What Nobody Says about the DrumBrute // 3 Drumbrute Tips 

"in nature the closed hat takes precedence.." I think as I wander through fields and forests of high-hats gently swaying in the summer breeze

Thanks for that little hack on the hats! Never really thought of that before, but it's easy to overlook since I have it for only a week now. I do like to point out that the Drumbrute is a fantastic drummachine with a very flexible sound engine and that only very few videos on RU-vid did its sound justice. People call the sounds weak, but they really are not! RU-vid compression muffles the raw sound a lot and I find that a lot of videos tweak the sounds way too fast and too extreme. That way you never hear its sweet spots! Besides that, the thing has outs, so you can easily fatten up the sounds! It's almost like people have forgotten that our trusty 808s and 909s were heavily post-processed to make its sound really stand out in the songs we love. This machine will be a future classic, if not for its sound it would be for its sequencer! I know that my Drumbrute will be in my studio for years to come! :)

Your video was great, I've owned the Drumbrute for a while and i think the Accent page is where the machine comes alive. When the Drumbrute first came out most of the RU-vid reviewers completely forgot to use it. Then people were complaining that it sounded weak but they just didn't learn the machine.

Many people don't like the DrumBrute, but I think it's a future classic. I'll never get rid of mine. Would love to see more videos!

This video was immensely educational without wasting much time or over-explaining either. I have a Drumbrute coming in the mail so I'll keep watching your tutorials if you make more!

Would absolutely like some more vids on the DB.

Re. your comment at 5:30: Yes, the open and closed hats are the same circuit. The CH choking the OH is the only difference.

The trick with filling all 1/8 notes while recording when holding 1/8 note beat-repeat button is fantastic! thank you so much.

The DI is my only drum synth, and I made a couple of videos recreating classic beats with it. Thanks for going into detail about the Drumbrute, it deserves more attention than it gets!

I love the drumbrute, for house & techno it’s a must!

Thanks for the vids bro! The great majority of providers of this type of material offer me nothing and frequently actively annoy me with their blatantly obvious lack of preparation, their dismal communication skills (or lack thereof), and their inability to present a lesson while maintaining any degree of focus or continuity. Your material however is clearly presented and the content has useful info more often than not. Keep up the good work.

I like to use the cymbal as an open (or closed) hi-hat. Thank you for these tips! I didn’t know you could set swing to individual steps. Can’t wait until I get home from work so I can play around with my Brute. Love your videos, they’re so chill and very informative at the same time. Keep up the good work. Love from the north of Sweden.

oh duuuuude!! That knowledge about the closed hat choking the open hat is most excellent. I always thought there was some weird quirk with my drumbrute. THANK YOUUUUUU!

It's really great when someone really gets to grips with a piece of kit and is prepared to share what makes it musical for them. See a drummer at work, we can all appreciate the nuance of their playing but a drum machine or a groove box? That moment; 2' 03"; when you-almost absent mindedly-played in those few notes and this magical little swung latin thing suddenly emerged, it was a lightbulb moment for me. I'm the world's worst finger drummer, so ...cool, I need to get into that. Thank you, Enrique!

Swapping the open/closed hats is a great tip. I also prefer having the open hat on top. Another important unmarked shift feature is shift + step 9 to switch between looper and roller mode on the touch strip. When it's in roller mode, you touch the strip and press one (or more) of the drum pads and it will roll them.

I'd love to see some tips of programming drums for house music, shuffling tips, etc on the Digitakt, drumbrute or any drum machine! And great video as usual Mr. Martinez!

Great video and great use of common sense to switch around open and closed hihat if you don't want a natural choke of the open and closed hihat.

Good idea with the hats. Gonna try that tonight.

the hat hint is dope. thank you very much.

I have a Drumbrute and I really love the sound. Would totally welcome more videos on it as I think it’s been strangely overlooked by impatient folk. This machine has depth and serious sound. I am ashamed I did not work out the hats trick though :facepalm. I obviously need your videos!

That hi-hat swap/workflow tip is friggin smart! Nice vid.

Yes Ricky. Good format,right video and 3 solid points that everyone misses out. I certainly didn't realise you could multi select hits for the timing shift, well useful. And the hat swap trick is an obvious notion but important to give people permission to do so. I should add to anyone liking for better info on the dB one other point everyone misses out on... If you want to be at 90bpm and apply swing like 90bpm hip hop but run a dnb beat... Hold shift +5 to run the sequence at 32_notes .. Also in this scenario you've got more notes to play with quantise off you can afford to play in triplets!! (where as at 180bpm only 16 notes are stored)

Loved this, please do more! I think the drumbrute has great parameter ranges, and with all the outputs you can do great processing of the individual sound with e.g. guitar pedals or outboard (or modular). I own a number of drum machines and I like the drumbrute a lot, in my opinion it has the best sequencer hands down.

That third tip is the kind of tip i appreciate the most. I love learning genre specific style tips, but with the gear i have. I tend to let limitations mold my music too often and just let other gear take over the hats and kick. That's silly though, because i actually love the drumbrutes hats, toms, and maraccas. Wouldn't mind hearing a track utilizing the toms more. Thats the kind of stuff that inspires me. Seeing and hearing how other people use instruments i tend to shy away from.

Amazing! Great ideas with the High Hats man - genius. Keep up the great work, and please consider doing some DrumBrute sound design tutorials. Cheers.

3:50 Gotta Theo Parrish feel. Love the vids Ricky. Keepem coming

Really informative. Hope you did more videos for the DBI. I'll be sure to check

( David Attenborough voiceover) " As the unsuspecting open hihat peacefully feeds in the forest glade unaware of the dominant closed hihat skipping its way through the beat to choke it." I like Tip 3 I'll be using it with my ER mk2.

obviously this was the best vid dude

I love the new design of the drumbrute and minibrute 2

And here I was thinking I knew my gear! Thanks.

The Drumbrute is a great drum machine. It's my go to drum machine and the brain of my hardware setup. At present it controls my Sub37 and my Circuit via MIDI and I am going to try using clock from it to control my Prologue as of next week once I get back from this weekends shows

2:00 That is actually a sick beat Ricardo 💁

Great vid. I hadn't even heard of these features on the DB until now...

Nice one with the hats! That has always bugged me

Great tips. Very useful video. More like this please.

Thanks, would love to see you do more videos on the DB.

Cool ricky! i do the same thing with the hi hats except with the drumbrute impact, same thing happens.. cheers from mexico city!! i love your videos, and i will start uploading my analog videos soon!

I like that choking effect . gives it a third Hat .

I like the korg er1 mk2... yes I know ... but I love the sounds and it’s delay

for a while i was really thinking about getting a set of eurorack drum modules even though i knew it would be way expensive and limited compared to a drum machine but i think i'm gonna grab this instead to be honest. it sounds awesome and analog and has individual outs and way more voices than anyone could need. dope.

brilliant idea with the hats! thanks mate

This was very helpful. Thank you.

Interesting, still applying a formula, I have been playing without a formula all my life , if you like it that’s all that matters , we need to escape from being robots , and do things however we like it , in the natural world most things are random , like wind chimes changing with the direction of the wind ect , love the video …

hats off!

love this guy

I really enjoy watching your videos! Well done!

this was very helpful thank you

Nice tips. Just bought one of them these after selling 2 much more expensive drum machines. Think I've made a decent choice

Great video. Def share the knowledge. Tip #3✌️

Hey Ricky, do you still rock the DB? I'm really jonesing for a jammable drum machine like this, and I'm leaning heavily to the DB. The Impact is cool and does admittedly sound a bit better in some contexts, but damn if the loss in tweakability isn't a deal breaker for me.

i was able to get a used one of these for like 240$, hoping i can find some love with it

I like my db but I’m watching videos so that I can love my db

Always liked the videos. Cant tell if u sold out or not tbh. So now not sure if recommendations are recommendations or shills

Would love to see you break out the drumbrute in a future jam.

Good job on the choke thing ..way better for house/techno..it was kind of annoying to me really ..that the OH was cut of by the CH. I guess it will also work on the inpact ...sure hope so, thanks anyways.

Stop to ask people to thumb down !! XD ; awesome tips, great vidéo :) cheers from france

Not sure why there aren't any videos on how to set it up with an audio box. I can't hear a thing!

I love the drumbrute I just wish there was a way to save patches without having to retweak all the knobs for different patterns

They are the same there's a video saying it's one chokes the other since it's the same hat being opened and closed

Cheers on rocking the Chemex for coffee!

Coll tricks, many thanks!

Great vid. Really appreciate it! Undecided what to get lol

I love u bruh! i just picked up the impact

Nice demo ! Would like to see you pair the DB with Novation Mono Station.

DB reminds me of John frusciante's solo music

Great stuff. Enjoyed the energy of your voice; reminds me of MindSmash channel. Keep up the sharing. Thanks!

Would like some more DB Videos, maybee what is possibel with the single out's

this was good

Love the Drumbrute vid!!!

Great and inspiring lesson! Do you have ever done any video talking bout the differences between the DrumBrute and the DrumBrute Creatio one? I ask myself if everything you've done at this video can be done at the non Creation one. Is it possible? Thanks, Ricky!! I'm looking for some drumMachine to buy and very pleased with the Arturia ones.

Thanks

More vids! :O This one ruled, I had no idea about unquantized.

Title mentions the DB Impact, but how can you pull off the open/closed hat trick on it? It doesn't have a decay control on the closed hat, just tone. Curious for an update on that since you seem to be using the DB Impact more now.

Holy shit. Never knew about the individual step swing shit. Only took 2 years of ownership to know that was even a thing lol...

Killer tips my main youtube dude. One of the first things I'll try when I finally get the machine. By the way, not sure what people think about this, but I clearly preferred the drumbrute sounds to the drumbrute Impact's (now that I've compared them in a store)

Where did you get the little mask? It’s awesome

Helpful!

Ricky master! excelent video... I need your help please! I need a drummachine for minimal music. So i have a different options: - Analog Rythm MK2 - Drumbrute + Digitakt - Tanzbar 2 For micro House which one do you recommend me please!!?

Hi. It is possibile to control elektron machinedrum via MIDI with a drumbrute to achieve polyrhythms from machinedrum? What do you think?

what is a difference between drumbrute impact and creation ?

how does it play with other devices? I would love to see how you can use this machine to trigger other sounds in Ableton or Circuit or any external machine. I really like the ability to play poly rythms on this machine.

Really enjoy your videos, excellent work. I'm looking to buy a drum machine. Anything new on the market in this style that you would suggest better than DrumBrute ? For some reason the kick drum never sounds very good to me on the demos I've seen. It could be due to youtube audio compression or something. I've been having a hard time lately creating drums in Ableton and I think I need a more hands-on method utilizing something similar to this Drumbrute. I think I'd prefer this version of Drumbrute to the new impact version because of more drum variety plus I'm pretty sure I'll not be needing a cowbell. Any advice greatly appreciated.

Hi Ricky, do you still use the DrumBrute? I'm curious as to what is better in 2021, in your opinion.

Do you like the original Drumbrute or the Drumbrute Impact better?

How do you time-shift the notes that you create in unquantized mode, when these notes do not appear on the step grid, even when using the finest resolution available?

Nods to the MPC3000 SE (J Dilla Edition) on the design here

I’m looking at one of these and I do a lot of sampling. Do you think that I can benefit from having one of these ???

does this work with the normal drumbrute as wel?

Any difference between the "creation edition" and the original?

Gawd does it do unquantised or not. He wasn't clear on that.

Could you use this in conjunction with the Digitone?

One would think this has tips for the db impact but the third one doesn't apply :(

THIS OR THE MODEL CYCLES? FOR DRUM MACHINE? any other synth drum machines?

What is the difference between the original Drumbrute and this Creation version?

just got mine for 200euros, still trying to figure out how to make snare and hat rolls

Hey, I like to ask a question on your opinion if that's cool? I'm in the market to get a drum machine. And I'm really looking at the drumbrute, the drumbrute impact, or the Behringer 808 clone. I love that the regular drumbrute has two different kicks and two toms, but I really like the snare Of the "impact" and the fact that it has distortion on it. I do more kind of harder industrial stuff. I like to ask what do you think? Thank you!🙏✌

How much coffee do you drink? Thanks for helpin me decide i wanna buy one of these two (y)

In a real drum set, you can't play the hi hat opened and closed at the same time, the closed hi hat sound stops when you open it and vice versa, the drumbrute hi hat behaves as a real drumkit, I love you trick to avoid this! thanks!

Does the Beatstep Pro have the same sequencer as the Drum Brute?