One of my drumming heroes is Stewart Copeland for his work with The Police, watching him whack his Tama drums was pure joy. So here's one such kit for you to make your own music with, complete with reverb. Enjoy!

• Get It Here- as usual at the end of the list.

It's been some time since we went into the vaults and found some drum machines that some may have forgotten, others may never heard of. Well this time here are a generation of products that for some will bring a  smile to their face. Some were considered toys by musicians, for others groundbreaking. These babies are samples perfect for everything from Hip Hop to Euro pop.

• Mattel Synsonic
• Synare
• Sakata DPM48

Get them here

Our misfortune, is your good luck. The recent hacking of the store meant that most of the sound files were stolen and then deleted. It's caused some real problems. However we know that lots of you still want to buy the sounds.

Therefore we are offering all sounds at the download price, but we'll send them on DVD to you (normally a £10 charge).

If you want to order, simply go to the store and order the download version, at Paypal include your shipping address and we'll do the rest.

We hope this is OK until we've dealt with the issues at the store.

Wow, here's a potential game changer: http://www.iconnectivity.com/

Simply plug your electronic instrument (synthesizer, guitar, whatever) into iConnectMIDI and you can play and control your music, using your iPhone or iPod, your instrument, or both at the same time.

You’re not limited to one musical instrument either. With iConnectMIDI you can connect up to 16 devices in a chain, controlling all of them with your iPhone or iPod Touch.

From what I understand, it allows you to connect your iphone to it, and then provides you with midi outputs. It also seems to work the other way around, allowing you to use a usb enabled keyboard to play you iPhone apps

I think that apps have to be modified to support this device but think of the wild possibilities of the iPad with midi control implemented...

I've been messing around sampling my Telecaster again, partly based on my dissatisfaction with how clinical sampled instruments can sound.

So I sampled every string 3 times, but didn't show too much attention to how the plectrum hit the string, this was based on my experience that when you play a guitar that no two strums are ever the same. So some hits are spot on, others mis-hits, you get the idea. Added to this I added random string on and off noises, plus random 'crap'. The whole thing was sampled directly through the awesome Eleven Rack and then effects added afterwards. Use the mod wheel and you'll get the craziest retro sound, almost a morph between a guitar and an organ.

• MP3 Demo Here

Let me know what you think, I think it's pretty damn cool.

As usual you can find it here