Bill Collins has bought a CD player and has already put it to Rhythmic use is Volume two in the Sonic Images series

Bill Collins brings you some rhythms from Africa

Bill Collins gives us the latest news from the hi-tech percussion world

A straightforward guide to producing Dance Mixes using budget equipment.

Beat Box Hits

Or, the much-maligned art of drum machine programming. Tony Reed talks to the experts, and Richard Walmsley dissects some classic tracks.

Beatman Bill and the latest percussive pieces of news

Bill Collins' first of his regular looks at the special need of micro-based Rhymists

Wild man Bill Collins looks at the Simmons SDX system and gives us a few drum patterns to try out

Sure, it's a drum machine - but the HR16 also makes a great drum expander module if you know a few crucial tricks about applying it. Craig Anderton explains all.

Drum Fill-Ins introduced

Part 5: Two-measure patterns

Part 8

...Beating Like This

...Beating Like This. If your drum machine is too robotic and your drum kit is too static, Matt Isaacson and Chris Meyer's tour of 'alternative' percussion controllers may be right up your street.

Beating Like This

...Beating Like This. In the third part in our series on creative drum programming, Chris Meyer and Matt Isaacson take a detailed look at the various trigger-to-MIDI converters now available.

...Beating like this. We start a major new series on how to make your drum machine - no matter what its spec - sound more interesting, both sonically and rhythmically. Your guides are Chris Meyer and Matt Isaacson.

...Beating Like This

...Beating Like This forever, and so Matt Isaacson's examination of "drum bugs" (and other nasties) and their applications for triggering electronic drum brains brings this series to a close.