What is the best new drum machine or sampler of 2020?
Pick a beat-maker from our shortlist
Access to sampling and drum machine tech, particularly in software form, has never been more varied and affordable, yet have you fallen for a hardware drum machine or sampler in the last 12 months?
When we’re judging the best new music tech gear of 2020, then (which we are, by the way) drum machines and samplers need to come into the equation. Vote for your favourite new product below.
Voting closes at midnight on 5 December.
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