Entries tagged with “drums” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Fourteen minutes into last week's Digital Media Insider podcast, "Secrets of the Demo Gods," I asked longtime reviewer Mark Nelson if any recent music-making gear had surprised him. Mark started praising the M-Audio Black Box, a digital guitar effect co-designed by Roger Linn, the drum-machine pioneer (and a fine guitarist himself). "It was just...inspiring. Amazing stuff would happen," Mark enthused....

iZotope and Goldbaby are offering XRB Free, a set of 16 iDrum Kits and 74 Apple Loops that work in GarageBand. The free loops are part of a larger commercial product called XRB. If you like the free loops, they are available for purchase at iZotope's web store for a promotional price of $29 USD until July 23rd, 2006, when the price will return to $49 USD.

Drums are a very important component of today's sound, and since they are also famously very difficult to record for the average home studio guy, many musicians prefer to use a drum machine, or drum samples within their audio/MIDI sequencers. Dedicated hardware drum machines are still being produced by several manufacturers, and the same goes for software: examples include ReDrum...

This Flash-based drum machine is the first one I’ve seen where the notes aren’t quantized, which produces an interesting, sloppy feel. Cool sounds, too.