cheers
For me, that would be Tr-8. The 909 and 808 sounds are just that good to me. Every now and then I would crave a new sound, but rarely it would be something from another drum machine. I wish the Tr-8 included more sounds or kits, but still. The original sounds is all I need at the moment.
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I sold my tempest talk about no OS updates he straight up gave up on updating it any further
Yeah, the OS is pretty bad. I still love the sound of it though, so I endure the OS for the sound. 
Not even an 808 can come close to the brute-force bass that comes out of that thing.
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it was a hard parting of ways I was using it for live and that fkn thing refused to slave and was a shitty master
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Sold my tempest too… Such a good synth and amazing Pads, but awkward AF to work with. Totally made me unable to finish anything. unlimited possibilities combined with slow workflow (I’m sure some have a better workflow with it, just saying…). ARMK2 is greatest ever for me.
My dream drum machine: Nord drum 2 (it’s synthesis can really create any drum sound) with hands on knobs like Tempest and Elektron sequencer. Here is a sketch I once did. Red knobs are the synthesis parameters, underneath is the noise (grey) & click (white) section and on the right is the eq/distortion/delay.
On the left you select one of the 6 voices with the 6 buttons and there are two ribbon controllers where you can assign any parameters (like pitch or decay).
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if it had the sampling capabilities of the AR MKII.
And Number of steps per Page + Instant pattern jump.
Tastes are subjective. I think it sounds great. I use a lot of guitars, synths, bass guitars, etc. - and I think they all sit in the mix really good (with the AR2).
I love the 808, and the 909 (especially the 909). I’ve owned both of the originals, but that sound isn’t right for all applications. That’s one of the things I like about the AR2 - it’s hybrid DNA and the ability to be a drum machine chameleon.
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Elektron did respond, but I chose to return the unit and have a new one sent out to me. Sweetwater was very quick to get me a new unit, but I haven’t had a chance to test it yet. Fingers crossed.
That kind of sounds like they didn’t confirm it’s a hardware issue. Can you share what they had to say about the issues your AR MK2 had?
Elektron sent me a beta dev build file to test on my machine. I didn’t install it, as I’m not interested in beta testing a unit on stage.
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I might agree on most of the things listed above.
At the end of a working day the most useful Drum Machine is the one(s) you have/use.
I love this mock up so much…
Where can I buy it?
Or use midi controller like faderfox
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AR is what I thought people would suggest!
I had the tonic and digitakt slaved to the drumbrute. Loved using both the dt and db but finally sold both last week after 6 months of trying different stuff with them and being torn between selling or not…
had to admit in the end that the sounds on the db weren’t cutting it for what I needed and the dt was just massive overkill for what I needed it to do, might have kept it if it had song mode or saving pattern chains…
I’m now looking at the TR-8 cos I have the octatrack and I’m thinking between the TR-8 and PO-32 and drum samples on the OT it could cover all of what I want…
was looking at the TR09 but seems crazy to spend $500 on that as opposed to $640 for the TR-8
oh yeah sorry that’s in Australian $
yeah I like this a lot too
Have to say the Rytm hasn’t quite raised the roof in my studio, though it has some rough charm when using the built in compressor, which is almost compulsory. Something sounds slightly odd with samples loaded on as well.
The perfect drum machine would be the Machinedrum (all 16 channels ), with pads, rytm style performance & scene modes (or Octatrack scene interface), 64-128mb ram per project, patches, more/better fx, Monomachine track modularity, extra lfo per channel, and the advanced sequencer. no overbridge required. All the pieces exist already.
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