via uucuu in the comments of this Drumfire auction post:"i love the drum fire, very unique and crunchy sound, and lots of fun to chain the channels together on the DF-500. The 2-channel rack DF-2000 is a bit more flexible with a noise filter and waveshape control. I just dug up a demo I did from 2001 and put it up temporarily on virb.com: the only encoding I found of it was a 160kbps, which isn't great but here it is anyway. I think this was only the Drumfire and Metasonix Hellfire just live tweaking."
Not sure you can judge it's character with so extreme processing going on. Like would samples of analog drums not sound that different through the hellfire?
ReplyDeleteBut I'm still curious, in the world of analog drum brains (I have Simmons, Tama and MPC myself), what does it have that makes it stand ou?
well, there is a page with straight samples up (not mine, do a search for "drumfire" on matrix) but the sounds tend to shift to the really cheesy in a bad way--when the pitch sweeps much or at higher pitch than very low! To me this great for the really crunchy noise(noise gen) sounds--not sure what drum that resembles an evil snare crash? And the reallly low kick bass drum sounds--especially when a few channels are chained together, you can adjust how closely they trigger somewhat with the sens pot.
ReplyDeleteI only thought of this track I did with it from 2001 because someone pointed out PanSonic used one and I think you can hear it here. Even with the Hellfire on it, I think it's "sound" comes through. So it does have a very limited range but the thick rolling bass sounds and the crunchy noise snare are unlike other the other elec drums I've used.
Maybe, I'll do a demo that is more a "demo"
The united kingdom version was known as the frontline x-2 same machine as the DF-2000, see my auction.
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