Demo of Mike L’s Nine Inch Nails-inspired Echoplex Drum Simulator, a Windows drum sequencer. Current features: Info so far: Any two .wav sound files can be used (even your own!) Beats Per Minute alterable from 1 to [Too fast for sane people] Volume control possible for each track separately Tone/Frequency control as well Variable loop… Read More Echoplex Drum Sequencer
This is a quick look at iZotope’s new iDrum (App Store link) drum machine app for the iPhone. In addition to running on the iPhone, iDrum is available as a standalone application, or as a plug-in for use within VST, Audio Unit, MAS, and RTAS host applications.
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… Read More Happy 808 Day!
Akai has announced that they are now shipping the MPC5000. Akai’s MPC5000 is the first MPC to permit eight-track streaming hard disk recording for real-time capture of individual tracks or even entire songs. A 20-voice, three-oscillator analog synthesizer with arpeggiator, a new sequencing engine with 960 PPQ resolution, pad and track muting and mixing, 64… Read More The Akai MPC 5000
via Chip Collection: You can now place advance orders for Dave Smith & Roger Linn’s LinnDrum II drum machine. There are two models: the all-digital “LinnDrum II”, available from Roger Linn Design and the “LinnDrum II Analog”, which adds four analog synth voices and 32 dual-function voicing knobs, available from Dave Smith Instruments. Pricing is… Read More Dave Smith & Roger Linn’s LinnDrum II Now On Sale
[display_podcast] BoxBeat is a prototype toy that turns the surface of your desk into a beat making instrument. It uses contact microphones to detect different sounds from the desk surface, and a simple software patch to trigger audio samples. “I often find myself tapping away on my desk, and this is a fun and simple… Read More BoxBeat Turns Your Desk Into An Instrument
2008 Summer NAMM Show: Roland announced the TDW-20 Expansion Board for the V-Drums TD-20 Percussion Sound Module. Description: This add-on lets drummers extend the power of their V-Drums with wider dynamics, new sounds, new ambience effects, enhanced V-Editing, and improved functionality. The TDW-20 Expansion Board can be user-installed easily, adding hundreds of new drum and… Read More Roland Unveils TDW-20 Expansion Board
Tony Amendolare at ElectroKraft has created a unique new music controller for the NES, the Sonic DrumAxe. Tony’s always coming up with unusual instruments (see our previous ElectroKraft coverage), and the Sonic DrumAxe is no exception. The Sonic DrumAxe is a controller that connects to the Nintendo NES video game system. Used with the Super… Read More Sonic DrumAxe Turns NES Into 8-Bit Percussion Instrument
BeatMachine – Amateur is a DIY project that uses a webcam and a computer to turn a sheet of paper and some bottle caps into a drum machine. This is totally MacGiver – but you gotta love it, too. Unfortunately, the creator’s site is in Polish. If you can read it, give us the run down… Read More BeatMachine: A Paper Drum Machine
Ready for some 80’s-tastic synth drum action? The YAMAHA ED10 Electronic Drum is a electronic drum pad with a built-in analog synthesizer engine. Features: 1OSC + 1Noise + 1 ‘Subsonic’ OSC + 1Filter + 1ENV synthesizer. Analog synth engine All the parameters are edited with knobs – pitch, sub-sonic pitch, filter, noise, decay, bend, click,… Read More The Yamaha ED10 Analog Synth Drum
