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gunslinger_burrito wrote:cewl. Just to try and save myself some searching time... does anyone know if you can program weird time signatures in any of these? Odd times: 5/4, 7/8, etc....?

Most of the Boss or Alesis or Korg can but you have to double bpm and use swing and all kinds of drummer shenanigans... Start off with some reggy temps...

IIRC you can have time changes within one programmed song in that SR-16. i was playing drums in a dual bass band when i picked one of those up years ago, it was totally amusing programming my role in one of our songs in that thing. mess with a bit of EQ & reverb & it'd be totally easy to disguise it as live drumming in a recording. and that's coming from a drum machine junkie - i still have ten others + a few on my ipad.

If you're going the Alesis route, I've always preferred the HR-16 to the SR-16 by far. Also the Yamaha RX-5 is awesome and relatively cheap.

Man...I thinking about selling my NI Maschine and getting an Elektron Machinedrum sds uw+ mkii (did I get that right?).

The Zoom MRT-3B can do 2,3,4,5,6,7 time sigs, and is super easy to program. I used to have one. Sounds as good as everything else in it's price range.

kaeth wrote:If you're going the Alesis route, I've always preferred the HR-16 to the SR-16 by far.

the samples on the SR-16 have too much processing for my tastes...i prefer to have the option of adding reverb to drums rather than it being imposed. nowadays i do most of my drum programming in GarageBand, but the HR has a unique sound and i may bring it back to add trip-hop drums to some of my looping stuff.

get that HR16B if anything...the black one w/ the electronic sounds.

I would imagine that a drum machine/beat app would sound better than an alesis/boss drum machine with 20 year old tech

hollowhero wrote:I would imagine that a drum machine/beat app would sound better than an alesis/boss drum machine with 20 year old tech

Yeah...I already program some mean drums on the computer. I don't have a laptop though, and need a way to play shows eventually. When I saw Thrones, he had some kind of drum machine that looked kind of like a rack/mounted thing..... that stuff was pretty good sounding. Either that, or the massive-ness of his rig covered any weiner-ness of the drum sounds up.

gunslinger_burrito wrote:

hollowhero wrote:I would imagine that a drum machine/beat app would sound better than an alesis/boss drum machine with 20 year old tech

Yeah...I already program some mean drums on the computer. I don't have a laptop though, and need a way to play shows eventually. When I saw Thrones, he had some kind of drum machine that looked kind of like a rack/mounted thing..... that stuff was pretty good sounding. Either that, or the massive-ness of his rig covered any weiner-ness of the drum sounds up.

Dude... He uses a Roland MC 505... You can get the same drums for cheap in a Roland MC 303 or one of those Boss DR's I was talking about...

And the drum machine/beat apps are just trying to be 20+ year old tech so why not just get the original and leave your phone in your pocket...

the Life Aquatic wrote:Ipad or iPhone go with DM-1 or imaschine

if you've got an iPhone, dm1 is free and it has way more than I expected a free drum machine too. I've been using it a ton. My friend with an iPad2 showed me the ipad version and it's got even more!

Edit: how I'm using it: there's multiple patterns. So I program in the different parts of the song and then tell it how many times to play each pattern, and it plays them in order. I can also hold and just trigger certain patterns. So I've got it mostly programmed right now for a Earth-like drone song with really slow drums. Each part is a drum loop but I can progress the patterns to for different parts of the song. Pretty wild stuff for someone like me that's never programmed drums before.. And that's all in a free app!

The "hip hop" bass drum and snare on the SR-16 are totally badass. Set up a drum set with those, a tambourine, a snap, a clap, and three tuned cowbells and you're golden.

Zoom MRT-3 or MRT-3b
Amazingness.

mathias wrote:

the Life Aquatic wrote:Ipad or iPhone go with DM-1 or imaschine

if you've got an iPhone, dm1 is free and it has way more than I expected a free drum machine too. I've been using it a ton. My friend with an iPad2 showed me the ipad version and it's got even more!

Edit: how I'm using it: there's multiple patterns. So I program in the different parts of the song and then tell it how many times to play each pattern, and it plays them in order. I can also hold and just trigger certain patterns. So I've got it mostly programmed right now for a Earth-like drone song with really slow drums. Each part is a drum loop but I can progress the patterns to for different parts of the song. Pretty wild stuff for someone like me that's never programmed drums before.. And that's all in a free app!

How did you get DM1 for free???

Free on iPhone.