If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. A drum machine emulates the sounds made by any and all ...

Let’s be honest, in 2024 the easiest and most flexible approach to beat-making is in-the-box. DAW tools such as Logic’s Drum Machine Designer, Ableton’s Drum Racks or the similar beat making tools in ...

The term ’drum machine’ can mean a multitude of things in 2023, encompassing everything from emulations of vintage beatboxes and new devices inspired by them, to full-on multichannel groove production ...

The day the iPad was unveiled, the whole Apple community screamed that the device would change the way we look at arts and be the center of any kind of creation process in mankind’s mobile future.

Here’s Pure Acid with a fetching gold makeover. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac Pure Acid is a bass synthesizer and drum machine app for the iPad, and it might just be the best drum machine app ever ...

Blown-out snares, glitchy hi-hats and percussion, almost any beat can be achieved with a drum machine, especially those with dedicated FM synthesis. Roger Linn’s Linn LM-1, released originally in 1980 ...

Even the most inexpensive drum machines still tend to be not-so-trivial purchases, but you may have an easier time rationalizing this one. Rhythmo has started a crowdfunding campaign for the Beatbox, ...

These e-drum pads pack a world of percussion sounds into a small unit drummers can play either on their own or as part of a larger hybrid drum kit. By Markkus Rovito Published Jan 5, 2024 4:00 PM EST ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Drum pads are purposely designed to make you work a ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Drumming is one of the more visceral forms of creative ...

The Roland TR-909 drum machine, like other pieces of now iconic Roland gear, was not embraced by the masses when it came out. It received mixed reviews, and like the TB-303 before it, Roland scrapped ...