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offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2003-09-05 10:51 [#00851468]
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Can any mac users please recommend me a software drum
machine that fulfills these requirements:

shareware/freeware,
runs on mac OS 9,
works with default ibook sound card.

It should also preferably be:
Able to load samples,
Fairly small in size (I'll have to split it up across
several floppy discs, so 20mb+ is out of the question
really...),
Keyboard (as in, the ibook's QWERTY keyboard) controllable.

I know it's a lot to ask for, but if such a program exists,
please let me know, linking to it if possible.

Many thanks,
Ceri


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2003-09-05 10:52 [#00851471]
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Sell the Mac and get a proper laptop! Thats my advice to
you.... :P


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2003-09-05 10:57 [#00851481]
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You swine! I was hoping this would be Zeus or another mac
user with the answer to my prayers!

I've basically decided to use my ibook as a drum machine on
the 3rd channel of my mixer (I did it with a PC with Ableton
Live as a sampler last time I played live and now want to be
able to do something similair at home) as I can't afford an
MC-303 at the moment.


 

offline WeaklingChild from Glasgow (United Kingdom) on 2003-09-05 10:58 [#00851483]
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if you were goin hardware, you should look t the elektron
drumstation.
www.elektron.se

listen to the samples on the site...this thing is fucking
awesome, and if i had the cash, i'd buy it in a second.


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2003-09-05 11:00 [#00851485]
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Congrats on the 11000 points btw!! YAY!!


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-09-05 11:20 [#00851517]
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:-/

sorry man... dont know of any program like that...

best bet would to be to DL some pirated software...



 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-09-05 11:22 [#00851521]
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oh

and avoid the mc-303 LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!

I have one

its shite

but ill sell it to you if you want :-D

but really... it sucks. it was my first synth...


 

offline Portland from San Diego (United States) on 2003-09-05 11:33 [#00851534]
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you will probably find something here


 

offline WeaklingChild from Glasgow (United Kingdom) on 2003-09-05 11:35 [#00851538]
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zeus!!!!!!!!! how much for the roland?


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2003-09-05 11:46 [#00851555]
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Looks nice- but notice I said, "I can't afford an MC-303 at
the moment" - doesn't that make it obvious I can't afford
over £1000 for their one?! ;-)



 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2003-09-05 11:48 [#00851560]
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Oh yes, another requirement for the mac drum machine- it
needs to be a standalone package...


 

offline WeaklingChild from Glasgow (United Kingdom) on 2003-09-05 12:08 [#00851571]
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but its sooooooooooooooo good.


 

offline Portland from San Diego (United States) on 2003-09-05 12:10 [#00851573]
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i posted a link to a site that has sampling drum machines
for free. basically everything you wanted. did you look into
it or ignore it?


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-09-05 12:22 [#00851584]
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yea JC, check portlands link... go to CM studio...looks
good...

and about the mc.... i dont know... ceri also emailed me
about it...

things you should both know... the left output can cut out
from time to time... jiggling it solves this...

but yeah... uh... lemme look on ebay at prices and
shizzle...



 

offline Paco from Gothenburg (Sweden) on 2003-09-05 14:49 [#00851788]
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I hope the Elektron Monomachine has some of the Machinedrum
capabilities. It might actually sway me away from the Clavia
G2 Modular. We'll see. Elektron have their offices not too
far from my place so I'll have to ask them if a
demonstration is in order :)

The Monomachine looks fucking sweet. The whole design says
experimental music.



 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-09-06 03:45 [#00852311]
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bump for jc


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2003-09-06 03:55 [#00852316]
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Jedi Chris?

:D


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-09-06 03:56 [#00852319]
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holy shit!

conspiracy!

Ceri JC is actually jedi chris!

the subtle hint has been their all along!

CERI JEDI CHRIS!!!!

AHHHHHH!!!!!


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2003-09-06 04:04 [#00852328]
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Cheers for the bump I'd forgotten to check this thread...

Portland:

Yesterday I spent about an hour on that site (and a further
1/2 hour this morning) and whilst the CM-505 looks ideal,
these are the only files relating to it that I can find:

07/24/2002 01:19PM Directory cm505 drum grooves
07/24/2002 01:18PM Directory cm505 presets
05/13/2002 12:41PM Directory mp3

None of which is the actual program ;-(


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-09-06 04:05 [#00852330]
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its not on the site?

it came free with the magazine...

i have the CD around somewhere... remind me later, and i can
send it to you


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2003-09-06 04:08 [#00852334]
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Thanks Zeus- I've just emailed them asking if it's available
from the website, if the answer is no, I'll mail you in a
couple of days. Thanks for your help!


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-09-06 04:08 [#00852335]
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np :)


 

offline korben dallas from nz on 2003-09-06 05:30 [#00852376]
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cm505 is well good fun. nice for the quinolline yellow type
grooves. i've found that the sr202 is rather unstable on
macos9 ..


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2003-09-06 05:39 [#00852382]
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Can you confirm that it works as a standalone? I can just
run it alone and it'll work?


 


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