A new company called Musical Beings has officially unveiled the Tembo, which might be the cutest drum machine ever made. Just ...

You move wooden tokens around a grid to build your beats.

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If you’re a musician looking to add drum beats or loops via a pedal, a Finnish company called Kovaluu has unveiled a cheap solution. Its app for iOS and Android, called Beats and Loops, transforms ...

Back in the late 1960s, creating music anywhere was made much easier with a now iconic toy-like pocket synth called the Stylophone. Now Dubreq is aiming to do the same for beat makers with a portable ...

Making beats with various drum machines and sequencers can be a fairly sterile affair. Typically, you hit some buttons on a rectangular box or click grid squares in a software interface, looping the ...

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 what ...

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Five rock songs that were made better by drum machines, with iconic entries by New Order, Phil Collins, Yes, Billy Idol, and ...

The sequencer on the 808, a row of 16 color-coded buttons, offered artists a way to store beats they programmed. Courtesy of Roland Even if you don't know the Roland TR-808 drum machine by name, ...

“Drum machines may be reliable and all that, but they can`t drink as much as me," Motorhead drummer Phil Taylor once said (supposedly). Actually, Taylor, who died in 2015 from liver failure, was a ...