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Hot Space never quite lives up to that potential, with its tinny drum machine beats sounding like a pallid downgrade from the band’s dependable rhythm section.
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Al Shipley, SPIN, 18 May 2024
Equally impressive was the subsequent drum and percussion duet by Thompson and Stro Elliot, who deftly played a Maschine, a MIDI controller and digital drum machine with 16 pads.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2024
As a drummer, McGrady has always done a lot with a little, using just a floor tom, snare, drum machine, and tambourine.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2024
The 2011 iPadOS port of GarageBand, Apple’s popular entry-level digital audio workstation (DAW), triggered an avalanche of iPad apps marketed to musicians on the move, and an endless stream of digital gadgets like virtual synths and drum machines have flooded the App Store in the years since.
—Pete Cottell, WIRED, 2 May 2024
The project began after the two watched David Cronenberg’s 1983 sci-fi film Videodrome and were inspired by the film’s cyberpunk aesthetics; the album demos were just synths and drum machines.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 5 Mar. 2024
In the mid-1980s, producers and DJs introduced synthesizers and drum machines to dancehall reggae, which had emerged in Jamaica a few years before.
—Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
Peter had been buying drum machines and vintage keyboards and odds and ends for some time in preparation for making a different record.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
As hip-hop, one such scene, emerged in the U.S., Grainge observed how technology, in the form of early samplers and drum machines, could enfranchise artists who lacked access to instruments, music lessons, and studios.
—John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
Al Shipley, SPIN, 18 May 2024
Equally impressive was the subsequent drum and percussion duet by Thompson and Stro Elliot, who deftly played a Maschine, a MIDI controller and digital drum machine with 16 pads.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2024
As a drummer, McGrady has always done a lot with a little, using just a floor tom, snare, drum machine, and tambourine.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2024
The 2011 iPadOS port of GarageBand, Apple’s popular entry-level digital audio workstation (DAW), triggered an avalanche of iPad apps marketed to musicians on the move, and an endless stream of digital gadgets like virtual synths and drum machines have flooded the App Store in the years since.
—Pete Cottell, WIRED, 2 May 2024
The project began after the two watched David Cronenberg’s 1983 sci-fi film Videodrome and were inspired by the film’s cyberpunk aesthetics; the album demos were just synths and drum machines.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 5 Mar. 2024
In the mid-1980s, producers and DJs introduced synthesizers and drum machines to dancehall reggae, which had emerged in Jamaica a few years before.
—Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
Peter had been buying drum machines and vintage keyboards and odds and ends for some time in preparation for making a different record.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
As hip-hop, one such scene, emerged in the U.S., Grainge observed how technology, in the form of early samplers and drum machines, could enfranchise artists who lacked access to instruments, music lessons, and studios.
—John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
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“Drum machine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drum%20machine. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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