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Austin startup Rhythmo has announced a crowdfunding campaign for the Beatbox drum machine, a battery-powered cardboard MIDI drum machine that can be assembled in under an hour. The Beatbox is fully self-assembled and requires no soldering as its components are either “quick-connected” or screwed on. The front panel features arcade-style plastic buttons, knobs, a joystick-style […]
BeatBox is a DIY drum machine created by Rhythmo, an Austin-based startup founded by developer Ethan Jin. He first drew up the idea for this inexpensive cardboard unit in 2017, and is planning to launch the product on Kickstarter next month. What’s unique about BeatBox is its DIY format. While its specs have not been […]
Price £109 Contact UJAM | Plugin Boutique The original UJAM Virtual Drummer was released a couple of years back, designed to be a straightforward way to create realistic drumming styles played by virtual drummers in your DAW. You get patterns, fills, different kits and individual hits and a certain amount of control over your sounds. This […]
AudioSpillage MiniSpillage A returning drum favourite and must inclusion is MiniSpillage, a synth/drum plug-in. It’s still Mac only, we’re afraid, but an essential download for that platform. It’s a cut-down version of AudioSpillage’s DrumSpillage with three drum pads for kick, hat and hollow drum. It comes with several kits and synth features – LFO, filter, […]
Drum machines have always occupied their own place in the history of sound synthesis and music-making, with their feet in both the synthesis and sequencing camps. They are often seen as a threat to ‘real’ musicians as a creative tool for musicians to exploit. It may therefore come as a surprise to learn that a […]
Price £50/$47 Contact Zero-G Zero-G has recently had huge success with its ever-expanding Ethera series, alongside its exceptionally clever Herz-OG fully-fledged synthesizer, all working within the Kontakt format. Now the company turns its attentions to beats, with a sample-trigger package that lends itself beautifully to creative drum deployment. Beat this! Beat Master […]
Price £50/$47 Contact Zero-G Zero-G has recently had huge success with its ever-expanding Ethera series, alongside its exceptionally clever Herz-OG fully-fledged synthesizer, all working within the Kontakt format. Now the company turns its attentions to beats, with a sample-trigger package that lends itself beautifully to creative drum deployment. Beat this! Beat Master […]
Price £255 (street)/$249 Contact IK Multimedia At the risk of sounding like a grandparent staring wistfully at an urban development and bemoaning, ‘I remember when all of this was fields’, I remember when IK Multimedia just did software. Ah, those heady days, when companies were trying to get a computer to do every music-making task […]
Price £19.99/$25 Contact Olympia Noise Co Patterning 2 from Olympia Noise Co offers a fresh and exciting way to program drums. It’s no secret that the modern producer has a fair few options to create and build beats, whether it’s the traditional route of entering MIDI data direct into your sequencer or […]
The AE Modular system from Tangible Waves aims to provide the modular synthesis experience for everyone regardless of their budget. With the basics of synthesis covered they have turned their attention to some well needed percussion sounds. AE Modular Drums AE Modular is really starting to come into its own. I wasn’t so sure when […]