Korg Drumlogue

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Damn. Looks sexy and the kick sounds great.
But those hats and snare sounds like anus.

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this one seems to showcase the sound in a much cleaner fashionā€¦ kick indeed sounds greats, especially at 1:15 but not too convinced about the other soundsā€¦ seems to be quite samey most of the time. the fx seem to be what give it some edge.

i honestly thought they would make the whole drum machine digital, and make all the voices customizable with the korg SDK. but thatā€™s sadly not the case. letā€™s see if other demos showcase some more of its potentialā€¦

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Yeah, so Iā€™m not digging this machine at all.

Samplesā€¦ really!? Korg has this really cool drum architecture in the Volca drum or even the ER-1, why on earth donā€™t they incorporate that into bigger machines!?

The small volume pots feel strangely out of place. The menu diving looksā€¦ menu diveyā€¦

Edit: itā€™s early morning here, Iā€™m gonna cut down on the reactionary posts

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Exactly.
A big form factor volca drum, or updated ER1 would be very tempting for me. This isnt of any interest at all. Samples indeed.

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It combines samples, analogue drums (Snare, Toms and Kick) and VPM / Drum SDK (which means that we can expect future drum and synth elements through SDK, like with the minilogue xd and prologue)

Instabuy for me because Iā€™m gear/drum machine obsessed and have little willpower for new gear like this.

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Itā€™s FINALLY happening!!

Stereo samples, thank the lord.

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I guess Iā€™ll have to keep waiting for the great groovebox successor to the EMX-1 that Korg clearly has in them but seem strangely reluctant to make!

If I understand correctly that this has just one channel of Logue engine then it seems like a wasted opportunity but thatā€™s because I want a groovebox and not a drum machine. This may well be heaven for drum machine nuts (see above-but-one post).

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That said, I can genuinely see why this isnā€™t lighting some people on fire. I can see people finding this disappointing and underwhelming. I might even be one of them once I have it!

Just watched the Loopop video and was not blown away by the sound but I think I am a bit biased because I only bought the Syntakt a few weeks ago and I am loving that at the moment. Iā€™ve just sold the Volca Beats and kept the Volca Drum and I was hoping the DRUMLOGUE was going to be more like the drum.

The sequencer options look good but the menu diving puts me off.

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Online at Thomann for 599 ā‚¬. But delivery date still tba.

Hot take:

Korg will make a digital version of this with Volca drum and/or ER-1 engine. Need to milk the platform!

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ā€˜The drumlogue comes with the Nano plugin, which is a virtual analog synth by Sinevibes with two oscillators, ring modulation, a four-pole filter, envelopes, and an LFOā€™.

Sounds cool. I wonder if they will actually being out various versions in the style of the Electribes or if theyā€™ve decided to hedge their bets with one machine that seemingly does analogue, samples and digital synthesis.

idk

i like the ratcheting but somehow the snare sounds 1:1 hollow like / noise decay, like on that Volca Beats.

Woody and Noisy Iā€™d say

everybody get a RYTM itā€™s all of this thing within some parameter values, with MK2 and USB youā€˜ll get the largest library of sdks and fxā€¦

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Too bad drumlogue doesnā€™t support the oodles of engines that already exist for the *logue platform. Very much so.

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have been looking forward to this coming out but itā€™s not impressing me with anything iā€™ve seen or heard so farā€¦sounds, SDK implementation, samples, etcā€¦ routing and sequencing/performance options seem solid, but if the core sounds arenā€™t there then the rest is all for naught.

Currently on the fence with the demos.

For me itā€™s the more ā€œVintageā€ sounding kits and sounds i prefer. But that makes it a pointless acquisition.

Oh, and I hate extreme ratcheting, so that always does my head in on a demo.

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