South Brent, United Kingdom
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Vermona DRM1 Mk III. This is the standard edition with the plastic knobs, but it has the trigger inputs fitted. Originally bought from Thomann in 2014 as a MIDI-only DRM1, the previous owner bought the trigger kit directly from Vermona a few years later and retrofitted it himself.There was a problem with the on/off switch, so I have fixed it to be permanently set to on. It doesn't affect the working of the unit at all, but I have reduced the price to reflect this The DRM1 can confuse people initially because it doesn’t try to shepherd you down the route of creating sounds in the 808/909 envelope. All the drum voices have seven parameters, and the range is often extremely wide, so there’s a huge amount of voicings on offer. It’s really more of an unpitched synth than a narrowly defined drum module. It always has tremendous amounts of punch and attack, and it can easily helm the drums for a track on its own; you just have to do a bit more fiddling.Features-wise, what you see is more or less what you get, but it has a few hidden tricks that are worth mentioning. The individual ¼” jack outputs per voice on the front panel are great for quickly patching individual sounds, but they are also TRS sockets that allow you to take voices out individually to FX loops and bring them back into the main mix. This is of limited use when tracking into a DAW, but it’s good fun when jamming with guitar pedals. The trigger buttons on the front are handy for auditioning sounds and are also used to set the MIDI channel and note. Once you have MIDI assigned, voices will respond to velocity in how loudly they sound, and there are some timbral changes, too.Adding the triggers opens it up a lot, particularly if you have a modular or similar. Anything with a rising edge will trigger, so you can deploy LFOs, clock dividers, logic circuits, etc to get the polyrhythmic craziness going.The DRM1 will enhance any studio, but I’d say it has particular appeal for two groups. If you already have a drum machine that has the basic sounds covered, like a TR8 or a Syntakt, and you’re looking for a second drum source with complementary sounds and a completely different approach to workflow, it’s brilliant in that role. Or if you have a modular setup to which you’d like to add drums, the triggered DRM1 is an excellent one-stop shop that won’t take up precious room in your modular case.
Original Price£475
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New Price£418
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