A good software drum machine

[vmyks]

I'm looking for a good software drum machine. I make mostly trance and pop tracks.
Can anyone please point me in the right direction?
I can spend up to 300 u.s. dollars.

Best regards
Vegard M.

[nmodi]

For that much you could get Native Instruments Battery plus one of their extra CD-Roms for synthetic drums and still have money to spare. Highly recommended drum software. See Tweak's review:

http://www.tweakheadz.com/reviews/review_of_battery_native_inst.htm

[vmyks]

Ok, thanks a lot. I will check that out!

Regards
Vegard M

[Hepcat62]

I can also recommend Battery. I don't own it myself, but I was playing with it at a larger studio in the area when I was mixing down a demo track for another musician there a while ago.

I had recorded my drum tracks using my Roland V-Drums (to a MIDI track, which I then used to record each drum onto a separate audio track for mixing). When we started the final mixdown, we decided that the snare wasn't quite what we wanted. Unable to quickly find a suitable sound in the V-Drum module (note, we could've created one in the V-Drum brain - the drum customization on the unit is superb - but in the interest of time...), the engineer there suggested that he had some samples he thought would work. Battery made it pretty darn easy to build a snare that sounded the way we wanted in response to the MIDI data from the V-Drums by using a few samples, and it was a snap to bounce the new snare to audio and continue mixing.

Great software. Especially for people who don't already own a really good sounding drum synth/kit like the V-Drums, from my VERY limited experience with MIDI and softsynths, etc., I would say it's probably the easiest way I can think of to build good sounding drum kits.

Brian

[vmyks]

Thanks a lot for the info!! I've checked it out, and I'm probably gonna go for NI Battery.

Regards
Vegard M

[madcat]

Redrum in Reason is pimp. It does it all if you ask me and it's easy to use...especially Rewired to Cubase.

[tecnolover]

hi,

I do trance and tecno music and like using battery. it's pretty straightforward software. it's a sample playback software naturally. You will want to have some good TR-909 and 808 samples to load into it for doing your trance stuff. Propeller headz Rebirth is software with a tr808/909 303bass built in and I tried it out. It's ok, but I like my own samples better.