Okay, for anyone who thought the TR-808 shoes were too much, you may want to sit down. Now there’s a craft beer immortalizing the Roland drum machine for #808day.

Roland now routinely enjoy the fact that August 8 is “808” day. But we aren’t seeing new product announcements today as in some past years. What you get instead is a bunch of updates for existing gear. Here they are in one place so you can see what’s relevant to you.

No moment cements the TR-808 as a sex symbol quite like its role in “Sexual Healing.” And we may have a producer who found the actual drum machine used in the song.

Fred Anton Corvest’s Envolver app takes a big step forward with version 2 which now works as an audio effect too with a follower noise gate and trance like trigger gate

Bliptronic is powered by AudioKit and might remind you of some hardware from the last decade or so. If you can remember the Bliptronic 5000 that is

It’s definitely an underground subculture of audiovisual media, but lovers of graphics made with vintage displays, analog oscilloscopes, and lasers are getting their own fall festival to share performances and techniques.

TonalEnergy is so much more than just a tuner and metronome, it can do way more and really shouldn’t be underestimated. If you’ve never seen this app before you should check it out as it’s a real swiss army knife in your iOS toolkit

Cycle is a time lag accumulator for iOS that will have you producing unexpected sonic textures, and now it works with inter app audio and audiobus too

The monome made history by transforming the virtual world of the computer into a low-fidelity grid of lights and buttons. But it’s no less magical today – especially in the hands of stretta.

Experimental legend Richard D. James isn’t just giving us more microtonal synthesizers – he’s giving us new music, too. And now we know some details, after the Aphex Twin logo showing up everywhere.