How to Use drum machine in a Sentence

drum machine

noun

• As a drummer, McGrady has always done a lot with a little, using just a floor tom, snare, drum machine, and tambourine.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2024
• And then the next thing was the rise of the sound player, the drum machine.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
• The 808 drum machine is known for its very deep bass sound.
  — Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2021
• There were lawsuits filed over (the surge of) drum machines.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
• The Diaphragms have rehearsal space, a drum machine, and no pride.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• With all the keyboards and the drum machines, Pat was very familiar with that sort of work.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
• The abnormal, yet catchy drumbeat would change the scope of what could be done on a drum machine and, thus, in hip hop.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
• There are guitars, a drum kit, drum machines and lots of percussion.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 June 2023
• Peter had bought a bunch of vintage keyboards and old drum machines.
  — Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2023
• There were a lot of musical ideas that Mike and Tony put together with a drum machine.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2022
• Shamir, Nick Valensi) Love the drum machine that’s being used throughout the album.
  — Jackson Weimer, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• The sensors attached to his fingers pick up this charge and use it to beat a virtual drum machine.
  — Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2010
• At this point in her process, Barnett would have normally called in her live bandmates and put the drum machine back on its shelf.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2021
• Most records now are made in people’s garages or bedrooms with computers and drum machine.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2018
• And also, very in our style, because Nick [Zinner] had this blue drum machine that felt signature to us.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2022
• It’s a moody, dramatic number, with a pulsing drum machine setting the pace.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2021
• Producer David Kahne was very meticulous in choosing who sung what and even used a drum machine rather than the group’s live drumming.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
• The song, which was their first track to utilize a drum machine, tells the story of a singer named Duchess who once played to enormous audiences, but falls on hard times in her later years.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2021
• Both moods cut just as deep in De Souza’s six-string slow burners, whether jangly or jagged, with bits of Auto-Tune and drum machine patterns sewn in.
  — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
• Musically the track hung on the relationship between the acoustic guitar and the drum machine that was part of the track from my demo.
  — Bryan Kress, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2018
• Slick followed Dessner’s instruction to play along with the song’s drum machine track, but the process of coming up with a drum part without being able to hear the lyrics or melody was strange.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2021
• The Crap is at once chaotic and defanged, with rudimentary drum machine grooves doing a poor job of taking the place of Headon.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 14 May 2022
• The role of the drum machine, for example, is more as accompanying percussion than four-on-the-floor dance beat.
  — Yoshi Kato, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2018
• In addition to more traditional stuff, there's synth-y stuff and 808 drum machine stuff.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 4 June 2022
• Many cuts feature a drum machine and open-G tuning, the guitar tuning preferred by Keith Richards.
  — Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 17 Nov. 2020
• The album’s layered sounds are equally organic and electronic, grounded as much in the piano as in the drum machine.
  — Emily J. Lordi Photographs By Liz Johnson Artur, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2020
• New York's foxiest hipsters run Afrobeat and Julian Casablancas croon through a drum machine.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 1 May 2020
• Hip-hop artists have long embraced the use of digital tools such as drum machines, turntables and synthesizers.
  — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• Antonoff fooled around with some simple keyboard voicings on a warm-sounding vintage synth, then programmed a spare, mid-tempo track on a drum machine.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
• Peter had been buying drum machines and vintage keyboards and odds and ends for some time in preparation for making a different record.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024