Kanye West didn’t call the album “Generic Sample Pack of Hip Hop Drum Loops & Heartbreak” for a reason. Ikutaro Kakehashi’s 1980 creation of a programmable drum machine for Roland was ...

Tech specs: 140MB download featuring 100 acidised WAV drum loops, 100 REX2 loops, 182 drum samples and 13 ready to play patches for Halion, Kontakt, Reason NNXt, EXS and SFZ. A demo of Hip Hop Drums ...

Crucial to the rapid development of hip-hop at that time was the arrival of the relatively affordable sampler. Game-changing boxes such as the Akai MPC60 and E-mu SP-1200 gave producers the ability to ...