Perkons because I can’ afford one.
And MD in combination with Airbase99.
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I recently sold all my synths and drum machines, but wanted just one analog drum machine to tinker with.
The drum machine I decided to buy is the Acidlab Drumatix.
By far, my favorite drum machine due to how good it sounds.
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Jomox Alphabase—it sounds sooooooo good. Just delicious. The machine really opened up for me once I delegated sequencing to Hapax.
Perkons—incredible sound, so easy to play and jam. For live performance, my favorite standalone drum machine.
Pulsar 23–mystery machine
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The best sounding drum machine I’ve ever heard is Pulsar 23. I believe there are way more sounds in it as people use it for [for example, metallic percussion and hihats, one can get a glimpse in loopop’s vid], even though what people use it for sounds great, too.
(Landscape Noon is completely differnet and sounds amazing too.)
I did and do not own either of them, though. If they only had Midi and Total Recall and the patching be virtual 
But luckily I come close to the Pulsar on my Rytm, and I’ve already started to get into Landscape Noon territory.
Apart from that I’d say Machinedrum since it has such a wide range of sounds and 16 effing tracks.
Edit: The reason I’m not mentioning Syntakt is because that iss a complete effing music production studio, but also a bit lacking in the hihat department. Rytm is more a “drum machine” and the hihats are better than on the Syntakt (because of the completely different track overdrive totally transforming their sound). Still … feels like way more than ‘just’ a drum machine I do own Syntakt and Rytm and they are my favourite synths.
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Interesting… 
I find it difficult to chose between the two. AR is so powerfull for techno and MD so adapted to IDM, i find nor can do the duty of the other.
So different sounding. I bought AR for techno and i had put my MD on sale because it was, for my taste not for techno (mainly the kicks).
I kept MD last moment because it’s the best Elektron for IDM. But if i should keep only one, despite my old and truly love for MD, i would let it go.
I never try AR for IDM, not sure it would be pertinent. I will give it a try one day.
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Is the screen and edition with it not too hard ? Easy or complicate to mastered ?
I’m found of it’s rythmic capabilities
i did not buy it.
I thought you had one… so appealing
No I never said i was going to buy it
I was looking at Jomox again a few days ago as reminded when spotting Mike Parker uses the Xbase09. Do you have a solid example video/audio of the Alphabase you could recommend?
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I thought this was a good one with an Overstayer Modular channel.
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Here are some demos for anyone interested:
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Here’s a great video of the AB in action:
And here’s a recent jam I cooked up with AB on drum duties:
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Thanks all for these examples. Super helpful, much appreciated. 
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I don’t really see it like that, one of the things I love about the MD is that it’s not married to any particular genre, I’ve made garage, dub, techno and all kinds of other stuff using the MD it’s like a regular synth to me where it can be carved and molded into almost any kind of genre though it does take a little work not nearly as much as it takes to bend the AR into doing a variety of sounds.
I did really enjoy the AR I had it for about 10 years but I did end up parting with it to put the money towards modular drums, so now I have the OT and SP404mk2 for samples and the MDUW and Erica synths LXR2 eurorack module for drum synthesis and I’m much happier with that combo that the AR-MDUW-OT combo
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Alpha Base for the sound quality
Isla S2400 for the sampling, sound quality and ease of use.
Perkons for ease of use, sound quality, i/o and sequencer.
Elektron Digitakt for ease of use, sampling, Elektron sequencer, midi and sound quality.
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These were my first Machinedrum (non UW) tries,
pretty Techno I’d say, especially the second one 
Machinedrum UW for its sound, power, sampling/resampling, and overall versatility
Tanzbär for its raw analog sound
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If you want some beefy G1 kicks (and to save CPU), try a sine LFO as an oscillator - it goes plenty into audio range for kicks, and you get free crunch from the 24kHz control sampling rate. Also try setting the phase to a peak or valley instead of a zero crossing and retrigger it for a free transient.
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Cool trick, @license !!!
Nord Modular G1
Sine LFO used as an oscillator, modulated by a simple AD envelope (amp and pitch). Playing with the LFO phase looking for diff amount of attack click. No filters or FX used. Just G1 raw sound.
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