Korg Drumlogue - Feature FAQ and Full Beatmaking Workflow 

Why does this sound sooooo much better in your demo than others? Really has a Linndrum vibe. And why aren’t Korg employing you to do their marketing?! Got a better understanding of it in your first few minutes than from their entire site. Big thanks

I’ve watched a ton of Drumlogue videos today and this is the best! Easily the best one which actually “worked” the unit 🙏🏽✊🏽✌🏽

Nice! Having new HW drum machines in 2022 is beautiful.

Thank you for this! Super informative and on top of that LOVE the energy with which you’ve presented the content. Your voice is so lovely to listen to and learn from. Sending much love 🙏🏼🤍✨

I’m playing Hansel’s Messiah at an insane volume on my hi-fi right now! It’s finally here! I’ve been waiting for this thing and it looks sick!

I never expected another Logue product. Awesome! I'm still very happy with my Mini XD

What I would give to be part of the community that receives these ahead of release!! How fantastic!

Nice, already had forgotten this.

Woohoo at last you have been recognised and been given something to review! Brilliant 😉

Thanks for the demo, I’m looking to upgrade my volca beats this seems to do everything I want and more.

Korg makes intuitive machines 🚀

yooo, love that mix you have at the beginning. good feelings

Groovy.

lets goooo!! The minilogue XD was a very 'meh' synth to me before I took advantage of the user oscillators+fx. Now it's one of my all time favorites. So excited for that similar function in a drum machine! Though I was somewhat under the impression that the implementation would be a bit deeper (i.e. covering more voices). Still looking forward to what folks will come up with for the user osc slot.

waw new korg machine it is very beautiful cool thank you for sharing

sounds nice tbh, glad theyve gone in the hybrid direction its interesting not really for me but can see this on lots of desks

Really tasty pattern you have created there at 01:06:00! Great review. Thanks!

I’m liking this... towards the end when the multi engine came in the vibe shifted to an underground menacing beast... I like it 😃

Hard to tell till you get your hands on something, but this looks like a neater machine than the TR8-s. Had one for a while, did what I wanted on paper but in practice it left me cold. Good to see multiple outs.

Say what you will but when he cranked up the drive on the bass drum I was like that's worth a few hundred right there

Usb drive mode to manage the samples sounds so nice

Nice review and I imagine I’ll be getting one as soon as funds allow. As a big fan of the Volca Drum I was hoping for a few Digital oscillators to make it across to the Drumalogue, I imagine they will pop up via the LogueSDK but it’s a shame they couldn’t lose a sample track or two to fit in some in.

I know limited storage for samples is a thing that we put up with, but I'm really tired of seeing storage sizes that were possible in the 80s. 32mb. Eh. The brightest point for me is that you don't have to use their worst in the world librarian software with this box. Way to go, Korg.

Handy it works with the nanoKontrol2 👍

Thank you for explaining how to load the user samples! I couldn’t find any info anywhere else on how to start up the drum machine with the rec button on.

Would be great if they released a companion piece of gear (like moog did) That would basically be a four track Minilogue XD (one of my all time fav pieces of gear) groovebox. Btw I have no idea how people could have a problem with the XD sound - that’s beyond my comprehension

will pass prob till Drumlogue MK2

This sounds good! I'm a little disappointed because when I first heard that it was going to be a hybrid analogue/digital synth, I was expecting the capacity for more weird sounds like what you get out of the Volca Drum... This sounds a lot more "traditional" than I expected, but that isn't necessarily bad! It sounds great even if it isn't as esoteric as I had hoped. Maybe some logue sdk oscillators will help make up for that anyway.

I think a lot of negative takes I’ve seen about the tone of this thing don’t realize how novel a small drum machine that behaves itself as well as this one does is

Fair review. It’s not something that’s going to drag me away from my Digitakt/Model:Cycles combo anytime soon though. I was quite surprised at the lack of LFOs in there but hey ho…

Does it respond to Program Change? Does it send PC on program/kit select?

Gives it a Plugin for Ableton per Usb with i can controll the Machine via Usb Plugin?

thanks for your review of this sleek new Korg drum machine, on that 1 part that could be a synth? would that one voice be essentially the same as the DIY Korg NTS-1? organic quality.

I have the problem that the tempo knob is insanely fiddely.. It takes super long to have the tempo adjusted to what I want since it is always reacting too fast or not at all.. Did you experience that too?

Im not sure if I should go for something like Korg or the MFB Tanzmaus

Please help!! I am having trouble with the midi and USB on my Korg Drumlogue! BACKGROUND: So I just unboxed mine. First impressions are that this thing is a step up from my old hardware... which consists of an E-Mu, a MicroKorg, and old Electribe ES-1s!! Out of the box, this thing sounds SICK!! I found noodling in the sequencer fairly intuitive... but I haven't explored all there is to explore with the sequencer. I mean, it's only been a few hours. As great as it sounds, it's not all peaches and cream. I am really confused about the midi... and it has become vexing. ATTEMPTING TO HOOK THE AKAI MPK MINI TO THE DRUMLOGUE: I wanted to use the Akai MPK Mini to play the VPM/Noise/User synth but it does nothing. To clarify, it does receive power from the Drumlogue via the USB device port... the Akai MPK lights up... but doesn't seem to interact with the Drumlogue in any meaningful way. I have tried moving through all of the available channel listings, to no avail. ATTEMPTING TO HOOK THE ARTURIA KEYSTEP TO THE DRUMLOGUE: I also tried using the Arturia Keystep with it via MIDI, but all I can get it to do is play the associated drum parts on the keyboard. Key 15 is the vpm/noise/user synth... but I can't play that chromatically throughout the Arturia Keystep's keyboard. Is there a way to see which sounds are assigned to which channels? Is there a way to make all the keys of the Keystep be chromatically assigned to the VPM/Noise/User synth? The internal sounds are fantastic and I live the analogue drum modeling! The sequencer is great and there is a lot of potential with creating all kinds of fascinating IDM and acid breaks/loops!! But I have hit a brick wall with hooking this thing up to a USB controller or a MIDI controller. Any help would be most appreciated!! ATTEMPTING TO HOOK DRUMLOGUE UP TO COMPUTER: Another issue I am experiencing is that when I hook the USB host port to my computer, nothing happens. I don't think I can hook the USB device port to my computer. 🤔 In all the tutorials out there, the reviewers seem to breeze over the process for hooking the Drumlogue up to another USB or MIDI device. Unless when hooking the Drumlogue to a USB controller like the Akai MPK mini, it really is as easy as 'plug-&-play'... in which case, I'm starting to wonder if my Drumlogue has an issue with its USB ports, right out of the box?!? I welcome any insight that anyone here can provide. Thanks!

They are on clearance at Reverb now for $399.00! Maybe a version 2 is coming with improvements?

Now you have to make it synthesizer!

15:50 So these Transients are (digital) samples mixed into the analog kick drum signal? (Tempest also included this, I think, though they don't have to be used.)

Hi there! Is this new drumloque better than tr8s? Thanks!

I heard so many negative things about this machine. Im liking the sound tbh. I'm a tr707 enjoyer fwiw and prefer the 707 sounds over the 606,808, and 909 tbh. Now that the price has dropped to $500 im considering it especially if I can get one used on the cheap.

Also lost a good track to the Clear Sequence feature of my Digitakt. Would have been such a banger.

Do you still use it? And can you adjust the timing on the notes to early or late like on the digitakt?

This seems like something for me as a first drum machine. I want something that can load and play samples, and a little bit of sound design as well, and I was originally planning on combining the volca drum and sample for that. What do you think? Also loved this video. Liked and subbed ❤

Can you write all this down my heads just exploded.😂

I appreciate this but I feel that restricting instruments to specific engines isn't the way to go. What if I don't want an analog snare or kick? What if I wanted an analog hi hat? With something like the Tempest or Analog Rytm, each voice can have two analog oscillators and two samples, so you can choose to have either or both types of sounds.

Random LFO + probability is way different than motion sequencing + probability. Gonna wait for the price to drop before consideration.

Cool machine but do you have a ton of compression on it in this vid?

Next up : the drumlogue does ambient !

OS I have noticed that lots of YT reviewers. Say that the manufacturer sent them over ‘x’ to review. But hardly any of them state wether they were actually given it, or have to return it. With transparency in mind why do they not state that most times they were given it ? Not having a pop at you as love your channel/content. BUT the fact that folk don’t say up front they were given it. Just looks a bit lame to me.

I wish it was all analog or a mix of analog and digital voices with more parameters to tweak on the surface for each drum voice. We don't need another piece of gear to load samples into. Just a waste of space. They are def going to have to do something about that kick drum. It's booty butt cheeks.

It’s really going to be up to the multi osc. Not sure how this can compete with TR8s unless the analog kick is really that much better which I can’t evaluate even with headphones on line.

Ahh uhn uhn ahhh ! yeah....(* I like a tamborine)

Really great video but I do find this machine a bit boring! The Perkons HD-01 is on another level...

Could someone please tell me the best way to connect and record on Logic Pro x??

I just purchased a Korg Nanokey in order to see if the Drumlogue would play nicely with that. So far... they seem to get along. I can finally play a melody, a baseline, noodle about to a beat... but... It won't record the actual melody/notes. Everything note becomes whatever the vpn/nano is showing in the display. And if there is an option to step-sequence note changes... for example from C#2 to A2 or something.... I cannot find such options in the menus. Time to think about the return policy on this thing. It's a shame... there's a lot of potential in Korg's Drumlogue... but at this point, it delivers more frustration than value... especially at $600.00 USD. I'll keep noodling... perhaps my opinion will change.

Are the filters analogue?

A lot of people are already trashing this awesome drum machine. Those people just want to justify what they've just bought lol probably elektron or roland or other korg gears

It doesn't matter how good the UI is and as a drum machine, this is pretty good, but it just sound very average. It doesn't do 1 thing very well, to me it seems to be spread too thinly, trying to do too much when it should have just been a drum machine. It's more expensive than the Model cycles which to me sounds better as a percussive instrument. Maybe the user SDK might bring out something more unique, but it's a pass for me atm.

Ciao come fai a far funzionare il nano control?? A me non funziona i volumi delle singole traccie non fa nulla si accende soli il piccole led che impostazioni devo mettere grazie

What about price? Im torn between digitakt and this one. Syntakt lost me when i found out you can't save patterns.

La grancassa sembra debole non buona per Fare techno 💣??

Wanted to like it, but the size and quality of the screen is really off-putting. Doesn't even look like it fits there with the knobs and you can barely read the text. Sorry Korg, you goofed pretty good on this one.

Good word. Most logs get flushed down toilets..

Just mix it with, I'm Gonna Be 500 Miles

monitor bardzo skromny, szkoda😮

I'm I the only one who thinks it sounds abit shit, really dislike the kicks tone and i would rather have more multi's

it may be 'here', but you can't buy it yet....

Ewwwwwwwwww

Meh 🫤 it’s a volca beats with a better snare low memory no sd card no user synth machines as of yet , needs pc for samples no direct sampling and lots of menu diving I’d rather get a Drum-brute impact for simple drum machine. And no finger drumming or velocity sensitive pads in 2022