Good 808 drum machine alternatives?

Red Kite · Post by **Red Kite** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 1:58 am

Rebirth!

Definately better then samples at least...

AK · Post by AK » Sun Aug 03, 2008 2:15 am

Red Kite wrote:Rebirth!

Definately better then samples at least...

Aren't Rebirths drums samples?

Lord_Iron · Post by **Lord_Iron** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 12:05 pm

Check out the MFB-503. I didn´t try it myself but some people told me it has a quite nice analog drum sound.

http://mfberlin.de/Produkte/Musikelektr ... -503e.html

Measax · Post by **Measax** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:46 pm

Lord_Iron wrote:Check out the MFB-503. I didn´t try it myself but some people told me it has a quite nice analog drum sound.

http://mfberlin.de/Produkte/Musikelektr ... -503e.html

indeed. and the vermona dmk3 is good and some nice sounds on the korg emx too. prices range between 300-900. choose wisely. I suggest going to youtube and listening to some videos. people post themselves doing sh!t on these machines all the time and you can figure out what has the sound you want.

drokkr.minimal · Post by **drokkr.minimal** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:17 pm

this may be of interest -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3d6U9ah ... re=related

clubfoot · Post by **clubfoot** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:50 pm

AK wrote:...some sort of setting on a real 808 kick where you can get a real short 'clicky' kick, it's evident on a lot of old Electro records like, Hashim - Al Naafysh ( The Soul ) Paul Hardcastles '19', and numerous others.

I was told that specific short clicky kick-like sound on those breaking style electro tracks is actually just the empty sound of the midi trigger on the machine. something like that. maybe someone who actually uses a real 808 could shed some more light on the matter for ya.

dyte · Post by **dyte** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:37 pm

Red Kite wrote:Rebirth!

Definately better then samples at least...

if you're gonna look at vsts these 2 are worth checking out (for free)

http://www.e-phonic.com/plugins/drumatic3.php (synth based)

http://www.odosynths.com/DRF2.rar (sample based)

AK · Post by AK » Sat Aug 09, 2008 12:18 am

clubfoot wrote:
AK wrote:...some sort of setting on a real 808 kick where you can get a real short 'clicky' kick, it's evident on a lot of old Electro records like, Hashim - Al Naafysh ( The Soul ) Paul Hardcastles '19', and numerous others.
I was told that specific short clicky kick-like sound on those breaking style electro tracks is actually just the empty sound of the midi trigger on the machine. something like that. maybe someone who actually uses a real 808 could shed some more light on the matter for ya.

Do you know anything more about this, sounds interesting?

I'm a little confused as the 808 didn't have midi though.