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Not so long ago Berlin held Ableton Loop event. It included 3 days (4-6 November) of discussions, performance, presentations, studio sessions and interactive workshops aimed at music ideas, art and technology exchange. Loop united musicians, developers, teachers and other creative personalities with their minds addressing the problems of the near and further future.

A small German company producing drum machines and modular components – AcidLab – announced the release of their new instrument called AcidLab Detroit. This drum machine is based on the concept of the legendary Roland TR-909 but Dipl. Ing. (FH) Klaus Süßmuth promises some elaboration comparing to the original models – he always improves his creations. Now we have only basic technical description and a photo of the new clone. The price of Detroit shouldn’t go beyond $800.

That drum machine wave which drifted the 80s into history as the time for cult dance music instruments brought a lot of units which would be copied and imitated after with enormous zealotry. But while musicians of that epoch had to enjoy vintage synthesizers the future was preparing for them big announcements of legendary drum machines being revised to fit the modern world. Analog renaissance of the XXI century keeps on flourishing and expands adding more and more of new possibilities. Here we’ll take a look at the great drum machines of the past (LinnDrum LM-2, Sequential Circuits TOM, Roland TB-303) as well as contemporary analog beat creatures - Dave Smith Instruments Tempest, Elektron Analog Rytm, and recent Arturia DrumBrute.

This time the update is considerable enough comprising 256 new programs, 80 multiprograms among which there are programs from popular K2xxx and PC3 series, new effects slots the number of which is twice bigger now and equals the number of those from Forte 7/8. If we count the total number of programs we should say that Forte SE surpassed the older models, so it seems that very soon we might learn about new firmware for Forte 7/8 as well.