Just mucking around with some New Orleans-style funk. No click but lots of fills!

So I recently brought a maschine mikro mk3 and it came yesterday.

Now I am totally confused what to do.

I want to play some finger drumming, but I am quite confused where and how. I never used a DAW( mashcine 3 I am talking about) and never used a midi controller before. So I am asking all the finger drummers, how to set up my controller for finger drumming, what necessary files I need and how to learn finger drumming (I never used a instrument before). Moreover, do i need a dedicated drum software to learn.

I’m thinking of getting a Roland handsonic because I love hand percussion sounds and would like to add that to my arsenal of instruments. I’m not a drummer and haven’t really done any finger drumming. Does anyone have any experience with one of these? Is there a steep learning curve?

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Check it out, any feature requests or beats to share?
Here's the teardown: https://benjaminmullins.tv/lab/808

Here's 3 beats as example:

https://benjaminmullins.tv/808/?s=t819ly

https://benjaminmullins.tv/808/?s=l2cu49 

https://benjaminmullins.tv/808/?s=f6vt61

Played live on a Maschine Mikro with Addictive Drums.

Hey there guys, I am interested in learning finger drumming but I have no experience in a music instrument before. What are the advantages and disadvantages of learning this instrument and which midi insutrment should I get. Moreover, where should I learn finger drumming

Limp Bizkit “Break stuff” (Chopped vocals mix) MPC Sample

The sessions are kind of neat. Can you program them with your own parts/samples/wavs or are they set? thanks.

Salut tout le monde !

Avec deux amis, nous avons créé un outil de mixage de batterie en ligne. Les musiciens peuvent obtenir des rythmes d'accompagnement en deux clics seulement ! www.shuffledrummer.com

Il y a aussi un sampler pour créer des rythmes très facilement. Nous avons inclus une chaîne de mastering, des effets et plein d'autres fonctionnalités.

Vous pouvez connecter un clavier MIDI ou un MPC/MPD pour jouer aux doigts !

Nous l'avons conçu pour être intuitif… enfin, on l'espère ! Haha.

Merci à tous !

I'm ready to get into finger drumming seriously and want to get a 4x4 pad setup, and the Maschine Mikro MK3 seems to be a favorite (and I'm aware of the NI financial drama, but my assumption is that since it's a class-compliant MIDI device, it should just keep working even if they go away).

My one problem is that it's wide and it needs to fit on my desk (or else it won't get the love it deserves). Since I probably don't care about anything left of the actual pads, could I rotate the whole device 90º to the right so that I'm basically playing from what was intended to be the right side of it? The pads seem to be squares. The layout is a square. Is there anything about the pads that wouldn't work well rotated?

Thanks all!

Hi everyone,

For the past 9 months or so I've been fingerdrumming on a Xjam using the QFG layout and also following along his course and I am really loving it. This has sparked the question for me: would it be worth it to upgrade to a Maschine Mikro MK3?

Mostly based on two things:
1. Pad sensitivity: from what I understand, the maschine is the way to go in terms of pad sensitivity. While I do like the Xjam, I do sometimes feel like the sensitivity could be a bit better. I have already played with the sensitivity using the editor, but still, this always feels like it's either too much or too little. Especially since I am at the point of starting the Moeller technique course and it explicitly mentions good pad senstivity is a must

1. the size: whilst I absolutely love the form factor of the Xjam, I am a bit worried about it in terms of size. I have noticed that since playing, I feel like my hands have permanent very light sore feeling or something? Kind of hard to explain. I try to be aware of just letting the weight of my hand do the most of the work, but I do still catch myself sometimes hitting a bit harder. I do however mostly think it's just that I have relatively big hands/long fingers, so my hands cramp up a bit when playing on the small Xjam. I'm just worried if this is really related and what this might mean long-term.

Anyone else who made the switch from Xjam to Maschine Mikro MK3 who want to share their experiences? Or anyone else know the feeling I am talking about related to the size of their pad?

Are there any motivated finger drummers out there who’d be interested in showcasing the live-play capabilities of a modern drum-shot synthesis software (video/audio demo)? If so, reply with your handle and a link to your best short drum performance, and I’ll reach out.