Watch a Mechanical Drum Machine That Uses Wheels and Magnets [Video]
Drum Machine – XOXX Composer from Axel Bluhme on Vimeo. Can you design a drum machine that does more than simply hide its workings inside an invisible box? XOXX Composer does just that. A project by...
View ArticleMetasonix Have Made an Immoral Drum Machine from Vacuum Tubes
Drum machines. They’re predictable. So much so that the biggest controversy about Roland’s high-profile entry into the market with AIRA was whether they should remake the 808/909 or remake the 808/909...
View ArticleAdd Classic 80s Yamaha Drum Machine Sounds to Your Set, Free
Ready for some poppy, retro Cocteau Twins feeling in your Mac or Windows plug-in collection? The aptly-named “Vintage Drum Elements” does the job for free. The sound source for the plug-in drum...
View ArticleGrab Some Free Analog Drum Samples, Featuring MFB-522
60 24-bit WAV drum samples with presets are yours for the asking, free. And the source is worth mentioning on its own. If you want a hardware drum machine that’s compact, unique, and affordable, your...
View ArticleLando’s New EP Is Giving Drum Machines Their Soul Back
Writing about music feels stupid sometimes, even to me. It’s a cop-out to say that, but it’s true. So I hope you first hit play; the magic of music journalism today is that you can actually hear the...
View ArticleJeff Mills Strips Bare Electronic Technique, Wants to Liberate DJs
Exhibitionist2TrailerFR from AxisRecords on Vimeo. For all the multi-camera Boiler Room rigs and debates over how vinyl records make music more visible than on a laptop, there’s an elephant in the...
View ArticleCelebrate 808 day by building a beat live with Egyptian Lover
Happy 8th of August, everybody – that means it’s 808 day, of course. So, to celebrate, let’s flash back to a 2012 video of Egyptian Lover assembling a beat in his hotel room. The LA rapper/producer...
View ArticleThis is now the iOS drum machine you want to jam with: Elastic Drums 1.6
Remember when apps were novel toys for experimentation? Now, an app could give your drum machine a run for its money. It’s the third wave of iOS apps. We’re now onto a moment where, cresting the wave...
View ArticleLearn electronics with the vintage Side Man drum machine
ENG_SIDEMAN_PREVIEW from Darsha Hewitt on Vimeo. Darsha’s sound electronics class is in session – and it’s a little different to what you’d normally expect. Rather than a bunch of animations of...
View ArticleHands-on with Novation Circuit, drum machine synth sequencer hardware all-in-one
Novation has been doing things with grids and knobs for some time, but those have come in the form of gadgets you plug into a computer and use with software like Ableton Live. Circuit is different:...
View ArticleRuismaker is an iOS drum synth that feels like hardware, works like a plug-in
Software drum machines aren’t kingmakers the way hardware is. So Bram Bos of Eindhoven is not a household name the way, say, certain hardware makers are. But back in the 90s, Bram’s HammerHead Rhythm...
View ArticleWatch this futuristic Roland TR-808 ad to celebrate 808 day
Who would have thought in 1980 that the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer would change drum machines and dance music forever? If you went out dancing this weekend, you probably heard its distinctive...
View ArticleArturia’s DrumBrute is a $499 hands-on analog drum machine
Boom! No, that’s not the sound of a kick drum – it’s the sound of the analog drum machine getting friendlier and cheaper the same way analog monosynths have. Arturia’s DrumBrute is US$499 (449€), and...
View ArticleGet a bunch of drum and wavetable sounds for Novation Circuit
What does that tasty ice, cold vanilla ice cream need? Chocolate sauce and peanuts. What does the Novation Circuit need? This sample pack. No, seriously. Cuckoo, that brilliant YouTube personality, has...
View ArticleSomeone custom-skinned a Roland MC-505 to look like an AIRA
Now having let the genie out of the bottle, there’s no saying where Roland will turn next with reboots and reissues. But some people are evidently not content to wait. So, via Twitter via Facebook, we...
View ArticleLeaks hint at new standalone Akai MPCs coming this year
Now that software increasingly comes with hardware, why not have it also run standalone? That has seemed inevitable for some time. Yet, for years, MPC fans have been without a standalone hardware...
View ArticleGrab 150 vintage and rare drum machines for free
You know the person – collecting weird old music gear, from highly valuable to the near-worthless used prices, as an obsessive hoarder. You open their closet and immediately want to grab a mic and...
View ArticleAkai’s standalone MPCs revealed – and they could replace your laptop
Welcome to the post-PC drum machine age. After years of leaving fans of standalone MPCs in the cold, Akai have unveiled machines that promise the flexibility of computer software – minus the computer....
View ArticleElektron’s Digitakt is a compact drum machine, sequencer, sampler
Elektron has been making some beautiful analog stuff with, well, “analog” in the name. But it seems the time has come to fill a glaring opening in the market – one left not just by Elektron, but by the...
View ArticleMaschine now makes it easy to work with external gear, spice up patterns
There are those things in music making that are just pure joy. There’s finding a particularly nice groove or pattern, or getting that really juicy synth or effect parameter to morph just so. And...
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