Superbooth 2025: Vermona DrumDing is an upcoming 6-track analog drum machine, featuring an original voice sampling concept.
Drum machines with original concepts are rare. Some are based on analog or digital synth voices, with a sequencer triggering the sounds. Many also use samples.
The new Vermona DrumDing from Superbooth 2025 is different.
Vermona DrumDing
DrumDing is a new analog drum machine with a unique concept. Vermona uses an original hybrid concept that I have never seen before.
The core of the Veroma DrumDing is an analog drum voice, consisting of a VCO, FM, multimode VCF, mixer with envelopes, and a master section. According to the developers, the circuit is partly based on the popular Vermona DRM1 Mk4 drum machine.
You would trigger this analog voice with a sequencer in classic drum machines. It’s different here. DrumDing has an original but simple sampling function that samples the analog voice and converts it into a playable instrument.
If you want to change or tweak the sound, you must sample the sound again. It’s a unique workflow that some people will certainly like and others won’t.
The rhythmic heart of DrumDing is a 6-track sequencer with space for up to 64 projects. Each project stores 16 samples and all six tracks of the sequencer.
The latter can go up to 64 steps and offer modern features, including probability, micro-timing, polyrhythmic support, parameter locks, independent sequence length, forward and backward directions, and more.
You can refine your sounds with internal digital effects, including pitch shifter, two delays, bit crusher, reverb, and more. These can be automated in the sequence.
First Impression
A very refreshingly different concept for a drum machine. Certainly one of my highlights of Superbooth 2025.
Vermona DrumDing will be available at the end of the year. Price is TBA.
More information here: Vermona
Oh my, this is an inspired idea.
This thing won’t be cheap for sure, but just wow.
Might prove to be worth the money.
Curious what the IO looks like…
If this happens to have a way to get the finished tracks off in clean loops, like SD card or USB, that would be just amazing.
Please tell me, where is the advantage of this concept compared to a classic Drum Machine?
Workflow.
Lol. I tell you the only advantage, it is Vermona’s advantage to implement only one voice, call it innovative and put a big, fat price tag on their product, like they always do. My 10 years old real Drum Machine from a Swedish developer is laughing about this “innovation”.
Vermona products aren’t expensive, they’re well worth what you get.
I have a 10 year old Elektron Rytm and 20 year old Vermona DRM1 and after using this one a bit during the show I can clearly see its advantages.
You have no idea what it’s costs or what’s inside, you’re just ranting about something you don’t understand
I’m not against Vermona, the PERfourMER MkII is a very cool synth. But since you own an Elektron Analog Rytm, you know all the things, that you will never be able to do with this DrumDing. The Synth Anatomy video also says, DrumDing will not be cheap. Sorry, I only see downsides compared to a real Drum Machine and if I want to work with Samples, I go to NI Maschine and have 1 billion perfectly trimmed Samples.
I wouldn’t argue with taste, but comparing features is a meaningless game people play on the internet often driven by consumerism, issues with decision making, economic status, or just plain dissatisfaction from whatever. There’s no actual practicality in it when you sit down with something and actually create music.
I played it at the show and heard many new and inspiring things I never got from my beloved Rytm And it felt completely different, it took me down entirely new paths.
So go ahead and compare instruments, features, and prices all you want. Call them “real” or “overpriced” without really knowing anything meaningful about them. It’s all meaningless when it comes to actually making music. A guitar doesn’t cover violin territory, and I’d argue these two examples are less different than these two drum machines. People see names like “drum machine” or “synthesizer” and think that makes them comparable. But if they sound different, act completely differently, and have a totally different workflow, then the name is really the only thing they have in common.
You describe the total opposite of my situation. I have very limited money and very limited space. Everything here must be spot-on and for me personally, Analog Rytm and Maschine is a really hard to beat drum combination. What else do I need?
I think it’s quite genius tbh!
It is!