Big-time music producers don’t just stack chips; they stack sounds, most often drum sounds. Doing so helps them create huge beats with unique tones. Of course, there’s nothing about the practice that ...

With a few notable exceptions, the fine art of tabletop tapping has been a purely non-digital experience for most people. Now, iDevice users can turn their rhythmic creations into real-time drum ...

Apple’s Logic Pro is a versatile application that enables musicians and producers to create, record and master audio. People use Logic in many different ways, depending on the type of project they are ...

The term ’drum machine’ can mean a multitude of things in 2023, encompassing everything from emulations of vintage beatboxes and new devices inspired by them, to full-on multichannel groove production ...

Austin-based sample specialists SympleSound have created a set of free drum samples in honour of Prince. Paying tribute to The Purple One, SympleSound has created PurpleDrums, a custom set of samples ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Everyone has seen someone play an air guitar that makes no sound. Now two researchers from Dublin have developed a program that allows a drummer beating sticks in the air to produce ...

Drum kits used to be key to any serious band, however, these days, much of our music is created on computer or using a drum machine instead. [spanceac] has built a simple example of the latter, using ...

In the introduction to this series, I remarked that the new Holy Grails of pop iconography (the up-side-down Stratocaster of Jimi Hendrix; the circular array of Neil Peart’s drum-set) are increasingly ...

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 ...

I’m going to ask you a question about today’s hits. More specifically, today’s drum hits: when it comes to the popular music of our era, how many songs feature real, acoustic drums—of the kind played ...