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 ...

The groovebox is based on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 and includes enough storage for 16 tracks with a sequencer for each track ... There’s also a drum machine built in which can record and loop ...

(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 ...

Playbeat 4 features new genre-based generation algorithms that guide its groove engine towards a combination of up to three styles ...