Korg Drumlogue

Analog voices, samples, probability, polymeters, all kind of effects, a synth…

It has it all. And sounds good to me. People complaining about 32mb of storage… You know that when you purchase it, you’ve seen the videos, you’ve read the manual, you’ve heard it on YouTube multiples times…

Why then people are complaining so much? If I’m going to spend the money in that machine I know what it is, what it does and how it sound. I don’t want to waste money in useless machines :slight_smile:

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haha yes when he finds the boost effect… His reaction is funny.

That was like the defining moment and all I needed to hear!

I mean I already own pulsar23 , er1mk2, lxr02 and more, but Drumlogue is going to be so good to work with!!!

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Not to sound like a broken record if you’re read the thread through, but Drumlogue is one of my favorite drum machines since wrapping it via my MIOXL and only using its onboard sequencer… and that’s after months of just plain hating it (and hating ON it).

As a semi-standard drum machine, it’s bonkers, particularly at sub-400. It hurt them making it the initial price, then firmware-abandoning it despite plenty of good suggestions EVERYWHERE (corp doesn’t read ‘everywhere’ usually though).

Probably would have come off better just NOT having user-loadable samples on it. It doesn’t technically need it if you know how to program it (which is super-easy and the menu-diving, while it exists, is quite similar part-to-part… so I find it really fast to dial in). And I adore its stereo-field placement… it’s hard to describe other than: I can get each part sitting in its own spot so fast and the result sounds wonderful through a good system.

And I agree with that one dev (I know they exist) on the drumlogue development team that kept saying “this needs to use the same SDK as the other ‘logue’ bits… PLEASE!!!” --> they were right.

It’s getting less use since getting the DT2 for now though, but it’ll make a comeback I think. I come up with completely different grooves on its sequencer than the DT, so it hasn’t been replaced or anything.

EDIT/Addition: Despite its tiny sample storage, I do prefer the WAY you load samples: just a drive mount. That’s super-easy to use and I genuinely prefer it to anything else I’ve got that uses sampes.

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And the slightly odd panting sounds :biking_man::hot_face:

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Would love to pair those pants with these drums :robot::biking_man::robot:

Oh please no…

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I have a question for people who has drumlogue. I understand that you have 128 factory samples onboard and you have space for another 128 ( up to total storage, 32mb I assume).

My question is can you delete the factory samples to have your own 256 samples? Thanks and sorry for the English…

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So you can’t do that Amy, BUT…
When you load your own samples, you place them in a directory called Samples, which will hold 128 samples.
You can then also create a subdirectory under Samples called Expansion (Samples/Expansion), which then will also hold another 128 samples.

This will give you the 256 you’re after. :slight_smile:

Interestingly enough, I’d forgotten this, or maybe didn’t even know about it until investigating your question.

I don’t load samples in to it personally, but I might now, just to… you know… do it. 256 is certainly far more usable if you can keep it under the 34MB (yes, 34 for some reason) limit.

Now that I remember this, I might use the two directories (with different selection namespaces in the drumlogue UI) to separate sample types a bit more usably.

One of the other reasons I did load many samples is because the naming convention is restrictive over time (from a maintenance point of view) and you can’t have any other subdirectories to help organize.:

  • you can’t have a sub directory like BD, SD, etc…
  • you just have names like 000_BD_My_Kick.wav through 128_SD_My_Snare.wav. --> Good luck if you want to add another BD for organization but you have 000_BD - 011_BD taken, followed by 012_TOM… ugh: renaming everything to match this requirement is annoying and I won’t personally ever do it. Should have left the ‘XXX_’ numbering OFF, Korg. Just sort alphabetically like a good little programmer.

Also, those numbers are required. Leaving them off tells the drumlogue to delete the sample. MAYBE you could call all of them 000_blah - 000_blah128, but I haven’t tried that. Falling back to Korg’s apparent inability to sort alphabetically without a counter that makes sense seems like a bad idea.

Ugh: so many things I really suspect the devs were like: wait, what? That’s odd.
And then promptly overruled by the non-technical or the speed of the release date.

In any event, I’d suggest leaving a buffer in counting for each sample type, if you’re organizing them that way.
Meaning: Use something like 000_BD_name - 020_BD_other_name, even if you’re only loading 12 BD samples, so you can load more BD samples without having to rename the counters for everything following when you go to do that.

Hope this helps.
And your English is fine. Better than most other Englishers, lol.

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Thank you very much… I’ve read several times your answer and please correct me if I’m wrong:

  • The onboard korg samples are apart from the 34 mb total storage and can’t be deleted.

  • You can have up to 256 user samples in the 34 mb storage plus the factory samples

Naming convention is a bit weird, you’re right, if I want to add more samples between 11 and 12 it seems a lot of work …

Thank you for your detailed answer :slight_smile:

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You are corect on both :smiley:

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Thank you!! Well, 256 samples is a lot!! I’m going to use it for short stuff… Thank you!!

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You’re welcome

Yeah, 256 is a wonderful discovery.
Thank YOU for getting me to look.

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Hey guys if you wanted to , look up “bulk rename utility” - this is what I would use to make numbered prefixes on files pretty quickly. But be careful, if you use it, make sure to backup the folder you are working in case you mess up - but there is a preview before it renames everything.

EDIT- that’s just for windows, but im sure there’s other apps you can hopefully find to help

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I’ll second the recommendation for bulk rename utility. It’s incredible for this kind of thing.

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sounds interesting indeed

The Drumlogue just arrived! Time to cook!

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Mine has been delivered! Unfortunately at work for another 3 hours! lol

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Maybe you wanna check the Kraken cookbook first :octopus:. Just kidding, have fun!

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Mine has arrived!! Build quality better than expected, good weight, and very bright lights.
Kick sounds very good.

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