Free standalone drum machine??
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 3257 posts since 28 Dec, 2007
Once again I'm charged with the task of finding something for a muso colleague with NO experience of creating music on a PC.
He wants a drum machine and is willing to pay, but I think it would be best for him to try out some free stuff and suss things out before deciding what he wants to commit to.
So, I think the idea of suggesting a host and Vsts is a long way off!
Ideas so far to introduce are hammerhead, leafdrums2, Tuareg2 and dLusion drumstation...... with my thoughts swinging towards leafdrums2 cos it seems foolproof ( and yet versatile .... and would be more so if reverb was an option in the fx menu. ) .... very straightforward!
How would any of you guys go about this task? Were talking about a digital prog virgin here, he's a fairly intelligent lad, but then so am I ....and I know fine well that it took me a lot of hair pulling, chin scratching and random key hitting on the way to gaining the knowledge I now enjoy!
Am I missing something? Is there a killer standalone drum machine out there which has eluded me, which may be all this guy will ever need, and yet will be so easy to use?
Did I mention that he's not a drummer? ....
He wants a drum machine and is willing to pay, but I think it would be best for him to try out some free stuff and suss things out before deciding what he wants to commit to.
So, I think the idea of suggesting a host and Vsts is a long way off!
Ideas so far to introduce are hammerhead, leafdrums2, Tuareg2 and dLusion drumstation...... with my thoughts swinging towards leafdrums2 cos it seems foolproof ( and yet versatile .... and would be more so if reverb was an option in the fx menu. ) .... very straightforward!
How would any of you guys go about this task? Were talking about a digital prog virgin here, he's a fairly intelligent lad, but then so am I ....and I know fine well that it took me a lot of hair pulling, chin scratching and random key hitting on the way to gaining the knowledge I now enjoy!
Am I missing something? Is there a killer standalone drum machine out there which has eluded me, which may be all this guy will ever need, and yet will be so easy to use?
Did I mention that he's not a drummer? ....
- Banned
- 581 posts since 25 Jun, 2003 from Seattle
Hi,
ReBirthis an excellent tool for beginners and it's free. Once he gets the hang of it he can apply that knowledge to most any drum sequencer styled VSTi.
JG
ReBirthis an excellent tool for beginners and it's free. Once he gets the hang of it he can apply that knowledge to most any drum sequencer styled VSTi.
JG
And the beat goes on...
- KVRAF
- 5242 posts since 22 Jul, 2006 from Tasmania, Australia
Hey TattieMannie,
I plan to get back into graphics soon. Here is a simple drum sequencer standalone I built in SM. It has 14 drums built in to each of the 8 slots. You can load your own samples too. Any probs let me know. I'll take a screenie now. http://www.sendspace.com/file/iua4kj
+1 on ReBirth
Cheers
I plan to get back into graphics soon. Here is a simple drum sequencer standalone I built in SM. It has 14 drums built in to each of the 8 slots. You can load your own samples too. Any probs let me know. I'll take a screenie now. http://www.sendspace.com/file/iua4kj
+1 on ReBirth
Cheers
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- KVRian
- 1013 posts since 7 Oct, 2006
there's one here that is pretty nice. Too bad it doesn't work as VSTi on my system.
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/3169.html
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/3169.html
What ever!
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- KVRAF
- 2812 posts since 30 Oct, 2006 from The City that Started House Music
Someone posted this in another forum. There are quite a few standalone Drum Machines in there too.
http://drop.io/freedrumsoftware
http://drop.io/freedrumsoftware
- KVRAF
- 5242 posts since 22 Jul, 2006 from Tasmania, Australia
That's an awesome resource. ThanksBFunKu wrote: http://drop.io/freedrumsoftware
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- KVRer
- 9 posts since 2 Jan, 2006
check out izotope iDrum.
only 60$ and pretty damn good!
http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/idrum/
only 60$ and pretty damn good!
http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/idrum/
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- KVRAF
- 6596 posts since 21 Jun, 2004 from Secret Underground Hideout
online studio
http://www.hobnox.com/index.1056.en.html
http://www.hobnox.com/index.1056.en.html
"Most people who experiment with drugs are not lying in the streets, suffocating on their own vomit. If you want to see some of that, go to the Pub on Saturday night at closing time." ozwest
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- KVRAF
- 3183 posts since 13 Jun, 2004
hey, dude of the week!! thank you!nix808 wrote:Hey TattieMannie,
I plan to get back into graphics soon. Here is a simple drum sequencer standalone I built in SM. It has 14 drums built in to each of the 8 slots. You can load your own samples too. Any probs let me know. I'll take a screenie now. http://www.sendspace.com/file/iua4kj
+1 on ReBirth
Cheers
( what about something like ole'robobop, just to get to grips with the
general idea of patterns and things?)
- KVRAF
- 5242 posts since 22 Jul, 2006 from Tasmania, Australia
You're very welcome.
Much thanks to exonerate for the sampler and oddson for the timing.
Let me know if you'd like to see anything in particular implemented. We have a drum synth groovebox in the works too.
{chuffed}Cheers{chuffed}
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 3257 posts since 28 Dec, 2007
Wow, excellent response!! cheers guys, I'll try ALL of them if I can before meeting my friend on Monday night, and I'll feedback re. progress ... keep 'em comin tho, ... if there are any more
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- KVRian
- 1491 posts since 10 Nov, 2002 from Moscow,Russia
+! for ReBirth, just be advised it doesn't run on Vista )on my machine at least)
Otherwise, HammerHead is ace or here's another option (former shareware)
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~zap/ldb/
Tu2 is also one of the coolest non-vst software out there, but again it crashes on Vista here and it is much more than a drum machine, so if your friend only wants a simple beatbox HH or LDB may be better options.
Oh, and how could I forget
http://www.kvraudio.com/developer_chall ... nchbox.zip
Otherwise, HammerHead is ace or here's another option (former shareware)
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~zap/ldb/
Tu2 is also one of the coolest non-vst software out there, but again it crashes on Vista here and it is much more than a drum machine, so if your friend only wants a simple beatbox HH or LDB may be better options.
Oh, and how could I forget
http://www.kvraudio.com/developer_chall ... nchbox.zip
- KVRAF
- 5242 posts since 22 Jul, 2006 from Tasmania, Australia
To get Rebirth up on Vista use one of the songs as the executable. It bypasses the default opening of the help file. It should work hopefully.
Cheers
Cheers
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- KVRian
- 1491 posts since 10 Nov, 2002 from Moscow,Russia
Oh, thanx! I'll try it again!nix808 wrote:To get Rebirth up on Vista use one of the songs as the executable. It bypasses the default opening of the help file. It should work hopefully.
Cheers
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- KVRian
- 1343 posts since 26 Aug, 2005 from Netherlands
Or if it really is the opening of a helpfile that is the problem, Microsoft made a vista-compliant helpversion available for backwards compatibility (I need it for my Delphi helpfiles, for example. Works perfectly and makes you wonder why they don't install it by default...)Jazz Franco wrote:Oh, thanx! I'll try it again!nix808 wrote:To get Rebirth up on Vista use one of the songs as the executable. It bypasses the default opening of the help file. It should work hopefully.
Cheers
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en
HTH!