2 Solid Drum Machines That Allow You to Drop Some Beats Fast
Posted by: Jon Ben-Mayor on 02/03/2016 08:52 AM
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You have probably noticed our budding sub-category within multimedia geared at musicians; we have listed some of the best apps out there for producing, writing and learning to play music. We will continue to add to this section as we find them or as you fine users bring your favorites to our attention to put through the MajorGeeks test process.
d-lusion
If you remember way back when... Roland synthesizers were all the rage, bands prominently featured them in music videos and such. Enter d-lusion, a drum app modeled after the the legendary Roland drum synthesizers TR-909, TR-808 and TR-606 and allows you to easily create impressive sounding drum tracks without spending mass amounts of cash to purchase an actual Roland - free is good.
It is pretty easy to use, and provides a 8 healthy channels of drums which can be either sampled or synthesized drum sounds that features a programmable step sequencer, a myriad of effects such as realtime reverb, delay, flanger, filter, distortion for each of the 8 channels. While producing a track you can also stretch out or slice loops as the track requires.
d-lusion Drumstation combines cool old drum machine features with cutting-edge software synthesis technology that will enable you to easily produce quality drum tracks at will. The UI lends to the total experience by providing you with a nice looking console for mixing your beats. All in all, a nicely done drum station - pump it up and drop a beat.
drumbit for Chrome
drumbit for Chrome is more simple than d-lusion in function as well as UI and is distributed as a Chrome extension. But it is still a solid offering that will allow you to quickly create and save relatively simple drum tracks as .wav audio files.
You can create, save and edit your own rhythm patterns (and also the settings you define) and choose from various different drum kits which is a nice option depending on what type of music you are attempting to create.
drumbit for Chrome is easy to figure out and use, this testing process wound up being a little longer than usual as the successful attempt to match the 'Walk this Way' drum beat took precedence over everything. It is nice to be able to select different drum kits depending on what type of beats you are laying down. And the swing factor gives you the ability to really spice it up. I can see using drumbit more for a play along application rather than a recording quality production - perfect for the development of your music before actually recording the final polished cut.
d-lusion
If you remember way back when... Roland synthesizers were all the rage, bands prominently featured them in music videos and such. Enter d-lusion, a drum app modeled after the the legendary Roland drum synthesizers TR-909, TR-808 and TR-606 and allows you to easily create impressive sounding drum tracks without spending mass amounts of cash to purchase an actual Roland - free is good.
It is pretty easy to use, and provides a 8 healthy channels of drums which can be either sampled or synthesized drum sounds that features a programmable step sequencer, a myriad of effects such as realtime reverb, delay, flanger, filter, distortion for each of the 8 channels. While producing a track you can also stretch out or slice loops as the track requires.
d-lusion Drumstation combines cool old drum machine features with cutting-edge software synthesis technology that will enable you to easily produce quality drum tracks at will. The UI lends to the total experience by providing you with a nice looking console for mixing your beats. All in all, a nicely done drum station - pump it up and drop a beat.
drumbit for Chrome
drumbit for Chrome is more simple than d-lusion in function as well as UI and is distributed as a Chrome extension. But it is still a solid offering that will allow you to quickly create and save relatively simple drum tracks as .wav audio files.
You can create, save and edit your own rhythm patterns (and also the settings you define) and choose from various different drum kits which is a nice option depending on what type of music you are attempting to create.
drumbit for Chrome is easy to figure out and use, this testing process wound up being a little longer than usual as the successful attempt to match the 'Walk this Way' drum beat took precedence over everything. It is nice to be able to select different drum kits depending on what type of beats you are laying down. And the swing factor gives you the ability to really spice it up. I can see using drumbit more for a play along application rather than a recording quality production - perfect for the development of your music before actually recording the final polished cut.
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