There's not much early-80s tech that still influences modern creativity, but the dominance of electronic drum sounds stems ...

I'd really like to start messing around with and learning how drum machines work. I can't afford a set of drums, so software seems like my only viable option. I had considered purchasing a real ...

With standard drum machine software you’re stuck with a library of pre-recorded samples, or samples you capture yourself. But with Lorenzo’s creation, those samples can instantly be anything ...

PianistEnvy developer Melonsoft has released BubbleDrum 1.0, a drum machine application for Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 that has been developed for kids, hobbyists and musicians alike. The BubbleDrum ...

Called the XOXX Composer, the machine transforms digital processes like looping, sequencing and sampling into a more tangible act.

Building on this first successful deployment, the 16-bit Wendel-II was utilised on Donald Fagen's Nightfly album and, in 1984 ...

I need some kind of drum machine. Anything where I can program a sequence of drum sounds and loop it. Any ideas? Free would be nice.

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. There is no shortage of drum machine software available for download to your Windows or Mac machine, but ...

The Roland TR-808 and TR-909 are iconic drum machines that powered a ton of the music from the '80s and '90s. While both hardware units were recently revived as the TR-08 and TR-09, they haven't ...

The legendary Linn LM-1 drum machine came out in 1980 and only 525 were ever made. What makes this long discontinued drum machine so unique that top producers and engineers are still using it on so ...

After the first wave of electronic music software with the KORG line (iElectribe, iMS-20, iKaossilator etc.) as the most prominent example, new electronic music production environments got very rare.