What's your all-time favourite DRUM Machine?

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#21

Vermona drm-1 mk3 into MD

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#22

AR :revolving_hearts: Boum

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#23

Iā€™m not sure but I would say the TR-909 or the 707.

I like the 707 a lot because of its sequencer in song mode, the 12 bit samples and the 909 for the sound. (The only cons in the 909 is that itā€™s not possible to save patterns in a cartridge)

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#24

AR Mk1 for me too.
I would like to try a Mk2 (black) to take advantage of full usb/overbridge streaming (now that I have a re-configured, cleaned Sync-Lock),

#25

808

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#26

Iā€™m going to ask them if they will take Ā£100.

And if they will make an exception and ship to Belgium.

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#27

Roland TR8-S <3

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#28

SOMA Pulsar-23

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#29

Still not owned one that I liked enough to keepā€¦this thread is giving me a few to try

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#30

Machinedrum. Absolutely beautiful piece of kit. Sample capability only made it more capable(but by no means was necessary)

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#31

MachineDrum is still the only drum machine I still really regret not having anymore. After that AR, then maybe the LXR-02 though itā€™s still so new(havenā€™t tried a Pulsar-23)

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#32

TR8S has been the one for a couple years now but this Erica LXR-02 is really turning heads in my live setup.

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#33

I knew when I sold mine that I would miss it and wouldnā€™t be able to get it back.

I donā€™t regret selling it, but it would certainly be nice to play around with it now and then

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#34

Another one for the TR-8S but the original Korg Electribe ER-1 is a very close second.

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#35

ā€¦mpc 3000ā€¦

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#36

ā€¦a4ā€¦

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#37

Drumbrute, when I sold it.

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#38

Machinedrum is the most fun Iā€™ve experienced playing an electronic instrument.

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#39

Gonna go with DFAM as it has been on every track i made ever since i got it Ā± 4 years agoā€¦

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#40

I think the plumbutter has shaped my musical outlook the most by far

  • the rollz as a trigger sequencer is pretty ingenious. Itā€™s basically a series of interconnected low frequency oscillators, even-numbered are stable, odd numbered are chaotic. They patch together via ā€œandrogynous nodesā€, and your control is kind of limited by which rollz you choose to inject into the patch. You can get sort of looping, evolving pseudorhythms, relabi. Itā€™s changed the way I look at drums, and Iā€™m now more open to asynchronous loops and polyrhythms that rarely/never converge on the ā€œoneā€. Running the rollz right into the ultrasound filter is a really cool percussive element.

  • Itā€™s also a great instrument for drone, just watch any hainbach video

  • The only thing about this one is that the sound is very idiosyncratic, and if you donā€™t like the clicks and cuts type sound it wonā€™t be for you. I think the best way to get a similar type of rhythms in other devices would be to use several percussion loops that are triggered at intervals and modulated in a number of ways, which you can do in any DAW/Sampler

  • Itā€™s expensive, but its own musical world. I sadly donā€™t have one right now, but have been most productive making music when I have had it. Hoping to do something similar with pulsar

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