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Two brand new budget multi-effect units from Zoom, the new G1 Four and G1X Four, cram in a bunch of effects, amp simulations, a tuner and drum machine for a very nice price.
Roland pulls their finger out and registers the design and layout of the iconic TR-808 and TB-303 as trademarks in Germany. How will this affect Behringer and other clone manufacturers?
Styled like a hardware drum machine, TRAX comes complete with 50 drum kits spanning modern beat-driven genres like hip-hop, trap, EDM and the like.
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Although it's yet to get its official release check out our no-talking demonstration of the Behringer RD-808 Rhythm Composer.
Korg Gadget 2 brings in 6 new gadgets and a redesigned front end of their music production software for iOS and MacOS. Meanwhile, on Windows we get to play with the gadgets as plugins.
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Joyo carries on its determined assault on the cheaper end of the pedal market with the O.M.B., a looper pedal for combining overdubs with drum patterns to create your own sounds and song ideas.
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PulseCode is all about those drum sounds that we didn't know we still needed. But if you kick off the demo video you'll soon remember why you love them so much.
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It was all a bit gritty and lo-fi ...
Uli Behringer takes to the internet to tell us that the RD-909 is not coming as soon as we'd like but if we're patient then we're going to love the price.
The Hotone MP-100 Ampero is packed with features: 120 amps and cabs, 240 effects, an expression pedal, a 120s looper and more. But will it fulfil the promise of behaving like a real amp?
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Not as much going on this 808 Day as we'd hoped but we do get a good sound demo of the forthcoming RD-808 with some hints at pricing and release date. Will we see an RD-909 on 909 Day?
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Other than a pair of trainers Roland is not sparking much anticipation for 808 Day on the 8th August. Behringer meanwhile is hinting that they are going to make it all about their RD-808 analogue drum machine.
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Got a lot of USB MIDI gear knocking around? Well the RK-005 can host it and bring it all together into a single MIDI stream, clock to analog and then connect to a DAW or not. A super versatile MIDI interface.
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Behringer gives us a sneak peak at their TR-808 Rhythm Composer clone called the RD-808. It's still being developed but is only a few months from production but is looking pretty fabulous.
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Alarmingly shaped and worryingly named Oi, Kant! is an angry, mean and bonkers drum-ish machine -whose esthetics presumably arise from a faculty of disinterested judgment.
Monade has released a sample-based plug-in called Pure707. They say it's based upon the 1985 Roland TR-707 Rhythm Composer and we have no reason to doubt them. But there's also more to it than that.
Teenage Engineering are likely to reveal another Pocket Operator or two at NAMM and it's probably going to be called the K.O. or Speech or something - we have evidence to support this!
