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Any of you use or are familiar with drum machines? I've always used my Yamaha Motif for drums but it's slow and tedious. I'm willing to shell out much more money for this than I did for my recording interface. Could go up to $1,000. But I'd drop more if there's a top notch one close-ish to that price.
 
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Are you talking pure drum machine or a pad controller type unit? If you are looking for a pad controller I would be looking at Native Instruments Maschine mk3($650). If you want a standalone & PC unit you could step up to the Maschine Plus($1399)


EDIT I ditched my push 2 when I switched back to cubase and was gonna replace it with a mk3 but ended up liking the empty space on my desk more. Really bites ableton locks the push 2 to live.
 
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Alex said:
Any of you use or are familiar with drum machines? I've always used my Yamaha Motif for drums but it's slow and tedious. I'm willing to shell out much more money for this than I did for my recording interface. Could go up to $1,000. But I'd drop more if there's a top notch one close-ish to that price.
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i recommend the elektron digitakt.

best drum machine/sampler you can buy. you can implement parts that operate on a conditional %, or musical basis( for instance you can make sure that something happens on hte 4th iteration of a phrase or even further), and have fill parts on top of an insane level of modulation that is literally unheard of if you want to take it to the next level.

it can be controlled from another controller as well if you need.

its also durable as fuck.
 
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jooka said:
Are you talking pure drum machine or a pad controller type unit?
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I'm looking for a less tedious way to record drums. Right now I play drums on my keyboard and it's a hassle. A way to automate beats and fills that are perfectly in time with my DAW configs would save me an immeasurable amount of time. I know there's plenty of cheap software that does this, but I want something that sounds high quality and is really customizable. Taking any and all suggestions.
 
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I use superior drummer 3 for pretty much everything mainly for the sample library that comes with it but will do pretty much what you want with an easy interface to drag and drop stuff and quantize it. After I got rid of my push 2 I found I really didn’t need it. It'll run as a plugin or standalone. It can be used very simple or advanced pending on how much time you want to put in to it
 
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Back in the 90s I had an Alesis drum machine. This thing was pretty kick ass and the thing that made the thing cool as shit was you programmed in a beat, blah, blah, but then you would press a fill button and it would do a drum fill. No matter when you did it even at a fucked up time. Then you could record whatever you did and it would play it on repeat, including the fill. Now I dont remember if you could set that thing up with a pedal to do it, but I think that this is what you are asking for right? Im sure any modern drum machine would be years ahead of that 90s tech and im sure it would integrate with your PC or mac like they were meant for each other.
 
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jooka said:
I use superior drummer 3 for pretty much everything mainly for the sample library that comes with it but will do pretty much what you want with an easy interface to drag and drop stuff and quantize it. After I got rid of my push 2 I found I really didn’t need it. It'll run as a plugin or standalone. It can be used very simple or advanced pending on how much time you want to put in to it
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After quite a bit of research it sounds like this is the ideal application for me. Many people compare it to Steven Slate Drums which is half the price, but it doesn't seem nearly as powerful. I think this is something I'm really going to invest the time into so I going for the better software is probably the better move.
 
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It’s definitely a very well put together piece of software. The sample libraries it comes with are just fantastic.

EDIT I’ve got the libraries on a second SSD that is dedicated just for that. Not a requirement but well worth it performance wise if you have one.
 
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Mesa Boogie about to face serious QA issues in the future? Who's ready for "vintage" pre-Gibson era amps?

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Gibson acquires Mesa/Boogie amps

The iconic amp brand will continue to manufacture products under its own name as well as become “Gibson’s Custom Shop for Amplifiers”
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Been looking into bass dirt pedals for my guitar.... Went to the guitar shop and tried out the EHX Nano Battalion bass overdrive / preamp, and damn does the thing sound nice on a detuned guitar. "Blend" knobs help so much with gain pedal stacking. I tried it along with the Deluxe Bass Big Muff, with the intention of just buying one, but liked the two together so much that I ended up buying both

So now I'm still playing my guitar in a two amp setup, those two pedals are going to a bass amp, and the other is an actual guitar amp with a VFE Merman (sweet tweakable Klon clone) going into an EHX Deluxe Big Muff Sovtek. Such a full awesome sound for being just a couple cheapo practice amps (new amps are next I swear I'm done buying pedals promise ma)
 
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jooka said:
It’s definitely a very well put together piece of software. The sample libraries it comes with are just fantastic.

EDIT I’ve got the libraries on a second SSD that is dedicated just for that. Not a requirement but well worth it performance wise if you have one.
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Damn all the best drum beats are part of add-on libraries.
 
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www.toontrack.com

MIDI PACKS

The heartbeat of your groove!
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Have you checked out the midi packs? Tons of stuff available if you just want pre made beats without buying more sample libraries. I have a few but mainly find it easy enough to do my own

EDIT I stumbled onto this the Microsoft store but ended up being pretty cool for $10. It's a video based class for superior drummer 3 called More Killer Drums Course By mPV. Have to buy it on the Microsoft store to get that price tho.
 
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jooka said:
www.toontrack.com

MIDI PACKS

The heartbeat of your groove!
www.toontrack.com www.toontrack.com

Have you checked out the midi packs? Tons of stuff available if you just want pre made beats without buying more sample libraries. I have a few but mainly find it easy enough to do my own

EDIT I stumbled onto this the Microsoft store but ended up being pretty cool for $10. It's a video based class for superior drummer 3 called More Killer Drums Course By mPV. Have to buy it on the Microsoft store to get that price tho.
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Yeah every one of those bundles are like $30. I can see myself dumping another $400 in these over time.
 
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Try out that video course, it does a good job of getting you into the nuts and bolts of SP3 that don't seem that intuitive at first but once you see it first hand it brings out how simple it is to make your own stuff.

They have pretty good sales as well so keep an eye out for those. The month before xmas was really good for the midi packs, which is why I grabbed a couple. Half off, stuff like that.
 
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Custom 24-08 - 2021

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New Custom 24-08 announced, if the bridge was the stop tail it would be perfect for me. Had some other interesting models announced last night as well.
 
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If i had a bunch of money that needed somewhere to go, pretty sure I'd get a PRS or Suhr.
 
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I want to play a Suhr so bad. I've never actually seen one in person that I could play.
 
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