I’ve been obsessed with the idea of adding modular drums to my modular. I’ve spent a lot of time in VCV rack messing around with how I’d incorporate modular drums into my rig. Eventually I’d like to turn my modular into a live performance kind of thing, however money is tight right now so if I were to buy more modules I’d have to part with a piece of gear. The (sort of) logical move would be to part with my Machinedrum UW and put that money towards the purchase. The second hand price of the MDUW seems to be between $1500-$2000ish so average would be say $1700, I would need approx $2500 to make the purchase so they would be a sizable chunk of it.
It’s a tough choice because I don’t at all dislike the machinedrum…quite the opposite I’m a big fan of it, I just wonder if I’d be happier or more productive with modular drums. And I was curious for some input from anyone else but myself.
My current set up is:
Machinedrum UW
Analog rytm
Octatrack
Analog four
Digitone
Pro 2
Moog grandmother
Virus ti polar
Korg minilouge XD
Twisted electrons acid 8
Novation ultranova
9U of eurorack
This is the drum modules/sequencer etc I’m thinking of getting, the circled part is what I don’t have yet:
So adding these drum modules and sequencer would obviously be awesome they are both super powerful drum synths and it would give me 14 voices of drums and a mixture of digital, analog and samples and the sequencer has a lot of features as well. So it’s not a bad choice at all but I really can’t clearly see if I’d be better off holding on to the MDUW.
Of course it’s all about preference and we can ask the usual questions, Do you use the Machinedrum, do you like the way it sounds and do you get along with it and the answers would all be yes but the overhanging question is would I enjoy and use and create more with the modular drum set up and I genuinely don’t know if this is GAS or a legitimate option. I know you guys can’t answer it for me but I’m looking for some feedback.
So what do you think? What would you choose?