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 ...

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.

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 ...