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drum machine talk

street_muzikstreet_muzik 3,919 Posts
edited August 2005 in Strut Central
What are your favorites. Best bass, snare, sequencer, etc. My first was the Akai XR10 I picked it up in '91, used for $150. I wish I still had it. The beats were clunky at the time, but it taught me to program, the hard way. One day my hommie brought over his TR808 connected to an Ensoniq or E-mu keyboard. I don't remember which. That shit was bumpin. We sampled all kinds of crazy shit with the 808 pumpin' out the bass. The Roland style step writing is cool. I always liked that. When I got my 1200s i faded away from the drum machine. Now I have a groovebox. I use it as a sequencer, but the drums never sounded right to me, maybe because they're samples and you can't tune them the same way you can with the TR808. Times have changed with software drum machines and samplers making pretty much any emulation possible, but I miss those beatboxes.

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  • blaqsoulblaqsoul 61 Posts

    got 'em in '89 & '90 respecitvely.
  • m_dejeanm_dejean Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut. 2,946 Posts


    This was my first drum machine. Roland is my shit when it comes to drum machines. I've had other models from Yamaha, Alesis and so on, but I always return to the Roland sound.
  • hertzhoghertzhog 865 Posts
    I had some Boss drum machines, the best one being a Dr-5. I don't really miss them as sequencers or sources for sound, but the synth capabilities of the dr-5, however cheesy, were pretty dope. I'm obviously content with my MPC, but something about the portability and simplicity of the machines I had kinda makes me wish I wouldn't have sold all of them.
  • DubiousDubious 1,865 Posts
    i picked both of these up from a yardsale a few years back for 20 bones each.





    i still use the casio all the time... the built in sounds are chunky to hell (house claps for days) and the sampler is awesome for really pharty kicks.

    but these days it's all about:

  • burndontfreezeburndontfreeze 28 Posts

    but these days it's all about:


    since i use my comp only to record, my knowledge of programs is a bit lacking. is this a program filled with sounds, or is this your personal .wav collection?
  • DIGGADIGGADIGGADIGGA 456 Posts

    NEVER DIE...
  • DubiousDubious 1,865 Posts

    since i use my comp only to record, my knowledge of programs is a bit lacking. is this a program filled with sounds, or is this your personal .wav collection?

    samples from those machines.. all the individual hits.


  • burndontfreezeburndontfreeze 28 Posts

    since i use my comp only to record, my knowledge of programs is a bit lacking. is this a program filled with sounds, or is this your personal .wav collection?

    samples from those machines.. all the individual hits.


  • spcspc 534 Posts
    My favorites are:

    Oberheim DMX
    Boss DR-202
    Roland TR 808 /909
    Roland CR-78
    Linn Linndrum
  • spcspc 534 Posts
    Here is the small collection I made for myself, mostly with pictures (for the gear porn heads

    http://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ZEPBD69ITPYN02IOCTYM6R8R3
  • street_muzikstreet_muzik 3,919 Posts

    NEVER DIE...

    DAMN!!!!! That's clean.
  • mrpekmrpek 627 Posts
    I used to mess with some of the Boss Dr. series samplers my friends dad had when we were young.. I like some of the Korg stuff I have messed with but I love my MPC... ... Anybody know what Drum Machine was used for the "Sucker M.C.s" beat ?Those snares are still some of the hottest ::
  • m_dejeanm_dejean Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut. 2,946 Posts
    Anybody know what Drum Machine was used for the "Sucker M.C.s" beat ?Those snares are still some of the hottest ::

    I'm pretty sure it's the



    with a truckload of reverb for that extra boom.
  • awallawall 673 Posts


    i had both of these back in the day. i got the 505 at a music store and then "upgraded" to the 707 when i found it for $5 at a yard sale. both fun machines that i wish i still had.

    i have one of those collections of vintage drum machine sounds too...you can get CDRs of them on ebay for $10.
  • dizzydizzy 11 Posts
  • alieNDNalieNDN 2,181 Posts
    my best friend, the boss 770

  • NewLifeTrioNewLifeTrio 271 Posts
    Anybody know what Drum Machine was used for the "Sucker M.C.s" beat ?Those snares are still some of the hottest ::

    I'm pretty sure it's the



    with a truckload of reverb for that extra boom.

    The DMX snare kills me every time. Oh so chunky.
  • CaMKIIaCaMKIIa 269 Posts
    my first one was


    nowadays i'm using mainly the mpc, and about to drop some money on a new computer, and planning on replacing the mpc with

  • snosno 332 Posts
    I wish I could have more space in my room for hardware drum machines...Alas, My fave (software) drum machine is this combo:



    Plus

  • MassiveMassive 194 Posts
    Anybody know what Drum Machine was used for the "Sucker M.C.s" beat ?Those snares are still some of the hottest ::

    I'm pretty sure it's the



    with a truckload of reverb for that extra boom.

    I've been shopping for one of these for eons. I can't find one anywhere.
  • dust_chopperdust_chopper 39 Posts
    I wish I could have more space in my room for hardware drum machines...Alas, My fave (software) drum machine is this combo:



    PLUS



    ALTHOUGH I WISH BATTERY WILL SOON HAVE NOTE OFF AND TIMESTRETCHING ABILITY
  • BrianBrian 7,618 Posts
    I wish I could have more space in my room for hardware drum machines...Alas, My fave (software) drum machine is this combo:



    Plus

    Do you like Trigger Finger? I was thinking about picking it up..
  • snosno 332 Posts
    Yes. Trigger Finger is one great piece of MIDI controller (Played a gig two weeks ago in Taiwan using nothing but Trigger Finger, Live 5 hosting Battery 2 and Elektrik Piano and Reason 3). Much better than Akai's MPD16.

    I like it so much I am retiring my Oxygen 8.

    Down side is that the construction of knobs and faders are rather filmsy. So be careful with them knobs and faders, and the Enigma editor (to edit the MIDI parameters of the controller) is very difficult to use.
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