Drum machines provide the creative foundation for songwriting in so many musical Genres. We check out some of the best budget drum machines.
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Let the spirits guide your sequence with the cosmic Melody Oracle musical pattern divinator. Part board game, part exploratory sonic universe
Web-based instruments like tahti.studio are becoming more and more developed in their features, and now access to a sample library.
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The Vanguard Audio Labs V13 Gen2 tube condenser microphone improves its predecessor in various places while embodying its decisive qualities.
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Consequencer is a gate and stepped CV sequencer inspired by Mutable Instruments Grids and the Music Thing Turing Machine for elegant patterns of randomness.
The super-exciting Perkons HD-01 drum machine that was the star of Superbooth has run into trouble with finding micro-controllers. But Erica Synths has a plan!
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The Circuit Rhythm is finally here and will turn samples into stellar tracks with built-in recording, performance effects and on-the-go capabilities.
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16 steps and 64 patterns of MIDI sequencing packed into a box half the size of your phone the mini.SEQ from B&C Audio is a little box of grooves.
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Brazillian synth maker Arthur Joly says that he has finally forged the Recodrum that he's always dreamed of. The finest hand-built, analog drum machine you'll ever find.
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Google Arts & Culture presents AR Synth a collection of 5 classic music machines scanned into an AR environment for you to play with in your browser.
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Cool, compact and clever: VERSELAB MV-1's new approach to music production has it all: patterns, sounds, effects and vocal recording. A new standard?
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You Mix, Route, Record/Mutate and Pan - that's what CVilization is all about through its 4 colour-coded modes of CV manipulation and it hopes to change your whole approach to modular.
RATCHETEER is able to generate MIDI patterns all by itself, providing new MIDI loops for your projects in control by MIDI keyboards and automation. Neat!
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In a departure from their previous rustic boxes the Ellitone E(64) is a proper product with a wide spectrum of sonic possibility and experimental interaction.
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In a device about the size of a GameBoy XOR Electronics is introducing the NerdSEQ Portable featuring 8 tracks of tracker style sequencing, sampling, modulation, effects and synthesis. Now with video!
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Whether you love or hate the authentically annoying TD-3 sequencer there's now an online TD-3 Pattern Tool that will let you create and edit patterns directly on your little box of acid.
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Tangible Instruments says preorders are open on the adorable little Arpeggio box. It's cute, portable, packed full of melody and could keep you making tunes for hours.
Over the weekend Uli Behringer was back engaging with the community updating us on the status of the long-awaited RD-9 and asking exactly how authentic we wanted a Roland CR78 clone.
Users on a UK guitar forum find images of Fender Custom Shop Stratocasters with very similar relic patterns. Do these point to automated processes at Fender Custom Shop? And if they do, so what?
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AVP Synth's ADS-7 MK2 7-channel analog drum machine gets a much-improved sequencer and pattern management system along with a few tweaks to what was already a legendary drum synthesizer.
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Usta introduces a delightful oval ring of 16 lights and sequencing encoders that offers 4 independent dual layer tracks of CV/Gate with per step step-length and CV controlled variation
Hot new Black Sequencer from Erica Synths that has 16 knobs for 64 steps over 4 channels of CV, Gate and Modulation with per-step automation, MIDI in/out and performance features.
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UNO Drum is a 12-track drum machine featuring 6 analogue sounds and many more PCM ones in a compact form that makes it easy to bash out rhythms and create patterns. A percussive partner to UNO, then.
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Toraiz SQUID is an MPC style hardware sequencer with dual MIDI, dual CV/Gate and USB outputs that'll run 16 tracks of performance-based sequencing into all your gear.