This is now the iOS drum machine you want to jam with: Elastic Drums 1.6

Remember when apps were novel toys for experimentation? Now, an app could give your drum machine a run for its money. It’s the third wave of iOS apps. We’re now onto a moment where, cresting the wave of tools, a few are becoming simply invaluable to the right users. They can make an iPad feel […]

Control, Shortcuts for Ableton Starting at $99: A Look at the New AKAI APC Line

For any tool that has “live” in the name, physical control will always be important. And so even with a broad market for controllers targeting Ableton’s flagship software, now including the slick Push hardware from Ableton themselves, AKAI’s re-vamped APC line earned intense interest when it debuted at Musikmesse this month. Let’s make sense of […]

- March 23, 2014

Do It With Lasers: R&D Experiment Makes Drum Microphones, Triggers More Accurate

Sennheiser Element – Laser Drum Microphone System from Andy Greenwood on Vimeo. We cover a lot of experiments that make an interesting proof of concept, or that make performance, frankly, more difficult but in interesting ways. Here’s an idea that might just work. You know, like might actually make an existing technology better. The idea […]

- April 17, 2013

Nord Drum 2, Playable Drum Synth, Gets More Sound Options, Nord Pad Companion [Photos]

- April 8, 2013

AKAI MPK mini USB Controller Packs Keys, Pads, Knobs Into 13″, One Pound

- December 21, 2010

After-Holiday Music Technology Bargain Shopping Picks

amqc948 - December 27, 2006

Akai MPD24 MIDI Pad Controller, Photoblogged in the Wild

Peter Kirn - November 5, 2006

DIY MIDI Drum Triggers with Arduino; MIDI Over USB?

Peter Kirn - October 30, 2006

Zendrum Hand Percussion Hardware + BFD Jazz & Funk Samples in Video

Peter Kirn - October 2, 2006

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