I loaded up the demo, tried a few presets, and immediately wondered why the videos didn’t use these instead. This thing can sound great.
I think it took me less than 15 minutes to get comfortable with the basics of the UI, make a jam I quite liked, and decide to take them up on the flash sale.
No. Quite far from it. you have 24 identical, but very flexible, analog-style drum voices in Attack. Machinedrum has, well, “machines”, that use all kinds of algorithms for their drum creation. Also, the thing with Machinedrum is the extremely tight coupling between machines and the sequencer. If you want something Machinedrum-like (but still quite different) in software, it’s either UnfilteredAudio Battalion or Fors Opal that gets closest in spirit, though not in sound.
If anything, Attack is a great complement to Machinedrum.
@presteign Just a quick one (don’t want to derail this thread) but you may want to take a look at Bingo drum machine - Okay Synthesizer | Digital Music Instruments & Eurorack Modules - as it has drum synth engines and Elektron-style parameter locking.
I think there’s also 50% off at the moment, see here for a code - Okay Synthesizer - Bingo Drum Machine/Synth Plugin - #17 by okaysynthesizer
I wish they would!
short pattern i did with 6 tracks on attack3 (raw, nothing external except sequencing with digitone midi), thought it would be interesting to show as i can agree that lots of the showcases of these kinds of synths/plugins really do not do them justice lol…