Latest about Drum Machines
“A retro-contemporary beats machine of the highest detail and calibre”: Cherry Audio CR-78 review
The drum machine with one foot in the past makes a welcome return to the future. We show the CR-78 a glimpse of 2024
"Making electronic music technology more accessible": Erica Synths and Richie Hawtin's Bullfrog Drums is an educational drum machine inspired by the Roland TR-909
This seven-voice sample-based drum machine is designed to be paired with the other instruments in Erica Synth's educational "ecosystem", Bullfrog and Bullfrog XL
“Sometimes all the track needs is one synth”: Can Behringer's Syncussion SY-1 do it all?
A Eurorack-friendly version of the 1979 analogue original
"Kraftwerk were using a Bee Gees-branded toy drum machine" – and a pretty terrible one at that
And it's certainly not the only piece of weird gear the iconic German band have used…
“Make your music sound more like you”: Forever 89, the new company from Teenage Engineering and Ableton alumni, has released Visco, a flexible sample-modelling drum machine
Sounds can grabbed, pushed and pulled using “the blob”
NAMM 2024: "The perfect practice partner"? Korg's cute new KR-11 drum machine's mission is to make beats for players, with minimum fuss
Battery-powered beat machine looks a lot of fun
Polyend Play+ review
Polyend’s Play was a thing of wonder but it missed one thing: synthesis. Now the Play+ comes along, with synths and a physical upgrade offer for users of the original
1010music Nanobox Razzmatazz review
The Nanobox range gains a drum machine, but is it too small for making beats? We reach for our reading glasses
"It sounds like a drum machine instead of a machine playing drums - a sore disappointment": What critics said about the iconic Roland TR-909 drum machine on its release (and how they actually helped define dance music today)
Best of 2023: If they hadn't panned the 909, you might now be dancing to a very different beat…
