Drum Machines
 

I know some of you on the board use them and I would appreciate any feedback. I'm interested in purchasing an affordable yet decent and easy-to-use one but I know almost nothing about them. So... What do you use? How much was it? What should I buy just to get started? Etc., go wild. Thank you.

This site might be fun.

Sorry I can't help more.

Thank you, very cool link. I think I'm going to busy with that for awhile. I was just reading about the history of drum machines on wikipedia.

The Alesis SR-16 is a good unit. I got mine for about 80.

Here is why I chose it:
ease of programming (super easy)
4 outputs
footswitch for fill and start/stop (start stop is really the important one, I never use the fill footswitch)
A bunch of sounds
midi
pressure sensitive pads


the SR-16 has a lot of the features that are on newer drum machine models, and since it is 15 years old or so, you can pick them up cheap.

Sounds really cool, thanks. By the way, yr spectral presence stuff sounds neat live.

Thx :)

I'm trying to figure out how to make good non-live recordings. Haven't figured it out yet.

Dude, I'll play drums for you....calm down.

Which one of us are you talking to?

unjammer....I'll do the same for you if yr interested.

Oooooh, really?! Hehe.

A friendly joke of course.