For a month, Roland has been teasing its mysterious “Aira” products with a series of videos that invoke the TR-808 and TR-909 Rhythm Composers, classic beat machines that are amongst the best-sounding ...

About 10 years ago, a disgruntled pianist in Los Angeles named John Wood began a popular bumper sticker campaign with the slogan, "Drum Machines Have No Soul." Not everyone was convinced, including ...

With a few notable exceptions, the fine art of tabletop tapping has been a purely non-digital experience for most people. Now, iDevice users can turn their rhythmic creations into real-time drum ...

Explore the iconic "four-on-the-floor" beat and its impact on genres like disco, house, and pop. From disco's golden era to its resurgence in modern pop, Jojo and Linda trace the four-on-the-floor ...

DRUMS WEEK 2025: As technology marches on, drum processing is another ever-evolving field. Once, engineers may have made their way with a stereo pair of microphones above the drum kit, as well as a ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Always expanding and ever improving, the recently resurrected DrumCraft brand has just announced ...

Bill Detamore was a budding musician barely out of his teens when he first dismantled a drum to see how it worked. Soon, he was teaching himself to cut and sand the hoops, stretch the heads, attach ...

We are getting a major update to Apple’s free iOS music production suite today. GarageBand was already considered to be one of, if not the best, DAW’s available to mobile music makers, and now it’s ...

The sound of beating drums echoed through the streets of downtown Tyler on Thursday morning; except this wasn’t any ordinary drum line – this drum line was made of students from Caldwell Arts Academy, ...