All user reviews for the Novation DrumStation 2

2 audio outputs "main" output + 6 spares o one can assign any sound
1 + 1 midi in midi out (thru I know I sold 230 euros for info)
No effects of course
No crash noon 2 years of use
I gave him a damn transformer Thomson bought auchan

UTILIZATION

Instruction in English a little boring for sysex, etc. prog change ....
Mode 808 or 909 in use, then return to the sounds of these two sounds each vintage machines
The edition sounds, well, there are not too many rglage possible, not the c synthse

SOUNDS

The sounds are correct, the grain is warm enough, however much I t's by the sounds of 909 mode (pretty gross basis) than the 808.
The famous kick the 909, the amplitude of the tune is not large trs, ditto for deay I expected = ki ki ki have a tooouuuummmmmm toooouuuummmmm, although it stops a Khartoum normal what.
APRS dpend that your style of zik.

OVERALL OPINION

So if you have a bit of hard or soft derrire that can color and make it even more hot sounds that are too crude to use that I had.
I had changed against an emu orbit v2
At the end I did was used as a kick that had more potato than mono output on the Stereo "main"
The plus is the possibility to have kits in the kick "clatquot; an octave.

Another product innovation which I spar with great pleasure, but for 200 euros ocaz discipline it's worth (6000 francs the era of its release, vritable a scam right?)

This is an emulator of TR909 and TR808 (so vintage) rack.

Bards of the pots is really Drumstation trs simple to use, it can decay the controller any time a particular instrument.

Many output jacks (a + 6 Individual Stereo output) show immediately that the DrumStation Pipelines Limited to take place in a studio rich (with mixer, effects ...).

Attention polyphony (8) does not rev high, I have often reached. There are some effects such as disortion and cut, but it is essential to have at least one derrire reverb ...

Compltement Midif (in / out / through) + dyn sync.

UTILIZATION

Simple use because compltement Midif, many more pots handy for a live edition make it easy to sound. If you're used to the 808 and 909 you will not dpayss. Record his thanks presets is a switch: simple and sr.

The doc is blah.

Warning: no patterning on this machine, unlike the original.

SOUNDS

No doubt the above is a good accumulation of TRS 808 and 909. Unless intgriste be a hard-core, there is no reason to possder possde when the original one. The outputs provide a spares trs flexibility, allows you to really make a qualisation fine for each element (as if it were a battery!).

The snare of the 808 ultra is authentic and the effects that can be put on HiHats gives her characters a particular trs. The kick of the 808 can be trs deep attention at the table!

When we reached the limits of polyphony in Drumstation she starts making cuts in every sense ... 8 voice polyphony, may soon s'atteindre trs, trs but it is generally sufficient.

Most of the sounds are "dry", it is essential to add a minimum processing derrire. The DrumStation does not Reverb, etc.. internally, so be warned ...

OVERALL OPINION

I use the Drumstation for years: never any problem.

Reliable, authentic ... Attention, this is neither more nor less than 808 909. It offers the flexibility of these legendary machines, but not much more. It is impractical to have an impact (at least one good qualisation) derrire out a sound not too dry (especially the kick). This is not an all-in-box. This is not a good first purchase. This is something that adds to your dj set structure.

I do not regret this purchase at all, because that's exactly what I wanted. Now if you in your music lctronique, I would advise plutt (today) a Jomox Airbase, much more flexible ... Unless you find a Drumstation used for a mouth of bread is a good buy trs: has aged well.

I bought it in 2008, kept two months and sold for something else but I have good memories.
Found in analog modeling the 808 and 909 and there is MIDI, individual outputs, full of buttons to tweak live and that's fun, you can combine bits of kit with those of 808 909 to get his own kit.
No effects, no software, no sequencer, but it's worth € 150 so should not ask too much.

UTILIZATION

To use the knobs turn out to be a real plus compared to the competition in the same range of rates used.
I did not have to complain about the lack of polyphony.

SOUNDS

Question is a very nice, close to the sounds of the original but lacks the fishery, the definition at the bottom, the feeling and the immediacy of the original groove.
By ca bleuf well against the world I think anyway.
In a mix, output recovered in separate, for each element, effects and EQ on the buttocks and ca why it does what expected: imitate the original.
So the sound is good but you have to work behind. Fairly quickly we take for a pioneer in the Strait thoroughly with a tweak that turns sytnhé lead, a bassline and a TB.

OVERALL OPINION

I sold a Jomox Airbase 99. The jomox for the same price is better or almost the issue but have no knobs so you have to send him a controller with exchange controls.
I had an Electribe ESX (albeit with an armada of old BAR sample, and indeed a beast ES1mk2 enough for that), I kept a 3-year DRM1mk2 Vermona (ca claque strong but very special) a TR707 (excellent if treated later with reverb and EQ), an MC303 (ho hum, it's cheap and for the price there is a good sytnhé a little dated and a lot of drum sounds, some do wonderful things with this box, but not me ...), a DX200 (very good for the FM synth, otherwise the drum samples as in the 303 etc etc), an SP12 turbo (which is really strong and smack more notch above), a TR909 (also several notches above: the groove, the feel, dynamics), the airbase99 (really for the price if you consider the purchase of the drum station I would rather the 99!), a Elektron SPS1 and SPS1UW (my machine of choice if it was to stay only).
I never owned the MFB 502, 503 and 522 but I think as the airbase is a little better (the sound and some knobs) that Drumstation although this one is not inherently a bad purchase.

Analog Rack
Orders faade
thru-out midi in
Full output
sounds "a little" ditables

... Ect ...

Some are more for me dous CHARACTERISTICS

UTILIZATION

Config rather simple and complements everything nivo, everything was on the front and everything is written, it's a fairly complete truth.

Editing sounds live by knobs except some sounds that use common knobs.

Manuel same, complete.

SOUNDS

Well we go to the most important.

I will aim to:

-Do not expect to have two real TR for 150 eur.! The sounds are less pchus, the edition is different (eg tone of reacions do not see anything)

-No less sequencer machine so that real groovy TR.

Trs-polyphony limit a kick on each beat, two snares, the open and closed charlet a cowbell and not much other, after the lollipop in his hand, it distorts! (I personally play with funny ca)

OVERALL OPINION

I've had 2 years

I like it it is cheap, I have a "sound basis" (kick round the charlet ...), for beginners it is funny but in a studio that has started to build, it does take the dust ...

qualitprix trs, although it is worth its 150 eur. (It can be cheaper)

I do not know if I do it again this choice with the exprience, but I, I keep it, I play well with it, I fill effects, c how funny ...
I repeat again, those who want a TR paschere will not be satisfied, or else you really not be a purist and this time the better to obtain the samples of TR.

accuracy compared to the previous opinion: it is a digital module which emulates the analog

UTILIZATION

it's a bit annoying to have the 88 and 99 on the same knob, the ideal is to have the machine dual ...

the edit menu is not super friendly but not the design is a bit to be said

SOUNDS

I'd just a small addition compared to the previous opinion ...

sounds have no potato when using the output L / R because each must have its small-3dB accompanying order not to saturate the output of that in several stacks on the same channel

on the other hand if you use it wisely separated out day and night, the dynamic is excellent, and make a mix with is a real pleasure

and for comparing same with good samples or other emulation of TR, I sincerely believe that it nicely canarde

I never tater after the real ...

OVERALL OPINION

except that no sequencer is an excellent product, which sounds simple, it is true to TR? I dunno, but it's a great bar for those who appreciate the basic sounds of electro and techno

Apart from some concern on the side of the PSU, I have to go from 12V instead of 9, and I've already spent 4, I have nothing against him

this is my main bar, and it will remain as the Roland TR does not reissue a fair price, I think even buy me a second to separate the 88 and 99 completely