Is there someone who knows both and have compared them in detail?
I refuse to buy anything from roland cloud, but I keep wondering if it's a step up for old school techno and house. I have Drumazon and it's good, but I'm somehow not 100% satisfied. I can't really say why.
Roland cloud 909 vs. Drumazon 2
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- KVRian
- 1045 posts since 13 Feb, 2013
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- KVRian
- 1380 posts since 8 Jan, 2012 from frankfurt, Germany
You can try Roland cloud one month free. I have both and prefer drumazon2 - for me it sounds miles ahead. I have no original one to compare, but the Roland cloud one is now also 10 years old, while d16 is a new release, with improved sound quality
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- KVRist
- 104 posts since 21 Oct, 2024
Are you sure? I think it's the other way around. I mean, the first Roland Cloud TR-909 is from 2018 and the first Drumazon is from 2005.sacer wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 1:32 pm I have no original one to compare, but the Roland cloud one is now also 10 years old, while d16 is a new release, with improved sound quality
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- KVRist
- 425 posts since 9 Nov, 2012 from Colorado, USA
Welp do you have Drumazon 2? they redid a few of the sounds which are better than original Drumazon v1, added some new features not found in Roland 909 and the Drumazon 2 pattern sequencer is world easier to use.I have Drumazon and it's good, but I'm somehow not 100% satisfied. I can't really say why.
there are tons of shootouts on YouTube and purists and threads. go check some out for yourself.
if you can't really say why, nobody is gunna sway you one way or another. up to your ears and workflow if it works for you or you need something better or more accurate.
I never got along with the original 909 hardware, Roland's way of doing things. their cloud Roland 909 is very accurate to the original hardware. I thought Drumazon v1 was pretty good emulation and Durmazon2 is even better, for me. I'm not a purist just want something easy to work with , low costing and functional.
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- KVRian
- 744 posts since 15 May, 2003 from R'lyeh
Not this again. So you are claiming that it no longer sounds like a 909 because its code is 'outdated'?? It either does the job or it doesn't. The age of the code doesn't matter unless the thing was written in Pascal back in like 1982 and needs to be ported over to C++.sacer wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 1:32 pm but the Roland cloud one is now also 10 years old, while d16 is a new release, with improved sound quality
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- KVRist
- 138 posts since 15 Dec, 2023
I love both Nepheton 2 and Drumazon 2, and almost always prefer them to samples. I love the 606 but haven't sprung for Nithonat 2 yet.
I think if you're looking for "pure" 909 sounds you are often going to be disappointed by the presets and kits because of how much post processing they've baked in - you've basically got various dynamic controls, eq, and effects buses in there. When a lot of dynamic processing is used in the preset it alters the character of the drum engines substantially, and usually not in ways that I enjoy for the styles I make (electro, idm, industrial). The engines themselves are awesome and to my ears (when relatively dry) are very, very close.
I've found it best to always start from an Init state and work up from there, and I use the internal effects / dynamics sparingly. I tend to process the drum voices externally with other plugins if I need that.
Just a hint that might help!
Also, I almost never drive them with the internal sequencer - I'm just not really feeling it and prefer to either hand play or drive them with a polymetric or probability based sequencer personally.
I think if you're looking for "pure" 909 sounds you are often going to be disappointed by the presets and kits because of how much post processing they've baked in - you've basically got various dynamic controls, eq, and effects buses in there. When a lot of dynamic processing is used in the preset it alters the character of the drum engines substantially, and usually not in ways that I enjoy for the styles I make (electro, idm, industrial). The engines themselves are awesome and to my ears (when relatively dry) are very, very close.
I've found it best to always start from an Init state and work up from there, and I use the internal effects / dynamics sparingly. I tend to process the drum voices externally with other plugins if I need that.
Just a hint that might help!
Also, I almost never drive them with the internal sequencer - I'm just not really feeling it and prefer to either hand play or drive them with a polymetric or probability based sequencer personally.