You may not know the 808 drum machine, but you have definitely heard it: the original Roland TR-808 was the first programmable drum machine and has been a mainstay of electronic music ever since.

That headline sounds suspect, but it is the most succinct way to explain why the Roland TR-808 drum machine has a very distinct, and difficult to replicate noise circuit. The drum machine was ...

A physical drum machine is essentially a box that plays drum sounds. They can either use synthesized sounds or audio samples.

The album, released in 2008, replaced his signature rap with Auto-Tuned vocals and minimalist beats created with the TR-808 drum machine. Ye described his experience as “losing an arm and a leg ...