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Right, if you're looking to program your own sounds, forget anything Roland, I agree. On the other hand, there's such a variety of sounds on board, I've yet to even feel the need for editing the sounds. The Korg stuff is solid, but I rely too much on odd time signatures, and I feel it's a crime to not have built in that functionality. But this brings up a point that I still kind of fight. I used to spend hours doing sound design. Tweaking my Korg DW8000 or Roland Juno 106 until the cows came home. While it was great fun, I started to realize how much time it took away from me actually playing. Sure, if I was independently wealthy, and didn't have to put time into maintaining a relationship and having a social life, I'd be all over sound design. Something had to go, and that was it. Luckily, there's some really great gear with huge libraries of sounds. When I bought my Roland XV-5050, it took me weeks to fill my preset bank with the 128 sounds I liked. Sure, I did tweak them all a little, but not building them from scratch, that's for sure. One day, when I retire I'll buy what ever knob ridden monstrosity exists at the time, and tweak tweak tweak, but until then, I've got to get some actual playing in. I'll conceder the people at Roland my collaborators until then. Mark Sottilaro On Sunday, June 9, 2002, at 11:25 AM, Eric Williamson wrote: > i would strongly recommend you stay away from _any_ of the new > (post-1995) Roland drum machines. they have impenetrable user > interfaces for real-time rhythm composition and rely too heavily on the > Sound Canvas synthesis engine for my taste. sorry mark, i'd never buy > your mc307. > > if 4/4, 3/4, 4/4 triplet feel are all you need, get a Korg Electribe > ER-1. they're > plenty cheap, and feature direct control over the percussion synthesis > and > realtime knob record. a good deal for 2 hundred bucks. > > if you have more money, i'd go for an Elektron Machinedrum. i spent > about > 5 hours with one in my studio last week and boy am i in love! this > thing is > just the bizzomb. all sorts of percussion synthesis, knob record (better > than on the ER-1), anywhere from 1 to 32 steps per bar, great effects, > and > very high quality build. you get what you pay for, which would be about > eleven hundred dollars. > > those are my two favourites. yeah i know they're a little extreme on > both > sides, but those are the two most immediately accessible and > programmable drum machines on the market. very easy to mute parts > and write new ones. > > no spending an hour trying to get into EDIT mode and still not finding > it > (true story. roland groovebox sp505). these two have excellent > interfaces. i > think that the Jomox xBase09 has a good interface, but i've never played > one. > > Eric Williamson > www.suitandtieguy.com >