Drum machine Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Daily iPhone App: Beats+

by Mike Schramm (Jan 4th, 2012)

Beats+ is a niche app, but it's probably very useful for the kind of person who could use it. It's a simple but powerful drum machine app, featuring over 50 different drum loops (frequent updates keep the library fresh) to be used as accompaniment with whatever kind of music you want. In ...

Akai SynthStation49 full-size iPad dock/keyboard combo

by David Quilty (Jan 14th, 2011)

While it's not the kind of iPhone or iPad dock you would bring with you on your next cross-country plane ride, the Akai SynthStation49 dock offers up something a standard iPad dock doesn't -- a 49-key, velocity-sensitive keyboard controller complete with drum pads and manual pitch control. As ...

Pianist Pro 1.5 for the iPad adds MIDI Mobilizer support from Line 6

by Matt Tinsley (Sep 13th, 2010)

From MooCowMusic comes the latest iteration of their renowned iPad app, Pianist Pro 1.5 (£5.99). Most notably, Pianist Pro now incorporates the MIDI Mobilizer technology from Line 6, enabling Pianist Pro on your iPad, with the Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer adapter (£45) or wirelessly over Wi-Fi, ...

IR-909 brings old school beatmaking to the iPhone

by Joshua Ellis (May 16th, 2008)

Back in 1984, Roland released the TR-909 drum machine as a successor to their legendary 808. Over the years, the 909 became one of the most influential and widely-used instruments in the history of electronic music, right up there with the Minimoog and the AKAI MPC sampler. Now you can pick up ...

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