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popvulture wrote:

coldbrightsunlight wrote:On the analog thing, are analog drum machines not kind of inherently dance music oriented? Not that it's a bad thing or that the sounds can't work well in other music.

Well, yes and no, I suppose? I mean, lots of that stuff is indeed dancefloor ready but it's also heavily used in plenty of industrial, hip hop, indie rock, and plenty of way more esoteric ambient/IDM-y things.

I think the big key takeaway for me in owning and subsequently selling a Drumbrute was that analog drum machines, really almost ALL of them, can be pretty dry, uninspiring, and lifeless without effects. A little reverb, delay, and dirt are pretty much crucial. I ended up moving to the Rytm for two reasons—1, built in effects, and 2—the ability to integrate or replace the analog sounds with samples if desired. It really makes for a ton more variety in one box. You can most certainly do tons and tons of things with another drum machine plus whatever effects you want, but I just found it very nice to have it all in one place.

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I think if I were trying to make something sound like real drums, I'd just use a DAW. This is pretty much what I do all the time when I write more rocky/poppy stuff in Logic, and it's always been pretty perfect for doing that job.