Groove Machine Released. Works on Mac and PC

cyberheater · Post by **cyberheater** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:51 pm

This seems to be the spiritual successor to an Electribe.

Check it out.

I just bought it and it's pretty good.

Linky here:-

http://www.image-line.com/documents/groovemachine.html

Blankman8503 · Post by **Blankman8503** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 12:14 am

I was so excited about this when I opened the topic and saw that pic. It looks like it would be an awesome machine to get my hands on.

And then after clicking the link, I realized you can't put your hands on it. If this is the direction grooveboxes are going, ill be hanging one to my tribe forever. The knobs, slider, ribbon are what make the tribes great. I can get better sound and more functionality from Ableton and my APCs, but there's just something that's not the same. There's something that appeals to me about stand alone hardware.

You should check out Ruso's thread on electribe-forum.com about his Groovebox-Ableton hybrid. Another take on the future of groovebox-software integration and it's being built from scratch by a former tribe user.

dandriver · Post by **dandriver** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:05 pm

i also don't really see the benefit of this as a software..
i think a strong point for people who use the electribre is that it is not computer program, but a standalone device.

maybe they should team up with a hardware manufacturing partner & develop it further.

EuroHobbes · Post by **EuroHobbes** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 5:57 pm

I agree that this is would be an excellent machine, if it was a real standalone machine. Now it's actually a step back. I can sequence better in Ableton or even Propellerhead Reason.

And it's not that intuitive imho.

tpantano · Post by **tpantano** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:16 pm

Here's the thing; I'm not anti-software and am mostly moving towards it entirely.

But something like this makes no sense. There are much better GUIs for software drum machines; making software that looks like a physical model is, well, just inefficient.

hazabikit · Post by **hazabikit** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 2:03 pm

tpantano wrote:making software that looks like a physical model is, well, just inefficient.

Good point. Different platforms require different interfaces.

Besides, where's the arpeggitaor in that thing?

clownfool · Post by **clownfool** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:09 am

If this Groove Machine was hardware, I bet most of us couldn't afford it,, at least me....