Austin-based sample specialists SympleSound have created a set of free drum samples in honour of Prince. Paying tribute to The Purple One, SympleSound has created PurpleDrums, a custom set of samples ...

Beta Monkey Music — one of the most popular drum loops companies in the music business — is offering customers free drum loops, some new grooves and a completely redesigned Web site. As part of the ...

Want to make trap beats like one of the all-time greats? Zaytoven, a pioneer of the Atlanta sound, has shared a pack of 81 samples of drums and loops for you to tinker with. Download them all here at ...

Tech With the TR-1000 Roland has given analogue purists what they want – so can we move on from X0X clones now? Tech "Everybody was screaming out, 'what record is that?!' It wasn't a record – it was ...

We're nothing if not environmentally conscious here at MusicRadar, and what better way to do our part for the planet than to recycle our junk into music? You know how the old saying goes: one man's ...

As a guitar player, I like to have a pounding drum beat behind behind my rock guitar riff. The trouble is, I’ve found most drum loops to be—to put it diplomatically—dissatisfying. The heck with being ...