Should I Bother Getting A Drum Machine?

This samplepack and this one are very nice replacements for the real 808 and 909 machines. There are tons of 808/909 samples floating around, but these are the best.

Here is the originial 6bit 909 hihat sample, streamed directly from the rom and converted to a 8bit wav by Colin Fraser

http://www.synthforum.nl/forums/attachmentā€¦mp;d=1202459579

awesome, iā€™m buyinā€™ 'em. i wonder why the .wavs are 5 bucks cheaper, though. i guess itā€™s b/c they didnā€™t have to be converted and b/c thereā€™s a lot of competition on that front.

i wonder if the 909s could be distorted internally w/in renoise, or if itā€™ll take a pluginā€¦

For those who are cheap, check out Drumatic and DR-Fusion

ā€¦ and Here are a variety of free drum vsts/synths at kvr

ā€¦ I still want a drum machine thoughā€¦ and even better than that, a full velocity affected electronic drum kit.

Maybe you should buy a Akai S3000 sampler or a MPC2000XL if you need the sequencer. Then you have full velocity affected programs with filter and ad(sr) envelope and you can add additional FX cards for onboard effects and extra filters.

Both units read a lot of types of sounds including .wav, so you can load the drumkits you now use in Renoise straight into the sampler. The S3000 is virtualy a synthesizer where you can put youā€™re own sounds in, the MPC has simpeler envelopes and misses some other features that the s3000 has, but (I donā€™t know if I can say this in public, but here we go) the MPC has one of the coolest sequencers ever built.

http://www.bs1records.com/studio.shtml

thereā€™s some old roland stuff free for download here, plus some breaks to chop up/abuse.

Honestly, Iā€™d just want the drum machine/kit for triggering sounds in Renoiseā€¦ that, and Iā€™ve used drum machines that have sick slider-mappable retrig on their drumsā€¦ good for doing messed up glitch stuff. Other than that, Iā€™ve never really had much use for drum machines, as these days, I can basically get any sound I like from various VSTs, soundfonts, and samples.

ā€¦ though I have heard that AKAI makes a wicked sampler ;)

Check the MPD series by akai: http://www.akaipro.com/prodMPD32.php Really cool midi controller based on the MPC interface.

Nice!

^^ the thing about the new model pictured above is that itā€™s the only model that has the note repeat function, just like on actual mpcs. last i checked, audiolines.com was selling display models of the mpd24 for like $109. thatā€™s in chicago though, and only the mpd32 has note repeat. but if you donā€™t care about that feature, itā€™s a steal.

I think spdk is right about that bassdrum. To make a digital bassdrum fat you need loads of compressors and effects to give it some caracter. In my opinion analoge has its own caracter so you can listen to it without being bored quickly.

Am I a caracter? Is this my real life?

Sweet! Are there any more direct-from-ROM samples floating around on the net?