The drum machine is a pivotal part of genres across the board in modern music, but it took a while to get right. This was the first one made.

You may not know the 808 drum machine, but you have definitely heard it: the original Roland TR-808 was the first programmable drum machine and has been a mainstay of electronic music ever since.

DAW tools such as Logic’s Drum Machine Designer, Ableton’s Drum Racks or the similar beat making tools in FL Studio, Reason ...

Here’s how it works. Artist, content creator and head of Sade Microphones Iftah Gabbai has compiled a vast dataset of synths, samplers and drum machines, and his analysis of that data reveals some ...

It’s not just a device for looping stored audio, though. There’s also a drum machine built in which can record and loop beats with varying sounds and pitches, as well as a sample slicer and a ...