We know a lot of you love the Roland TR-808, but you’ll have to be someone who really loves it you’re going to consder splashing out on the company’s latest piece of drum machine-related merch. To ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It's the TR-808 drum machine's 40th anniversary this year, and Roland is marking 808 Day (8/08, of course) with a flood of goodies to ...

The Roland TR-808 and TR-909 are iconic drum machines that powered a ton of the music from the '80s and '90s. While both hardware units were recently revived as the TR-08 and TR-09, they haven't been ...

The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer is credited with more musical innovations than you can wave a plug socket at – even after its rocky start. After flopping commercially upon release in 1980, because ...

The sequencer on the 808, a row of 16 color-coded buttons, offered artists a way to store beats they programmed. Courtesy of Roland Even if you don't know the Roland TR-808 drum machine by name, ...

But Roland stopped making the 808 in the mid-80s. You can buy one on eBay now for around three grand (and maybe another grand to bring it into good working condition), or use one of the thousands of ...