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Anyone sharing a home with a musician will appreciate advances in technology that make for quieter practice. Wearing headphones while playing electronic drums is already a good way to keep the noise down, but Roland’s latest release is claimed to deliv… Continue reading Roland declares war on in-room noise with V-Drums Quiet Design
For most of our prototype, hobby, or one-off electronics projects it’s perfectly fine to use a development platform like an Arduino Uno or something to that effect. They’re both easy …read more Continue reading Arduino PLC Keeps the Beat
The world’s largest music gear expo is set to open its doors next week, and Yamaha has popped up early with a groove machine called the Seqtrak that could have jumped straight out of Teenage Engineering’s design playbook.Continue ReadingCategory: Music… Continue reading Yamaha gets in the groove with compact all-in-one music machine
Around this time last year, as part of its 50-year celebrations, California’s Drum Workshop announced the upcoming release of an acoustic/electronic drum set featuring wireless triggering tech. Now the DWe convertible kits have officially launched.Cont… Continue reading Acoustic/electronic drumkits cut cable clutter with wireless triggering
Back in the late 1960s, creating music anywhere was made much easier with a now iconic toy-like pocket synth called the Stylophone. Now Dubreq is aiming to do the same for beat makers with a portable drum machine.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, Techno… Continue reading Stylophone Beat puts a portable groove machine in your pocket
It goes without saying that drum kits take up a lot of space, and are very noisy. The Aerodrums 2 system, however, allows drummers to practice in silence using just a camera module, foot markers, and a special set of drum sticks – no actual drums are i… Continue reading Aerodrums 2 system takes air-drumming to the next level
The soul of a rock band is its rhythm section, usually consisting of a drummer and bass player. If you don’t believe that, try listening to a band where these …read more Continue reading Beat Backing Box for Bassists
Way back in January 2021, at the NAMM trade expo, Korg offered a brief sneak preview of a powerful new analog/digital drum machine, and then all went quiet. Now the “three-fold hybrid” Drumlogue has finally gone up for pre-order.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Korg finally launches versatile Drumlogue hybrid drum machine
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 …read more Continue reading Electronic Drum Toy Built From Scratch
Roland has been pounding out electronic drums for decades, most recently going for a traditional kit look and feel. The latest V-Drums release returns to the familiar skeletal setup of old and is claimed to offer “the finest electronic drumming experie… Continue reading Roland aims for bashers on a budget with latest V-Drums kit