Bjooks has published several coffee-table books exploring musical instrument design, the history of Roland, the world of ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. A drum machine emulates the sounds made by any and all ...

The sequencer on the 808, a row of 16 color-coded buttons, offered artists a way to store beats they programmed. Courtesy of Roland Even if you don't know the Roland TR-808 drum machine by name, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roland. As we continue crowning MusicRadar's Gear of the Year, today we turn our attention to drum machines and grooveboxes, ...

So I've kinda sorta wound up in a band - of 5 guitar players and one singer. We're doing okay for now, but some of the stuff we want to play will require drums of some sort. This gives me the excuse I ...

Our hacker [Moritz Klein] shows us how to make a minimalist analog drum machine. If you want the gory details check out the video embedded below and there is a first class write-up available as a 78 ...