Drum Machine

[DailyDovetails]

I’ve got a boss RC-10r looper pedal that does pretty slick drum stuff.

I got this to supplement my metronome for when I practice dual guitar stuff. You can quantize the looper so it stays in time with the drums. It has a little bit of menu diving but you don't have to do it much once it's setup. I found it alot easier than the EHX 22500 which is similar in function.

 

[Aentons]

I have the newer Alesis SR-18 drum machine and built a small 2 button footswitch for it. It lets you do tap tempo, start/stop and a/b with transition fills. The only headache is, to use it as drum machine only, I have to mute the extra two bass and percussion channels every time I turn it on.

 

[pricklyrobot]

If the LM-Drum is in your budget it’ll probably do everything you want and then some. Having pretty much all the controls on the front panel and not having to menu dive for programming definitely makes for much more pleasant drum machining.
For instance, the MRT3B someone mentioned is indeed capable of some good sounds, but it’s pretty tedious to program IMHO.

If you wanted to go for something cheaper the Behringer RD-6 is an option, though it only does electronic drum sounds, no samples.

Cyclone also make a nice TR-606 clone, and a CR-78 one as well:

cyclone-analogic - Cyclone analogic Official Store

resale and distributor of cyclone-analogic

www.cyclone-analogic.fr

They’ve been around for several years, so you might be able to find a used one for a good price.

 

[Stickman393]

Superior drummer 3.0 here.

I quite like my little Arturia Drumbrute as well for the more synth-y stuff.

 

[mkstewartesq]

Wasn't that the one where you could layer different sounds and pitch shift them?
I vaguely remember pounding out some cool industrial noise loops on one around 99-00

I bought mine in 1994 and used it pretty exclusively for about the next 10 years until I got into VSTs. Yes, that was one of the best features – that you could stack sounds. You could really get some awesome (for the time) snare and tom sounds by stacking sounds (I seem to particularly recall liking stacking the Hi Cannon and Lo Cannon toms with dry tom sounds for a pretty massive sound. Since I was recording to tape and doing a lot of bouncing, it was good to record somewhat “oversize” sounds as you would lose some of their impact after a lot of bouncing down. The variety of snares and open and closed hi-hat sounds were also a plus, as well as the percussion patches and various world instruments.