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Mappable XoX-style AUv3s drum machine?
Does anyone know which if any AUv3 drum machines on the iPad have mappable selection buttons?
I'm thinking of using something like the Presonus Atom SQ with its 16 + 16 buttons that would allow one set for selecting the track/sound (ideally 8-16 separate channels), and then the other 16 for selecting where the currently selected sound would trigger in the measure.
Ideally I can map paging buttons and encoders for pitch and other things, but that would be secondary.
This information doesn't seem quite as prevalent to find for different drum machine apps.
I'm debating grabbing a Roland TR-8S, as I'm trying to keep most things hands-on hardware, but where I need to wait, trying to focus on apps that have sensical hardware mappings to gear I already have. Maybe it just makes more sense to sprinf for the TR-8S now, but weight available options.
And thank you!
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Drambo is the only one I know of. There are probably others, but there are very few, if any.
blip box is mappable inside aum or loopy pro
Thanks for some feedback on this - I went ahead and ordered a TR-8S, also because the last one available in this country at the moment, and prices are usually $150 higher than right now.
Having both Drambo and Blip Box, I might play with the configuration of these until the TR-8S arrives. While I intend to learn Drambo in time, Blip Box is the closest thing to a DFAM replacement I have for the moment, and is also Multi-Out ... though, given the types of sounds it produces, I'm not sure that will matter as much since I don't expect they'll typically fall into the standard Kick, Snare, Hats, etc. groups.
Tr-8s or the 6s are the absolute best, hands down, drum machines for total hands on jamming.
IMO the beat even elektron mainly because of the per channel knobs and most importantly the sliders…
The FM synth is nice, etc…
And now that it appears it may be EOL the prices on new are less than used on reverb!
My TR-8S came on Thursday.
I have my Digitakt and Digitone already listed for sale. I've given thought to pulling them into my dawless setup, but I want to be familiar with everything I've already got in it first.
Good god.
The TR-8S is just ... I've spent the last couple of nights going through the manual a couple hours at a time, and it's just ... it feels like the kind of drum machine you buy for life. I'm nearly through the manual and about at the point where I can start focusing on just making my own kits to work from. I'm not sure if I'm ready to brave my massive sample library to start pulling things in, but I formatted a 500GB SD card as a starting point, so I can at least back up changes.
I feel like I've got the core of everything I could want and more. The Korg Electibe ER-1 is unbeatable for immediacy and getting to a wonderful variety of solid to interesting kooky sounds, and fills so much. I've hardly ever needed to look at a manual to do anything, it's just that immediate and dead simple. Primary downsides are stereo out only, and as an ageing device, the knobs do start to exhibit some weird behaviors. I need to clean it.
The Arturia DrumBrute Impact is not bad as an analog drum machine. Oddly, I found the 66 or so pages of manual vastly more consumable than the TR-8S, but there just isn't that much complexity. It's sound capabilities are also vastly more limited than the ER-1 or TR-8S, especially if you're splitting the outs, and you will need external FX processors (hardware or in the iPad) to really carve out decent kicks, snares, and hats. However, the variations are not hard to pick up or remember, and it makes it fast for getting quick and at least slightly tweakable ideas down quickly that can be recorded from multiple outs.
The TR-8S is just on an entirely different level. It's possible it could easily replace the Arturia DrumBrute Impact for all sounds and even immediacy in time once there is strong familiarity, though I'm not there yet. Outside of something like the Moog DFAM or a Perkins or something for a greater variety of oddball sounds with streamlined and highly focused control, it covers a substantial amount of territory.
However, for the moment I'll stick with things like B00GA and Blip Box for oddities through the iPad, and perhaps Ruismaker NOIR if and when it ever goes on sale again, and meanwhile, have the exact base I wanted to cover through the TR-8S, as well as multiple outs I can record separately in Loopy.
Luckily this was the last thing I wanted in my hardware setup.