Teenage Engineering is a company that follows its own path. It'll release a $250 toy car one day and a full-featured groovebox/sampler for $300 on the very next day. That's what happened this week.

A compact archive of electronic-music history, the Groovebox is a machine equipped with an encyclopedic collection of synthesized sounds taken from classic drum machines (including the beloved 808) ...

Keeping track of Roland's various drum machines and grooveboxes is getting tough. But its latest, the Verselab MV-1 is unique for a number of reasons. For one, it's the company's only instrument that ...

The Roland SP-404 Mk2 is a popular groovebox that can deliver a great beat if you know how to use it. If you’re seeking greater control than is available out of the box, though, you might like to try ...

Teenage Engineering’s new $300 groovebox has no business being this cute. That’s the whole point. The EP-133 K.O.II (we’ll just call it Knock Out II) is a combination drum machine, synthesizer and ...

Playtime Engineering has announced the launch of Blipblox myTRACKS, a groovebox and sampler for kids. Described as a "complete music production studio" for children as young as three years old, ...

The groovebox was a peculiar device that allowed musicians to create both beats and synthesizer loops on the same device. Roland and Yamaha had both released products in the early 2000s, but software ...

Let’s face it: if you want to make music on the go, chances are you already have an iPhone in your mitts. But every now and again, an app comes to short-changed Android users, showing that platform ...

If you’re looking for a way to lose a few hours later today, you could do a lot worse than Groovebox, a free music-making app for iPhone and iPad. It’s simple enough to start making music as soon as ...

Holdouts balk at the idea of pawing at a glass surface when making music. They don’t know what they’re missing. The iPad – and to some extent the iPhone – revolutionised music-making on the go. And it ...