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 ...

A “simple” beat is often carefully created. Producer No I.D. once said, “A simple beat is just a complex one with the right ...