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We saw this powerful little beat making box at Superbooth and now you can have one of your own. The UNO Drum is cute, portable, easy going and available right now. UNO Drum IK Multimedia have aced it with this one. Most of the attention around drum machines focuses on the will-it-ever-arrive RD-808 and the […]
If you are stuck in a rut with making beats, XLN Audio might have readied something to bring the spark back. The creators of Addictive Drums announced XO, a beatmaker and sample explorer which fuses together sounds from sampling services like Splice, Beatport, and Loopmasters in a visually appealing and creatively chaotic visual environment. It […]
Every once in a while, a cool-looking drum machine/rompler with a big ol’ sample library shows up in aid of producers struggling to nail their beats. TRAX by Producer Spot is 2019’s first of this kind, I think. And, tell you what, it’s a sweet-looking plug-in. Styled like a hardware drum machine, it comes complete […]
Uli Behringer has been hanging out on the Gearslutz forum again, this time updating us on the forthcoming RD-909 Rhythm Designer. Disappointingly it’s still “several more months away” but thrillingly they are sticking with the $299 price point. RD-909 We saw this interpretation of the classic Roland TR-909 drum machine at Knobcon in September. There […]
Small but mighty, that’s always the idea of something called Atom. The ATOM production and performance pad controller from PreSonus appears to fit the bill. It’s certainly a very colourful little thing. ATOM Slightly unexpected I would say. PreSonus have their FaderPort control surfaces but nothing to indicate they were getting into the performance pad […]
The Mikro is the last in the Maschine series to receive an update. Gone are the white buttons and bezels and instead it’s all sleek and black and understated – except for the circus of 16 colourful pads on the right. Maschine Mikro MK3 And that’s not all. The screen has been reduced to something […]
A drum machine in a ball, a bouncing rubber ball, that bangs out beats with every ricochet – this is Oddball. Released on Kickstarter today they are hoping to capture the imaginations of the streetwise mobile beat making crowd, and maybe other musicians looking for a new take on rhythm generation and MIDI control. Oddball It’s […]
We caught a whiff of this bonkers box back in November but now it’s ready to unleash its craziness upon the world of modular percussion and MIDI synthesis. Crazy8 Beats is available now for a tempting €303. Crazy8 Beats It draws a lot of similarities to their regularly bonkers “Crazy8” sequencer but this time the […]