Akai’s current MPC matures as gear hub, with new MPC Live II hardware and 2.8 software

Akai’s recent 2.8 software offers some powerful new features – and a revised MPC Live II could be a sweet spot in hardware, with expanded connectivity and built-in speakers. And finally, you get MIDI multi capability, like on the classic MPCs. Here’s the rundown. The demands for a digital drum machine/production workstation are now pretty […]

Elektron Analog updates let you sequence other gear, add musical complexity

Elektron just revised their Analog Four and Analog Rytm MKI/MKII OSes. Finally: MIDI out. Wait, that’s cool: per-track scale, powerful macros, and more.

Peter Kirn - October 21, 2019

Reverb are giving away their complete $841.58 drum machine sample collection, free

Maybe they’re feeling generous after getting bought by Etsy for $275 million. But whatever the reason, now you can have some 50 libraries of classic drum machine samples, for free, from Reverb.com.

Peter Kirn - August 27, 2019

The E-mu SP-1200 sampler is getting a reboot: SP 2400

Peter Kirn - June 17, 2019

It’s 606 day – remember when Roland made a drum machine like a 303?

Peter Kirn - June 6, 2019

Post-album techno: 9 years of live sequence data, from Shawn Rudiman

Peter Kirn - May 15, 2019

IK UNO Drum: portable, $249.99 analog-PCM drum machine

Peter Kirn - May 8, 2019

SOMA’s PULSAR-23 semi-modular drum machine sneak peak

Peter Kirn - May 1, 2019

Elektron’s Model:Samples just got more useful: change samples per step

Peter Kirn - April 3, 2019

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