NAMM 2025: Billed as “the first fully programmable drum machine in guitar pedal form,” Polyend’s Step is the beatmaking box that you can control with your feet. Already known for its grooveboxes - the ...

Two buttons sit atop its sleek surface and are used for triggering the drum machine and turning the pedal on/off. A Master ...

It’s how drum machines stay in sync with arpeggiators ... I also wired it through the expression pedal of the Hammond, so I could get [percussion] accents, which no one was doing then.

The term ’drum machine’ can mean a multitude of things in 2023, encompassing everything from emulations of vintage beatboxes and new devices inspired by them, to full-on multichannel groove production ...