Re: Easiest drum machine software

["Tony K" <bigtonyk@gmail.com>]

For dead easy try Hammerhead.

http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/

The guy who wrote that (Bram Bos) also has two other drum with
sequencer programs Tuareg and TunaFish.  Both are really easy and
really cool.  Tuna can use VSTs and both will use samples so you can
have any sounds you want.

www.brambos.com

They do not, however, let you input in realtime.

I've also used DrumFlow, but that's for creating MIDI drum patterns
and I use it to import stuff to Sonar.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 8:22 AM, jj 179 <jj179subs@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hey folks,
>
>  I had been considering plunking down a coupla hundred bucks on a used
> Ensoniq or E-mu drum machine and it occurred to me that it might be 
>cheaper
> to go the software route. For whatever reason I have a bit of a brain 
>block
> when it comes to programming synths, MIDI, and rhythms, so it will be an
> uphill battle I know. The drum machines I've been drawn to are those that
> allow you hammer out rhythms on pads in real-time, so that you don't JUST
> have to do it in step programming. Trance/dance/techno/breakbeat etc are
> what I'm looking for.
>
>  Any decent software packages out there focused on drums? I really don't
> have the time/inclination to master a complicated software interface 
>like a
> lot of the overall production systems - if there really is a dedicated 
>drum
> machine program out there that's decent, i'd love to play with it. If it 
>has
> (or has access to) multiple decent drum libraries as well, that would be
> cool - or at least the ability to play wav samples.
>
>  I do have an Akai MPD16 midi drum control pad thingie, so that should 
>help.
>
>  Any thoughts on a "for dummies" software drum machine?
>
>
>
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