If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. A drum machine emulates the sounds made by any and all ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you buy through our links, we may earn an affiliate commission. While software-based plugins and instruments continue to offer incredible flexibility and convenience, there's something undeniably ...

Hexdrums is an impressive percussion machine with raw analogue weight and manual control. Although not without some quirks, its hands-on X0X sequencer and voice routing make it a powerful, fun tool ...

For the rest of us, though, it looks like a monument to 2000s-era PTSD. Yes, I can absolutely hear that the two beats are out ...

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, ...

is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. But, in typical Roland fashion, the company didn’t just re-create some iconic ...

Alongside its prompt-based pattern generation, audio files can be dropped into DrumBot AI – a reference track, a demo or a ...

One of our favorite musical hackers, [Look Mum No Computer] is getting dangerously close to building a computer. His quest was to create a unique drum machine, inspired by a Soviet auto-dialer that ...