How to Use drum machine in a Sentence

drum machine

noun

• And a ton of this wall of senses is drum machines.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
• And then the next thing was the rise of the sound player, the drum machine.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
• There's a looper, tuner, metronome, and drum machine at the ready.
  — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 23 Jan. 2026
• Peter had bought a bunch of vintage keyboards and old drum machines.
  — Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2023
• There are guitars, a drum kit, drum machines and lots of percussion.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 June 2023
• The Diaphragms have rehearsal space, a drum machine, and no pride.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• Sequencers and drum machines, on the other hand, march in lockstep.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 13 Apr. 2026
• Most records now are made in people’s garages or bedrooms with computers and drum machine.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• Her voice sounds pure and soft over a tangle of synthesizers, gamelan, harp, and drum machine.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
• Then the person across from me added a synth arpeggio on top and another set up a hi-hat sequence using a drum machine.
  — Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 29 Dec. 2025
• There were a lot of musical ideas that Mike and Tony put together with a drum machine.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Wallen, for example, makes slick, sultry songs with drum machines and Drake-ish vocal cadences.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 June 2024
• 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
• The idea was to put more of a modern twist on this older sound, with the hazy, fuzzy synths, the drone-y guitar and the real distorted drum machine.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 24 June 2024
• In addition to more traditional stuff, there's synth-y stuff and 808 drum machine stuff.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 4 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• Shamir, Nick Valensi) Love the drum machine that’s being used throughout the album.
  — Jackson Weimer, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• House music’s innovators turned to the drum machine to create the genre’s foundational four-on-the-floor dance rhythm.
  — Joycelyn Wilson, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2025
• 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
• 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
• The demos were of varying quality, many recorded on a boombox and embellished, at most, by a primitive drum machine.
  — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Van Etten took on the record’s guitar, synthesizers, piano, drum machine, wurlitzer, keys, and more.
  — Marisa Whitaker, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2022