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) ...

Akai just revealed its most powerful standalone groovebox, the MPC XL. For the uninitiated, the MPC has been around since the 1980s and pretty much defined hip hop from that era. The line has ...

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 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 ...

Grooveboxes are the best and fastest ways to get musical ideas down, or inspire completely new tunes. They’re easy to use, cost effective, you don’t need computers to use them and you can often take ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the massive success of Groovebox Festival 2022 and Groovebox Open Air at Nottingham Racecourse, they're back for another year BIGGER & BETTER... Expect a hefty all-day affair with some of the ...