Elektron Musical Instruments

It's so hard to tell someone if something will fit their needs exactly as
every person, regardless of musical style, has different tastes when it
comes to gear. Put the xbase and machinedrum side by side and you will
immediately hear that these 2 machines sound radically different. Which
sounds better? I don't think you can look at it this way. The xbase is
analog and therefore sounds very warm and organic. You could never create
the xbase kick on the machinedrum. On the other hand, the machine drum is
very cool for digital sounding percussion and it can create some crazy and
amazing sounds the xbase could never do. You can come up with some really
good and different sounding percussion sounds and it does really have a
unique sound of its own. The 2 compliment each other very nicely as you get
the best of both worlds but of course I have the feeling that you only want
to shell out the $$$ on one unit. Since you already seem to have been more
than getting by with stomper and a sampler and you have a 505 and other
digital gear  in your arsenal, I would argue that you could benefit more
from the texture that an analog box would provide to your beats and music.
This all depends on what your looking for. I like my kick to really kick!
Why are you looking for more? What is it that your current setup does not
provide? You want something that "kick's ass" then I must say if it's
presence in a mix you're looking for to supplement your current setup than
the xbase or another analog drum box may be what you need. The idea
situation is to try out both of these someway as until you are sitting in
front of one of these units and press start you will not know if either of
this your fill your needs.

Brana




> I have to say this:
> What would my life be without the Machinedrum?
> It\ufffds the first real Drum-Synth there is.

alright, so all this hype about the machinedrum being dopeass and "the
first real Drum-Synth"... i just have to ask:

how cool is it compared to the jomox gear?  does anyone have both?

my situation/needs:  i write freeform/trancecore so i usually use stock
909 samples for hats/crash/snare... i usually generate my kicks using
stomper or some of the cool drumsynths from buzz.  i'm looking at the
jomox xbase or airbase or machinedrum.  any other ones i should consider?

i've got a sid (though i barely use it) and a ton of other really
highquality gear (access virus, waldorf q, emu xl1, roland 505,
synthechno teebee 303, mpc2000, and loads more)  like i said before i've
got some killer drum generating software, but no actual physical unit that
kicks ass in the drum department (correct me if i'm wrong).  in my opinion
all the gear i just listed is mostly for synth sounds except some stock
drum sounds out of the 505 and xl1.