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does anyone know of any software drum machine that would be suitable for djing with (on a mac). it really needs to be a plug-in. i know of idrum which is cool but it would require a lot of presets. is there anything else which could be used more on the fly?

Try Guru.
http://www.fxpansion.com/index.php?page=4

Hope this helps

LRC wrote:does anyone know of any software drum machine that would be suitable for djing with (on a mac). it really needs to be a plug-in. i know of idrum which is cool but it would require a lot of presets. is there anything else which could be used more on the fly?

Impulse.

uTonic

http://www.soniccharge.com

Best $70 you'll spend...

cosmosuave wrote:uTonic

http://www.soniccharge.com

Best $70 you'll spend...

+100

wow! had a quick look at the demo and wow. not really the sort of sound i would personally play though. i play (or at least try to play) fairly hard dark techno. do you think it would be good for that kind of stuff? if it is 100% synthetic, so could you get any sound you want from it (providing it's drums)?

LRC wrote:wow! had a quick look at the demo and wow. not really the sort of sound i would personally play though. i play (or at least try to play) fairly hard dark techno. do you think it would be good for that kind of stuff? if it is 100% synthetic, so could you get any sound you want from it (providing it's drums)?

You can get some pretty gritty sounds out of it as well as some good hard kicks... Lots of cool presets... There are quite a few members of this board that use this plugin...

how easy is it to use on the fly? i imagine there is some pre-preparation involved, but i like that about this kind of djing.

LRC wrote:wow! had a quick look at the demo and wow. not really the sort of sound i would personally play though. i play (or at least try to play) fairly hard dark techno. do you think it would be good for that kind of stuff? if it is 100% synthetic, so could you get any sound you want from it (providing it's drums)?

come on now, what do you think hard dark techno drums are if not oscillators with pitch mods and some white noise? thats what the drums for most electronic music are, if you need something else then you could always route the drums from microtonic to an audio track and record it and then modify the hell out of it from there.
it's got 2 outputs too so you can have some drums going to one track and others going to another track, add some reverb and delay to one and some guitar rig distortion to another or something.

the point is it's the basic components of electronic drums that everyone uses, where you take them is up to you.

LRC wrote:how easy is it to use on the fly? i imagine there is some pre-preparation involved, but i like that about this kind of djing.

What are you going to use to control uTonic? When you talk on the fly what do you want to do?

Johnisfaster wrote: it's got 2 outputs too so you can have some drums going to one track and others going to another track, add some reverb and delay to one and some guitar rig distortion to another or something.

8 outputs... check the 'multi' version of the plug.

slow riot wrote:

Johnisfaster wrote: it's got 2 outputs too so you can have some drums going to one track and others going to another track, add some reverb and delay to one and some guitar rig distortion to another or something.

8 outputs... check the 'multi' version of the plug.

oh wow, i havent touched that one in a while i guess

well assuming it's midi compatible i would use the uc-17 to adjust the various parameters. i would use it for percussion type build ups and maybe layering in some kind extra sounds. i wouldn't be composing entire songs, just making the set a little more dynamic.

Another uTonic vote. Get yourself a BCR2000 and dedicated it to just uTonic and you'll be set.

Didn't click the link yet, but UTonic looks interesting. Question...

Do I have to use my own samples or does it have it's own sounds?