It’s 8/8/08 - so Experimentalists Anonymist has pointed out that it’s 808 day - a day to celebrate one of the two most important drum machines in electronic music, the Roland TR-808 Computer Controlled Rhythm Composer.
The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer was one of the first programmable drum machines. Introduced by the Roland Corporation in late [...]

 

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Don’t buy an Akai MPC5000 until you read this: hip-hop producer Just Blaze’s rant on the MPC Akai calls “the most advanced MPC on the planet.”
“THIS THING IS COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE AND SHOULD NOT BE!” says Blaze. “Some of the bugs in this thing are ATROCIOUS.”
He goes on to detail a litany of bugs and limitations [...]

An introduction to the MIDIbox 808 project - a DIY Roland 808 clone & sequencer.
Looks like a great companion to the x0xb0x.

ModernBeats has introduced Vintage Machinez 1, the first of a huge collection of remastered classic drum samples for software samplers!
The Vintage Machinez Collection offers users a 21st century design of all old drum machine classics divided into 3 major categories for quick and convenient use. Categories include newly remastered Mono versions, plus unique Stereo and [...]