STEINBERG Backbone £130

ands up those of you who hoard samples. Don’t be shy. Now keep your hand up if the vast majority of your hoarded samples are drum hits. We thought so. The idea behind this hoarding, of course, is that by building up an extensive trove of samples you’re more likely to be able find the perfect sound for any given situation. But how often do you find that, despite giving over gigabytes of storage to reams of marginally dissimilar TR-808 and 909 hits, you still have to edit, modify and resample your sounds to get them to really bed in to your track? Sometimes you wonder if it would be better to just create a custom sound from scratch. Thankfully, doing that just become a lot easier thanks to Steinberg’s new Backbone Drum