You may not know the 808 drum machine, but you have definitely heard it: the original Roland TR-808 was the first programmable drum machine and has been a mainstay of electronic music ever since.

Anyone who has listened to any music from the 80s has heard the percussive effects of the infamous TR-808 drum machine. To the modern ear, it sounds like an antique. Being the most popular drum ...

So why on earth would we advocate using a hardware drum machine? As is the case with hardware synths, there’s something very ...

Full Bucket Music is seemingly on a mission to deliver more free plugin emulations of classic synths and drum machines than we know what to do with. Released in 1981, the multitimbral Trilogy came ...

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 ...