This is incredibly useful for programming beats that change over time ... As well as letting us adjust the overall length of our patterns, many modern drum machines allow us to adjust the specific ...

The drum machines themselves can't help it ... For your listening pleasure, I've uploaded a Gneutronic groove, a simple demonstration of the program's pattern and song editors at work. As an ALSA MIDI ...

Contemporary drum machines are considerably more advanced than their ‘80s predecessors in many ways, but nowhere more so than ...

What’s more, there’s an inherent physicality to rhythmic creativity, and a good drum machine lets us lean into that, whether that’s through bashing out patterns using performance pads or sketching ...

it’s remarkably easy to program: Prior to the LM-1 and the 808, many drum machines came with preset rhythms that weren’t modifiable outside of tempo. On the 808 you can make your own patterns ...

creating catchy percussion patterns. Unlike most drum machines at the time, the 808 gave musicians remarkable freedom: You weren’t limited to pre-programmed rhythms or orchestrations ...