LXR-02 Digital Drum Synth firmware update 1.2 is now available! It adds micro-timing, ratchets, synth parameter editing in performance mode, new FX and bunch of fixes.

Stimming is the Bob Ross of synthesizer gear videos. I'm not always sure I like what I hear but then he turns one knob and it becomes a masterpiece. Great guy!

Finally a Microtonic worthy hardware soundalike! Volca Drums was in the right direction, but lacked a few things. This one is just almost 🤩

Erica Synths just confirmed that there will be a major firmware update incl. micro timing very soon!

Mr. Stimming. You’re so at home on drum machine! A pleasure to watch and listen! Thank you.

Stimming has such an intimate and down to earth vibe I love ❤️ almost like watching a cooking show vs a dry technical video

What a treat for the upcoming weekend, been waiting for this review 😁 Stimming’s review always pump me with inspiration to beat the crap out of my gears lol

Love the personality Stimming adds to these reviews/demos. Cheers guys.

@Sense Music & Media Your demo has made me fall in love with this drum synth. This is an absolute mega beast.

Stimming is pure magic. I even watch his videos that are only in German. And I don't speak German. Good job, sir.

I have bought the LXR-02 but not unboxed it yet.Stimming's reviews are great,always honest ,comical and knowledgeable.

Great review. Sound reminds me a bit of the MicroTonic plug-in. I hope they will keep improving the software with updates.

You can tell within first 3 minutes how Stimming feels. I just love the remaining vid where he explains why. Stimming is the fucking man.

I like weird and aggressive sounds it makes - very inspiring! I think you flatlined it at the end!

I have the DB-01 from Erica and love it. This looks like the same hardware housing. The pair would be great for a live set.

Enjoying the Stimming impromptu dancing mid review

What's esp. useful about Stimming's reviews is the empirical honesty. He looks for what a machine is good at, which is always more important than what it's meant to do. Still thinking about the LXR-02. And I'm wondering if any VSTs come close to the sound, since programming doesn't look as intuitive as I'd prefer. I really appreciate what Stimming said about the Model:Cycles and the Digitone. I've been torn between the M:C and the TR8S ever since the latter acquired FM synthesis. Perhaps the LXR is the best option sonically for digital FM drums.

every time I watch stimming do a drum machine review it makes want to buy the drum machine. Why do I do this to myself....

I just love the honesty in your rewievs! Oh, and if you still need 'another guy doing melodic stuff', (32:25) I would do it. Thanks for a lot of great videos.

I'd like to see you review the Jomox Alpha Base

Great demo, you are having fun!

This is the best review so far. Great info and right into a little jam.

Great review thank you and you made me smile :-) The user interface seems a little awkward but I think it'll be worth spending a good few days getting to know it. The sonic potential seems endless. For me this is what the Nord Drum should've been...if Nord added even a basic sequencer to the ND2 they would've made a killing. Marry the LXR-02 with a Roland and you have the perfect match. Thanks again

such great reviews, thank-you, saved me some money

I love your reviews man. When you took the preset, slowed it down, then removed the drive you then said, "Now I like it!" I agree with you. Just a taste issue. However, the tight, punchy, fm'y percs sounds good and with great potential. Like you, I would like microtiming as well...use it on all my elektron boxes for looseness.

Love your reviews man.. proper honest reviewing

Pure Freude ich sehe und höre Stimming immer wieder gerne voll sympathisch der Typ

I love this guy as much as this machine

I hear quite a bit of overlap between this and the Volca Drum that I already own. I like that the Volca can synthesize natural-sounding drums in addition to the harshly digitally aliased ones we hear throughout this demo. Both sound amazing on the low end. This sounds maybe a bit fuller in the mids. But the Achilles heel of both is that they struggle to produce pleasing high frequencies. The highs don't integrate with the upper mids - they always sound detached, like a graphic equalizer with the right-most slider maxed out. Forget about creating a convincing cymbal without a lot of struggle.

Laughed out loud at "Of course this sounds shit." Classic Stimming.

You are one cool dude! Love the Vid! Thanks for the review!

Total wizard, man. Thank you for your reviews.

Excellent and honest review. I like heavy music so this would be a great synth to pair with my Digitone and modular drums! This and Perkons would be a lot of fun. My only concern is how good is the MIDI connectivity and operation if I want to sync with Electron sequencer to control it easier? I have had a lot of head aches sequencing gear over MIDI due to different standards and setup issues.

Love the flatline at the end 😂

I like how you struggle with the machine haha quite fun and comforting to see

Another great video. Thank you so much. Wow, not being able to play a sound manually while tweaking it is a big oversight I think. Let’s hope they fix that.

New ear-mode unlocked: "bleeding" Nice demo, I chose to watch this with earphones and when you tweaked the distortion my ears panicked 😅

Great review for a great machine!

Ah - that ending. Spot-on.

nice review, thanks, do you think the LXR-02 would work well being played/paired with Digitakt's or Octatrack's MIDI sequencer?

Stimming reviews are the best

Got a keen eye on this im sure all the short commings will be adressed. Some basic sample loading of one shots would be nice like the MDUW this seems to be that with just less track count. Thanks for the review subbed !!

Stimming is so incredibly good at showing what is great and what could be great about any music machine .. Bravo.. and yes I ordered it immediately after he said.. “Erica Synths probably said .. let’s make it dirty…” LOL

Ah some of the sounds do sound like my nord drum 2. They will play great together, both having 6 voices too

Stimming likes the dnb kind of beatz. Nice one Mr. Stimming

i think this will fit my needs! im looking for a drum synth with a wide range of sound sculpting, not just a sample player with limited tweakability like a tr 8s. im looking for a true drumsynth with a nice sequencer and i think this fits the bill! i just hope the menu diving isn't too annoying. thank you for your videos!!

I know he wants to go into another direction. But Stimming would only need an LXR and his Tanzbär to be amongst the top Techno/industrial liveacts world wide. Protect Martin at all costs.

I’m always up for a Stimming review, hopefully you’ll get to do the Roland SP-404 mk2 would love to get your opinion.

Looks like the most fun ever

it sounds awesome, looks playable. hefty price tag imho, things cost what they cost who am I to second guess what it takes to make market and supply a piece of equipment like that. Maybe Im saying I would be more of a buyer for something with these sounds and this workflow but for around the 300 mark....

Stimming needs to review the liven xfm!

Micro timing would’ve made this a slam dunk. Thanks for another slapping review

I’m still on the sideline about weather to get this thing or not. It’s just crazy the grit, glitch, crunch and thump and how deep the synth engine is. It’s like a Korg er1 on some strong steroids aha. And i always come back to this demo to see the way your head turns and jaw goes Sideways as your jamming and tweaking out aha . Makes the Sound demo more cooler. I could imagine playing this thing on some psychedelics aha I’d fly the entire cosmos and back.

i think i like the og better, but your moves are tight! 🕺🏻

If this had an unquantized mode, track delay or micro timing the other limitations and design choices would make it worth it.

Thanks lieber FMartin

Jul is a genius in many ways

Awesome review ✌️

Roland has multiple digital drum machines and groove boxes as were mentioned at the beginning but not at the end. I think the TR-08S is a really good drum machine for the money. For smaller size and cost, their TR-06S looks pretty nice but I don't have that one. Then there is the little PO-32. There is something charming about the sound of this LXR-02; it could be some of Stimming's charm rubbing off on me, too. It sort of reminds me of Microntonic (and the PO-32) with maybe a little more noise.

The end was fucking hilarious

Aphex twin sounds!!

Great review as always. So it's basically the LXR (a great drum machine btw) with sliders?

I'm about completely made up... The LXR-02 needs to replace my Model:Cycles. My Sonicware 8bw, XFM, ZOIA, and Microcosm, are screaming for this new friend........ 😁👍

like a smaller Machinedrum

Great! Is it possible to make your own kit by using sounds from different kits? Thanks!

ok fine, i'll buy *one* now

Wonderful choice of topic as always.

Is that a clavichord in the background? 😍

This is very much Volca Drum meets TR8S!

A buddy what sequencer is the best to master all my gear????

Hey Martin Kannst du bitte bitte mal den Roland SH4D für uns auschecken!?! Wir brauchen deine uneingeschränkte Meinung 👻

There’s a lotta menu diving on this little box…

hi guys, i bought an lxr last month on second hand and there is juste 13 kits left, does anyone now how to get them back please???

cool!

Der Main out und out ist bei mir wenn ich in Ableton aufnehmen möchte viel zu leise !? Ich muss über die MIC Eingänge gehen… ist das normal ?

It looks and sounds interesting. Though it's definitely not five hundred bucks worth of interesting. I'm not sure what justifies the pricetag of thrice the cost of a Volca Drum.

And P.S. I would like to know if some peep here could compare with the Nord Drum 1/2/3 ... @Stimming , the only comparison is there ! not other drum synth is more near to LXR than NOrd Drum

does it have separate channel outputs to add some external effect pedals on separate channels? Thanks. Great video

Can you record in real time drumming without sequencer style ?

Did I hear you say the kick waveform isn't reset on note on? Surely not?

No way to manually trig is totally insane. Hope they'll add this 'feature' in a firmware upgrade.

It's damn cool, but definitely like the sound of the original LXR better. This one sounds like a plugin in comparison.

17:14 - 17:16 😵‍💫🥴😂🤪Stimming the Greatest

Only to use in hard core techno but than really Let’s go

Hey Martin, do you know if its possible to save the waveform in the LFO between two different patterns ?? i've been trying to save the pattern and saving the project but every time that i change to a different pattern it affect to all patterns. For example i'm trying to have a LFO waveform XDN in pattern 1, and have a LFO waveform SIN in pattern 2, but everytime i change pattern it affect all patterns. Any idea how to do that?? Thanks in advance

still no sub steps like the LXR-01?

Very thorough overview; I was quite curious about how this compares to the original LXR (which I have and feel is quite a unique drum synth). With the v1.2 update, do you have any opinion on whether this is easier to work with than the original?

You sure it’s rectangle and not rectified sine?

Mr. Director! Lol

XLR original had micro timing and 128 steps total instead of 64. I never get reductions in newrversions of an hardware. I actually think is unfair. I'm very very fashinated by this machine and the previous of course . I did know the XLR 01 since its plastic enclosure and always found it very clever. I don't see many many progressions on this second version but the few on the 02 are very very notable . Sincerelly I think that the 6/7 tracks of XLR-02 could be instead 7/8 tracks ( they fit better everywhere :P ) .... and its pity Erika synths didn't implemented a sample player ( like the Korg drumlogue ) : sure this can't be never updated , and is like meeh :/ . It is too little , really. Why so tiny ? need it ? why ?? I would have make a bigger screen and 8 encoders ( beatuiful encoders by the way of Erika Synths , thank you) . I truly think XLR1 & 2 have to be more the two in one , instead two different version of the same thing. I gonna wait a bit more to see what happens on that cus I like it REALLY the XLR A LOT !!!!! thank you for the review Stimming.

Erica, if you add microtiming and ability to trig sounds while editing I will buy this immediately. Otherwise, it’s a nonstarter for me. Please!

Hi! Thouse cables! Wich company is it?

The db-01 is such a great piece of hardware so I am totally biased towards anything Erica makes. Build quality feels like you could keep it for several dozens of years. Workflow sounds a bit counter-intuitive on this one, but it does still sound like a super interesting device! Thanks for the review.

Hey! I cant really stand Daws, thinking between Erica LXR 02 vs Electron DIGITAKT. Which would you reccomend guys? Thanks

first LIKE and than view the clip :D

I'm sorry I love erica synths. But I'm just not blown away by this thing in the least bit. None of the sounds really excite me. Reminds me of the drum machines I heard in reaktor 15 years ago.

I feel like there's lots of sonic potential here that is let down by a clunky UI. I was interested in this one but might wait for a few more software updates. 😔

This thing reminds me 100% of Microtonic vst.

Is stimming going to adopt me?

I like the clean clicky sounds, just don't like distortion, seems every gear manufacturer is obsessed with distortion at the moment.