Aside from a few interesting outliers, most hardware drum machines come equipped with a step sequencer that will be loosely rooted in the design used by Roland’s classic 808 and 909. However ...

With a fresh lick of paint, DrumBrute Impact 1984 looks undeniably fetching with its orange-accented off-white stylings, but ...

(Using transformers as bits, what fun!) So for a working sequencer, each ferrite ring controls an instrument. Ring 1 is a kick drum, ring 2 is a snare, etc. Then each wire is a different step ...

At the instrument’s heart is a step sequencer, one of the earliest forms of assembling electronic music and drum patterns. Connect the OP-XY to outboard gear, as well as use the onboard synth engines ...