Expanding on the popular SR-16 drum machine, Alesis has incorporated eight velocity sensitive pads and released the Performance Pad. The kit-mountable Performance Pad comes with 2 inputs for external ...

Earlier this year 1010music released the Lemondrop and Fireball, two surprisingly full-featured synths in unbelievably tiny packages. The company’s Nanobox lineup covers a lot of ground between those ...

The day the iPad was unveiled, the whole Apple community screamed that the device would change the way we look at arts and be the center of any kind of creation process in mankind’s mobile future.

Zoom has unveiled their latest digital multi-track recorder, the Zoom R24, which throws not only 24-track playback/8-track simultaneous recording into the mixture but sampler functionality, a USB ...

There’s this dude on ‘Gram who goes by the handle ipaddrummer, and his whole schtick is — you guessed it! — creating drum covers on his iPad. To date, he’s done tracks by bands like Metallica, Iron ...

Blown-out snares, glitchy hi-hats and percussion, almost any beat can be achieved with a drum machine, especially those with dedicated FM synthesis. Roger Linn’s Linn LM-1, released originally in 1980 ...

When technology takes the lead, music always follows, and while the simple provision of a reliable beat doesn’t sound like much, the invention and adoption of new drum machines has consistently ...