Features Pro Audio The Oberheim DMX drum machine: the heartbeat of hip hop by Dan Shaw In many ways, the sonic style of the ’80s was characterised by the embrace of new technology, without necessarily complying with the notion of realism. Digital technology approached maturity, studios…
Features Pro Audio The myths, secrets and stories about why the Roland TR-808 sounds the way it does by Enmore Audio We went sifting through the dark corners of the web to extract the myths, secrets and stories about why the holy Roland TR-808 sounds the way it does. Yes, welcome…
News Pro Audio Autechre quietly releases Sysex files from their Elektron synths by Luka Osborne English electronic music duo Autechre have for decades dazzled with their complex beats and rhythms that are just about unreplicable… until, now. Thanks to the wonders of the Sysex protocol,…
News RMJ: A 2018 introspective and how a $100 drum machine reignited my love of music by Happy With the release of his most recent single Anybody (Quite Like You), South Australian singer-songwriter Ryan Martin John rebranded himself as RMJ. The result was a far more immersive sound…
Features Pro Audio In praise of the AKAI MPC: a hip-hop time machine by Joanna Panagopoulos The AKAI MPC simultaneously digitised beat-making, progressed the pastiche musical form, and freed hip hop from the confines of earlier technology. In its youth, hip hop was fundamentally street music,…
News Pro Audio Thomas Bangalter’s original Roland TR-909 is on sale featuring Daft Punk’s ‘Homework’-era presets by Happy Thousands of dollars? Millions? It’s anyone’s guess as to how much this original Roland TR-909 will go for, given that it was the very machine operated by Thomas Bangalter of…
News Pro Audio Want a legit Roland TR-808 emulator for free? Dutch techno master Legowelt has got you covered by Happy Those well-versed in scouring the web for free plugins might yawn at the prospect of yet another drum machine emulation, but the Smackos 808 simulator, the latest free plugin offer…
News Don’t have any spare cash to splash out on a new drum kit? Check out the new HTML-909 online drum machine by Emily Mathison In the age of the technology, of course there’s going to be some pretty killer revelations online. One of the newest to come out of the tech world is the…
