Watch as a telephone is transformed into a DIY analog drum machine

Push-button telephone. Analog drum machine. Arduino Nano. DIY amplifier. Shashwath Sundar, aka simple_but_nerdy, makes the telephone-drum machine fusion seem like it was meant to be.

Baby Audio’s Tekno drum machine gets a sequencer and iOS AUv3 version

Tekno from Baby Audio was easily one of my favorite plug-ins of last year — it’s a rich, “bend”-able, brutal box with the feeling of hardware drum synthesis. And now it gets a step sequencer, plus a ton of tweaks you might have missed in the first release. And one more thing: iOS users, there’s a mobile version with AUv3 version.

Peter Kirn - January 8, 2026

Motherly, sequencer percussion synth, is pure rhythmic happiness

Moog’s DFAM has become almost a genre of instrument — like the Minimoog architecture or original Moog modular. Look no further than this delight from Rainbow Circuit. On the surface, it looks like another model of the percussion synth (Mom!). But it sounds like nothing else, and if you’re looking for more synthesized, sequenced percussion to infuse a smile into your day, Motherly is like uncut dopamine.

Peter Kirn - November 21, 2025

Moon from Landscape, Mystic Circuits: a bonkers 4-channel drum machine

Peter Kirn - November 3, 2025

Envion: a free, open, algorithmic drum composition environment in Pd

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2025

Akai MPC Live III: expressive pads come to the MPC grid; $1699 with new core

Peter Kirn - October 4, 2025

What to know about the Roland TR-1000, from voices to slicing to samples

Peter Kirn - October 1, 2025

A drum machine as a stick figure navigating a colored, pixellated grid with three rows.

10,000 Drum Machines is full of wild, weird, free Web music devices

Peter Kirn - September 22, 2025

Elektron’s Tonverk is a 16-track polyphonic multisampler powerhouse

Peter Kirn - September 10, 2025

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