Roland has teamed up with Serato again for a new range of hybrid drum machine DJ Controllers. Combining the boutique TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines with Serato DJ controllers, the DJ-505 and DJ-202 ...

Electronic music instrument maker Roland has branded today, September 9, as #909day. To celebrate, the company behind pioneering synths and drum machines such as the TR-808 and, most appropriately, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It looks like Roland is making a wholehearted effort to turn itself into a player in the DJ ...

Back in March, Akai Professional released an iPad app that aims to emulate its classic MPC drum machine. Akai is perhaps best known for the MPC— a series of physical drum machine/midi ...

Interestingly, although NI launched a new Traktor controller of its own last week, Traktor Play is launching bundled with a selection of hardware devices from rival brands. Both AlphaTheta’s DDJ-FLX2 ...

Since the release of their unorthodox debut album, Hello Mom! in 2005, few acts have embodied Berlin’s ever-shifting electronic music scene quite like Modeselektor. From their early days in the ...

Apple on Wednesday launched GarageBand 2.1 for iOS, introducing a new feature called Live Loops which aims to make it easy for anyone to create music like a live DJ, and also adding hardware-specific ...

We’ve all seen it: A DJ is up onstage “making beats,” but there’s no drum kit in sight. Instead, her nose is glued to a computer screen, her hands poking the occasional slider or knob. Electronic ...

The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer is credited with more musical innovations than you can wave a plug socket at – even after its rocky start. After flopping commercially upon release in 1980, because ...

The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer is credited with more musical innovations than you can wave a plug socket at – even after its rocky start. After flopping commercially upon release in 1980, because ...