ilovefuzz.com

crochambeau wrote:What's your take on the Rhythm Wolf? It was so universally lambasted when it came out I couldn't help but lust after one.

I love the fact that drum machine talk has resulted in a conjoined thread.

I like the Rhythm Wolf; the build is very solid and you get those "analog" drum sounds many are shooting for; the only downsides are the tuning issues for the bass and the "loudness" of the unit. A tuning tool is available for download and if you pay through a mixer you can "fix" the volume issue. If you apply FX it only gets better. And another thing, raising the filter resonance on the bass the drops volume quite a bit making a mixer that much more important.

Maschine is one of the best things to happen to me. I mostly record and write at home and it's turned into my sketch pad for coming up with ideas and arranging. I also use an Arturia SparkLE to switch things up a little bit. When I play out and want to use my loops I load them up onto my JamMan Stereo instead of dragging a computer, interface, and Maschine along just to use them as a playback device.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAyjcONJcaY[/youtube]

I am really interested in this to use with sequences and clip launching. Although the machine has a really awesome interface, basically because it's a colorful MPC

Sigh, I just want a good multi tracks recorder that lets me do sampling things to it like slicing and such. I'm so adverse to Ableton because I always get distracted/I want to be able to work away from my computer area and go where all of my music equipment is.
My hope right now is that Zoom/Alesis/etc makes a more modern portastudio type of deal, the ones out right now (well, since the last time I checked) were godawful.

I guess that's the thing with you, my computer is connected to everything so I have to be infront of the computer to play anything essentially. If you want that then an MPC 1000, or MachineDrum would be my choice. Octatrack is lame as just a drum machine, Tempest is cool but has a very specific sound palette, Rytm is interesting but the pads feel like shit and the analog sound isn't that much special.

Everything has a weakness you choose what weakness is more meaningless to you.

I should just get push and then have my wallet mad at me for the rest of the year.

So I just got the TR8 today, and at first I thought I was only able to have a full 16 step pattern and was kinda bummed. & then I found the last step button which lets me choose less, which made me happy but was still a little bummed it didn't work the way active step does on the Volca. & then I realized you can have both A & B patterns at different step lengths and run them consecutively. Now I am no longer bummed, but excited.

I haven't gotten a chance to really dig into it yet, but first impressions are good.
I want to get a WMD Acoustic Trauma stat, though.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrjMGY2EXTo[/youtube]

that sounds thick.

this helped me a lot: http://blog.rolandcorp.com.au/index.php ... aira-tr-8/
the actual manual is kind of shitty/leaves out a bunch of stuff.

Thnxbby I'm really excited to get home from work and dive into it deeper. I was able to get some good stuff going right out of the box but learned my way around some of the functions is gonna take some time.

Also I got Delay mode 2 oscillating (just before going crazy) over a beat yesterday and it sounded so cool, I don't know what kind of modulation that is but it sounds really cool in that context.

and the thread is now complete for me. Thanks for all your input fellas!

You're welcome?

Fuck.

Ruiner wrote:and the thread is now complete for me. Thanks for all your input fellas!

where is this machine made?