It's always good to see companies delivering updates and new features to devices long after they've launched. And Roland's TR-8S and TR-6S were already pretty capable to begin with. But with the ...

For many, drum machines are encapsulated by the big, booming sound of an 808 kick drum or the snappy whipcrack of a 909 snare. Resurrected by hip-hop and dance musicians, those classics reshaped our ...

A sputtering block of wood and metal, the CR-78 was the first drum machine to make the big time Music Tech Showcase 2021: Over the past four decades, the sound of the drum machine has put an indelible ...