I was wondering if any one knew any good drum machines for building Breakbeats, Industrial or Trip Hop? And also, does any one know a good (the best) drum machine for building a good acoustic kit solo or fill?

industrial - visco space drums through distortion pedal sound lush.

The best drummachine i know is the Elektron Machinedrum. You can make from realistic acoustic sounds to the highest experimental noises. Test the samples of it in my site. They are a little bit experimental, but you can get an idea.

for a wide variety of electronic sounds (it can sorta kinda do acoustic) then I definetely recommend Waldorf Attack too, it's crazy.

DR-008, being both a sampler and synth, covers both bases perfectly.
http://www.kvr-vst.com/inst.php?inst=85

I'm kinda looking for soft synth drumkits, so I can use them in a VST program.

DR-008 is a VST-compatible soft synth for drums

DR-008 is exactly what you need.

Waldorf Attack is a VSTi and its a great machine.

My favorite drum machine is my Emu XL-7 with the World, Sounds of the ZR, and the Techno expansion ROMs. With 128 MEG and over 2000 patches it covers about anything. It also allows a variety of methods for programming rhythms.

Robert

another vote for dr008 here ...

... cheers rob

STM I think the deciding balance on what you should go for is on your whole interest in drum kits, if have a huge interest you should already have collected quite a considerable amount of drum samples, to which the DR-008 will compliment nicely, however on the flipside to this, Attack can offer sounds which without very extensive processes, can't be reproduced via sampling (mainly the LFO based stuff), secondly, as a drum synth it offers an unlimited variety of sounds and is relatively straight forward; it ships with lots of very practical kits and even has a randomly generated mode. This is why I am recommending Attack, as although samples go a long way, synthesis can go even further.

of coarse DR-008 also has synthesis as well as sampling,.

another vote for 008.

pricer wrote:

STM I think the deciding balance on what you should go for is on your whole interest in drum kits, if have a huge interest you should already have collected quite a considerable amount of drum samples, to which the DR-008 will compliment nicely, however on the flipside to this, Attack can offer sounds which without very extensive processes, can't be reproduced via sampling (mainly the LFO based stuff), secondly, as a drum synth it offers an unlimited variety of sounds and is relatively straight forward; it ships with lots of very practical kits and even has a randomly generated mode. This is why I am recommending Attack, as although samples go a long way, synthesis can go even further.

Oops. I missed the second post that revealed that you actually want a software sampler/synth rather than a drum machine. If you want to make your own drum kits make sure you get a solution that supports drag and drop kit building. It makes life much easier. If you want a blend of samples and synth the DR-008 is the only product I know that has both. I have Battery, DR-008 and RM III and am happy with each of them. Which one I use depends on what I want to get out.

Robert