MUSICRADAR AWARDS 2022: 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 ...
The world's largest music gear expo is set to open its doors next week, and Yamaha has popped up early with a groove machine called the Seqtrak that could have jumped straight out of Teenage ...
As part of a series about music technology called “Noise Makers,” we’re talking to musicians about their favorite noise-making device. For our last installment Marketplace Tech host Ben Johnson ...
Electronic musicians have a myriad of options to build beats, but using a drum machine is one of the most satisfying and inspirational. While you can do your sampling in software, getting hands-on ...
Artist, content creator and head of Sade Microphones Iftah Gabbai has compiled a vast dataset of synths, samplers and drum machines, and his analysis of that data reveals some fascinating insights ...
I’m tired of uninspired flash drive designs. So it’s shaped like a donut huh? Meh. It’s filled with beer eh? Not interested. These mini MPC 2000XL and SP1200 ...
That product is of course the Octatrack, released in 2010, an eight voice "dynamic performance sampler '' that was arguably Elektron's most complex machine yet. Troberg described the Octatrack as an ...
In the summer of 1987, E-mu Systems released the SP-1200, a drum machine and sampler designed for dance-music producers. An update of a previous model known as the SP-12, the souped-up edition allowed ...