Seeking quality sounds from music's most coveted drum machines? Look no longer. Thanks to the good folks at Autodafe, an expansive archive of 150 rare vintage drum machines is here for the taking. And ...

drumbit looks like this. You can select master volume, tempo, swing, instrument set, and audio effects in the upper left. The '1', '2', '3', and '4' in the upper right represent measures. The drumbit ...

Replay: The legendary Linn LM-1 drum machine came out in 1980 and only 525 were ever made. What makes this long discontinued drum machine so unique that top producers and engineers are still using it ...

The heart of the Atari 2600 wasn’t the 6502 (or the 6507 for the pedants), it was the TIA chip. This is the chip responsible for drawing graphics on the display, racing the beam, and extremely limited ...

As technology advances further, it's easier to get into the biz of music production—at this point, any kid with an Internet connection can torrent Ableton Live and become the next super-producer. Now, ...

Everyone loves an iconic drum machine. Celebrated beatboxes like the Roland TR-808 and TR-909 dominate the conversation in music tech, and appear in more famous tracks than we'd care to list. But ...

It’s almost impossible to imagine the modern musical landscape without the distinctive sounds of the Roland TR-808 drum machine. When the Japanese electronics company Roland started releasing the 808 ...

Sly and the Family Stone’s There’s a Riot Goin’ On, a bleak collection of songs by a man who had been a great optimist, was released 40 years ago yesterday. A strange, dark album that nonetheless sold ...

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, ...