Sonicware has added another product to its Liven range of grooveboxes: the Lofi-12 is designed to emulate the sound of old-school samplers. Promising to “turn everything lo-fi,” this has a ...

Hardware sampling is officially back. As the power of music software rapidly advanced throughout the ‘00s and ‘10s, hardware samplers began to fall out of fashion as producers favoured the flexibility ...

Back when I was a kid (puts on old man glasses) we had the Casio SK-1. We'd spend all day making samples of burps and turning them into stupid little songs, but that's about as far as it went. You ...

If you’re looking for a way to lose a few hours later today, you could do a lot worse than Groovebox, a free music-making app for iPhone and iPad. It’s simple enough to start making music as soon as ...

Keeping track of Roland's various drum machines and grooveboxes is getting tough. But its latest, the Verselab MV-1 is unique for a number of reasons. For one, it's the company's only instrument that ...

Elektron's music machines are not always obvious devices, marrying synths, drum machines, grooveboxes and sampling together in pretty much whichever way you wish, focusing on everything from dynamic ...

The groovebox was a peculiar device that allowed musicians to create both beats and synthesizer loops on the same device. Roland and Yamaha had both released products in the early 2000s, but software ...