Akai has teamed up with long-time rival Native Instruments. NI sound packs will soon be available on Akai standalone MPC devices.

Using the latest Raspberry Pi Pico 2, he's created a custom drum machine synth ... It was written in C and is also open source so you can copy it directly or use it for inspiration to program ...

A landmark product in the history of music technology, LinnDrum was the successor to the Linn LM-1, itself the first drum machine to use samples of real drums and the first to qua ...

Sam Scott returns to mark the homework of 2024 marketing predictions in his column, The Promotion Fix. It’s an annual ...

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As a trailblazer who worked tirelessly to diversify the tech industry, he earned the nickname “Godfather of Silicon Valley” — an honorific he adopted for his 2022 self-published memoir, Unstoppable: ...

With dreams of being the next Poison or Whitesnake, two young shred virtuosos took their songwriting to the next level for their 1988 Shrapnel Records classic ...

Now, as the debate comes to a head in Washington, it seems pertinent to express the views of those who feel that conscription in any guise is a war measure out of keeping with the peacetime policy of ...

“Fortunately, the numbers they were entering were so wild that the machine just shut down ... mounted stone fork is top of the agenda – an 8ft model that will be a copy of one of James’s previous ...

NAMM 2025: Billed as “the first fully programmable drum machine in guitar pedal form,” Polyend’s Step is the beatmaking box that you can control with your feet.

We’re sticking to instruments too – hardware synths, samplers and drum machines. Check out our regularly updated buyer’s guides at the links below for the best interface, monitors, mics and headphones ...