For a month, Roland has been teasing its mysterious “Aira” products with a series of videos that invoke the TR-808 and TR-909 Rhythm Composers, classic beat machines that are amongst the best-sounding ...

Combining real analog circuits with digital synthesis and sampling makes the TR-1000 powerful but overwhelming.

About 10 years ago, a disgruntled pianist in Los Angeles named John Wood began a popular bumper sticker campaign with the slogan, "Drum Machines Have No Soul." Not everyone was convinced, including ...

This has just been confirmed by Ryan Tedder, who wrote and produced Greedy alongside Jasper Harris and McRae herself. The ...

With a few notable exceptions, the fine art of tabletop tapping has been a purely non-digital experience for most people. Now, iDevice users can turn their rhythmic creations into real-time drum ...

That's because the percussionist isn't a human, but a bird: the palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus) of Australia and New Guinea. The cockatoo is the only nonhuman animal on record to rhythmically ...

The smiles began with the first drum beat. The giggles showed up about five minutes later. Within the first 15 minutes, someone joked, "All we need are margaritas." Welcome to the Music 4 Life Drum ...

Explore the iconic "four-on-the-floor" beat and its impact on genres like disco, house, and pop. From disco's golden era to its resurgence in modern pop, Jojo and Linda trace the four-on-the-floor ...

We are getting a major update to Apple’s free iOS music production suite today. GarageBand was already considered to be one of, if not the best, DAW’s available to mobile music makers, and now it’s ...