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Patrick from Behringer put together a cool little video recreating the music from Michael Jackson’s Thriller using only Behringer gear. While talking about the drums he drops in a huge hint that Behringer could well be working on a clone of the LinnDrum drum machine that was famously used on the track. You’ll find the […]
Synth YouTuber and musician Oscillatorsink has released an online editor for the Korg Volca Drum digital percussion machine. It reveals all the parameters of this little box and is completely free. Synthmata It’s a slightly non-descript name for something so specific but what we have here is the guts of the Korg Volca Drum laid […]
Quanalog Instruments’ first entry into the Eurorack market is the remarkably named Boubou. It’s filter based, analogue and split into 5 voices to cover all the basics any drum synth would need. Boubou It’s a big chunky module, as wide as it is tall and covered with an initially bewildering array of knobs. The black […]
The IK tease machine has started up again and this time they claim to be tackling the “oldest instruments in human history”. Now that’s unlikely to be a caveman analogue synthesizer or ancient guitar it’s got be all about banging rocks together. The video starts with piano (no, it’s not that) and then a heartbeat. […]
Final production on the Isla Instruments SP 2400 is still some way off as they are not estimating delivery until the end of the year. But they’ve decided to open up preorders for people who want to get their money down on this exciting evolution of “the greatest drum machine the world ever saw”. SP […]
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 […]
This is the first new synthesizer from Future Audio Workshop in a long time. It’s called SubLab and is designed to give you “the hardest hitting sub-bass every time”. SubLab This is not a virtual analogue synth for making bass noises. SubLab pulls together a number of digital and analogue processes to craft a bass […]
A prototype of the Rabid Elephant Portal Kick kick drum designer was looking stunning with its mad blue knobs. Portal Kick The idea was to capture some of the nostalgia of 808 and 909 kick drum sounds while building a sound from scratch. They started with a sine core and then put a click source […]
We’ve seen snippets and clips of The Division Department’s forthcoming o1/IV drum machine but now they’ve released the full details so that we can better talk about it. 01/IV So, is it “zero-one-eye-vee” or “oh-one-four”? Who knows, but as this is a 4-channel analogue drum synthesizer then I’m going to go with the latter. The […]
Aha, I was sure the teased new product from IK Multimedia was going to be a more advanced form of synthesizer – a mother to the UNO if you will. But no, they have transformed the UNO into a drum machine and that actually makes a lot more sense. UNO Drum it is then. UNO […]