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.

Kicking things off in fine style this year is Japanese manufacturer Sonicware, best known for its highly affordable synths, samplers and grooveboxes, who has just released a fantastic-looking drum ...

CyDrums is a drum synth and sequencer built around a dual-oscillator wavetable synthesis engine equipped with 64 proprietary wavetables. Though it arrives with 520 preset sounds and 128 drum kits ...