Is it just me, or does the analog portion of this drum machine sound like a cheap Boss Dr Rhythm?
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It’s pretty close to the one thing I want that I really feel is missing in the market currently. A simple drum machine that can also do bass and has some individual outs so the bass can be processed separately. I know most drum machines can do bass in some form but I love the idea of a drum machine that also has a proper bass synth.
Not convinced by the result though. But it might turn out to be great some day
Was looking forward to this.
Looks like I’ll be saving money here, real let down 
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My initial reaction as well. I’m not particularly interested in samples and I was hoping for a best-of-korg-drum-synthesis-plus-logue-sdk machine.
But if this didn’t have sample playback capability there’d be a bunch of people whining about that too.
I think it’s too early to pass judgment. Need to hear more demos and see what people get out of it. I’m sure it’s plenty capable, but I’m fine with 
for now. I don’t actually need more drum machines (though I do love them all).
Also, I had basically written it off as vaporware at this point, so I’m positively surprised to see it released.
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I have a hard time to understand the price.
I know, perhaps are luxury consumer goods too cheap anyway, but compared to tr-8s I can’t understand.
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I thought it sounded good, crisp, clear and nice FX, though I wouldn’t drop 600 on it. Down the line when 2nd hand prices drop I think it could be a good first drummachine for people wanting to get in the game.
I don’t what track record Korg got with major updates, but improved sampling time + memory and/or a chord mode would be really nice. The synth sounded really good.
Let’s just hope they give it more love than the SQ-64 
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I think the combination of real analogue and samples and a synth engine maybe make it more of a Syntakt challenger than a TR8S challenger? If it hits sub £500 street in the UK it may be a big hit although a agree it needed more than 1 SDK engine
The SDK engine won’t run exiting SDK plugins apparently (it’s a different engine!) so that will piss off people who already have bought in to that ecosystem!
Stereo samples gives it some advantage of the Digitak I guess…it’s a mixed bag!
Before anyone gets too excited the delivery on Thomann (the only placed its advertised for now) is ‘‘In stock within 10-13 weeks’’
It’s a beautiful looking device but seems really underwhelming to me tbh. A modded Electribe seems like it would have more power/flexibility for a lower price. Three lanes sharing one voice for the user engine and six sample only voices are a huge L imo. The best stuff korg does is when they focus on extremes. Either hyper geeky deep overkill products like the opsix, modwave, or xd; or cute friendly bite sized or otherwise minimalist stuff like the volcas or arguably the original logues.
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Only 34mb sample memory? 4 boring analog voices with narrow parameters?
What is even the point of this thing’s existence?
Why did they pick samples over the Volca Drum synth engine? Could’ve been competition to SynTakt… oh well, I’m no marketing and design genius.
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…and why didn’t Electron put a sample engine on the Syntakt! No one eve seems to get it quite right…but if they can add even a basic sample engine to the Syntakt it will be pretty close to perfect for me 
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Something in me says that you are not very enthoustiastic about the Drumlogue 
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Lol yeah, it definitely belongs on this channel:
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giving it a little bit of thought now and becoming more and more underwhelmed. Why is noone even trying to get it right these days. This Drumlogue Thing seems like a Design Mess to me.
I mean Syntakt come on you at least have the chance to make this thing right if you want to. capitalism is ending anyway so please add machines and sampling and everyone is is kissing your feet.
I couldn’t care less about sampling on Syntakt hehe. Would prefer a proper portamento over sampling tbh. Different people want different things
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Tough crowd
I think it seems alright, a selection of different drum engines, separate outs, built in fx, plenty of voices.
I guess time will tell if it ends up being a success.
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it appears to be a total shambles in every aspect 
to me, at least
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There is good stuff around already. Shure rytm is much more expensive but way more flexible. Sounds better, samples can be layerd. It can sample directly…and and and. Was really hoping for the digital voices in this Drumlogue thing but one? Buy one LXR-02 and you got 6 for less money.
But I would rather have everything in one and choose. Machines over Machines in Syntakt. I´ll pay. But I don´t buy Box after Box.