Our friends Skinnerbox get their hands on Roland’s SE-02 – the Boutique series collaboration with Studio Electronics. Just don’t call it a Minimoog clone.

It seemed inevitable since Roland first announced its Boutique series: of course Roland would at some point remake the SH-101.

Beatonal is a cross platform app for easy music making on your device. It gives you drums, bass, chords and a lead to create tracks and to share them too

SynthDrum Pads 2.0 brings a sequencer, Audiobus, AB Remote, Link and more besides. It’s a good update with hygiene features that bring the app up to today’s standards and some more too

Yonac bring their latest synth to iOS. KASPAR uses automorphing superSynthesis technology and is a huge beast of a synth for you iDevice

Korg’s iOS apps are on sale and their in app purchases are on sale as well, so it’s a great time to snap up one of these apps.

Learn about sampling rate, aliasing, and the Nyquist frequency – stuff you need to know when working with digital audio – right in Ableton Live, visually.

Call it stimulated synesthesia: there’s something really satisfying when your brain sees and hears a connection between image and sound. And add some extra magic when the image is on an oscilloscope. A new video series on YouTube shows you how to make this effect yourself.

In this age of fast connection speeds, dirt-cheap drive costs, and commodity online storage and bandwidth, why would anyone not have a backup routine?

Logic Pro X gets another update this week. Apart from Apple’s continued fascination with automated Drummers, look to some new fluidity with sound, pitch, and time.