Drum Machine

hjnewcomb · Joined: Mar 30, 2006 Posts: 18 Location: suffolk

in a fairly new electro acoustic etc band

im looking for a cheap as pos hardware drum machine

with sequencer on board as well maybe so i can save beats onto it from mac and maybe bass line too ?

and change them live atm i have been looking at stuff like that.. Boss DR202 Dr Groove bt that went on ebay at 77 in the end....

im a young student cheapskate....

hoping for sumthing around 30... any1 got any ideas..

thanks again guys..

H

Mohoyoho · Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 6:28 am Post subject:

See if you can find a good deal on a Yamaha RM1X. That should do all that you request.

machinefunk · Joined: May 01, 2006 Posts: 10 Location: uk

For that kind of money I would think the only thing you'll be able to get would be like a TR505.

x0x · Joined: Feb 22, 2006 Posts: 19 Location: St Louis

$30 will not get you much. Even a 707 is above a hundred dollars these days.

deknow · Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 8:37 am Post subject:

...you might find an alesis hr-16 for that price, and for that price they are pretty good....plus, the manual is printed right on the darn thing!

deknow

seraph · Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 9:39 am Post subject:

ewblank · Joined: Mar 09, 2006 Posts: 52 Location: Montreal, Canada

I'm not sure you're going to find that in one unit, but this might work for you: The Roland TR-505 mentioned earlier usually goes for under $100, and has a midi-out, which isn't a feature the lower-cost drum machines (ie: zoom) on the market. You can sync that up with a Yamaha SU10 - which is a tiny midi-enabled sampler.

I think you could probably get a half decent drum/bass/ sample set up with these for under $150. It won't sound like Aphex Twin or Chemical Brothers - but it'll work. If you have any other cash, I'd also invest an a cheap multi-FX unit for the TR-505 - and the sounds on it are not tweakable and can usually use some help.

Good luck.

mosc · Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 10:13 am Post subject:

Yes, the HR 16 was really a hot device in its day. I had one too. Still have it in fact...

http://www.synthmania.com/alesis_hr-16.htm

jksuperstar · Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 12:46 pm Post subject:

Is your MAC a laptop? or portable? Can you get all your sounds from samplers, VSTs, or AU on the MAC?

That'd save you a bunch of $$, and unless you need the hardware interface, you could do everything on the MAC.

At least, that's the cheapest way to do things.

X-Electric · Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 11:27 am Post subject:

Don't forget about cheap QY-20 and similiar by Yamaha. They're just a simple music notepads with XG(?) sample set, but they're pretty usefull. 28k note onboard sequencer, MIDI IN/OUT, 8 part multitimbral and they go waaay below $100. Could work well as a drum machine, with sequencing possibilities. (AFAIK it works in pattern mode).