Machinedrum on the way!

The Lounge General Discussion
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MAN I am excited. I’ve now watched every frigging YouTube there is of it.

I’m pretty sure I’m really going to love the thing. Got the full-blown model too.

Sold my Tempest to fund this purchase, and I truly hope the buyer goes to happier places with it than I did. (Big thanks to anigbrowl, hope you love it :+1: )

And thanks to everyone who gave me advice over at the old forum when I was debating selling the Tempest.

Oh, man… I can hardly wait.

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You’re going to have so much fun:) The cool thing (for me) with the machinedrum is you can start using it right away, but you will discover new things constantly. It a weird combination of immediacy and deepness.

Have fun dude:)

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I got a MD about a month ago. You are going to love it!

There are some really great hidden tricks to discover too. For example the ability to hold the FUNCTION button while tweaking a parameter, which will tweak the same parameter for all sounds at the same time. You can also tweak parameters like crazy and then hit the CLASSIC/EXTENDED button while holding FUNCTION button to ‘snap back’ to the saved version of the drum kit in an instant. Very cool stuff to be discovered.

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Good stuff man. I just sold my Tempest as well and I had a MDUW in the past.

I am trying to stick to just the OT and A4 but damn I would love a MDUW again.

You will love it!!

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:slight_smile: Yeeeeeep

So it came, and it’s a new day.
First thoughts were comparing Tempest and MD, and I will miss the tactile, hands-on playability of the Tempest. Also the familiarity, I knew that thing really well, but I’ll soon get over that. I can see possibly buying it again some day.

I spent some time just going through the MD’s preset patterns and they’re great. From watching vids over and over, and having had an OT for two years, I had a pretty good idea of basic operations and had lots of fun right out of the box. Next step is to load a bunch of samples into it, and see how that goes.

If I could have just kept the Tempest, I MIGHT have done, but some points to consider:

  • 16 voices over 6: no contest. I totally understand why, but 6 was really a pain.
  • Plocks: no contest. You can practically orchestrate a single rhythm track with relative ease.
  • Digital as all hell? Well, sure. I instantly got a little misty from having had the Tempest for so long. But it is a good sound, and there are ways to offset that if one desires. It doesn’t really bother me.

End of the day, the MD does more of what I wanted a dedicated drum machine for. It’s a hard, bangin’-ass force to reckoned with. Big, subwoofer-destroying kicks? OH yes - watch out! Anything I want besides the MD, I can use the OT for now.

Okay, time to make some coffee and rhythmic insanity…