But commercially available drum machines didn’t show up until the mid-20th century. The first, the Chamberlin Rhythmate, was made in 1949.

But when it comes to punch, no drum machine has been more popular than Roland's TR-808, debuted in 1980. For Mansfield and other musicians, the 808 stands out for its signature kick drum, with a ...

Visco 2.0 adds a new tonal mode, which reconfigures the drum machine’s sound engine to allow it to function as a synthesizer. When switched on, rather than playing or sequencing multiple sounds across ...

A landmark product in the history of music technology, LinnDrum was the successor to the Linn LM-1, itself the first drum machine to use samples of real drums and the first to quantize the user's ...

Ghost In The Machine: The Most Important Drum Machines in Music History The Beat Box collection of Joe Mansfield is on display at the Red Bull Music Academy's NYC headquarters. Reshma B May 26, 2014 ...

We have marked the release date of the first widely used drum machine, the Roland CR-78 in ’78, and the first influential digital sampler, the Linn LM-1 in 1980 in the figure.