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808 Day is still a few days away, but Roland is getting the celebrations started early with the announcement of a sneaker collaboration with New Balance.

Though this isn’t the first time we’ve seen 808-styled shoes – The company previously collaborated with Adidas and Puma – but this time there’s a third party involved: Brazilian skateboarder Tiago Lemos.

In fact, the new sneaker is a special edition of the existing (and appropriately named) Tiago Lemos NM808, and one that’s designed to highlight “the intersection of skateboarding, hip-hop, and fashion.”

Although the TR-808 released in 1980, the sneaker itself also pays homage to the late ‘90s. It certainly takes design cues from Roland’s classic drum machine, though, with splashes of white, orange and yellow and a Roland logo and TR-808 badge on the tongue.

“Hip-hop has been the soundtrack for my skating, and at the heart of many classics was the 808,” says Tiago Lemos. “To have a collaboration with the legendary Roland 808 on my shoe is an honour.”

The Tiago Lemos NM808 x Roland sneaker is available now via the New Balance website, and will be rolling out to a select group of the company’s stores. You’ll also be able to find it in Roland’s Tokyo retail store and on the company’s Lifestyle web store. It costs $119.99.

If you want to fully clothe yourself in 808 garb, Roland Lifestyle and New Balance have also collaborated on a matching limited capsule collection featuring hoodies, t-shirts, and hats. This will be available exclusively on the Roland Lifestyle website.

Lastly, Roland will be celebrating 808 Day on Twitch with ‘808 Live’, an eight-hour jam featuring DJs such as Grandmaster Flash, DJ Roueche (Official DJ LA Lakers), Skratch Bastid, DJ Melo-D, DJ Bella Hue and more. And if you happen to be in LA on 808 Day, Roland Lifestyle will be hosting a launch event at 10pm at The Spotlight. You can RSVP for this on Dice website.

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Today, Gamechanger Audio introduces a new line of three AUTO audio effects: AUTO Reverb, AUTO Chorus, and AUTO Delay.

What they say about the line:

“The AUTO Series pedals are a fusion of classic audio effects and groundbreaking parameter automation.

Each AUTO Series pedal turns your performance into sound design, with your touch, dynamics, and note choices automating the effects parameters and shaping tones in real time – The AUTO Series reimagines what a pedal can be.”

Each pedal features two on-board automation sources that can produce automation signals based on specific elements of your performance:

• The DYNAMICS Engine monitors your instrument’s volume, your picking intensity, and overall playing dynamics.
• The PITCH Engine precisely tracks your note choices and overall instrument timbre.

With a simple patch-bay interface you can route these automation sources to any of the four primary effect knobs.

In addition, each pedal has four corresponding smaller knobs, also called attenuators – they determine the amount and direction of all parameter automation signals.

The separate AUTO footswitch engages the whole automation section, allowing you to easily switch from a standard effect mode to a pre-routed automation setting.

Each of the effects is available now, priced at $329.

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Synthesist Jonas Fasching shared this video, exploring the psychoacoustic possibilities of binaural recording of a synthesizer.

Binaural recording uses a pair of microphones, positioned similarly to human ears, to capture what a person would hear in the same position.

The video demonstrates how you can use binaural recording to capture real-world reverb and mix it with your synthesizers.

Here’s what Fasching shared about the technical details:

“In this video, I am trying to record a Synthesizer, the Novation Peak, in Binaural with the SR3D Binaural Microphones. I am recording the sounds of the synthesizer in a skatepark and i capture the sound of the room and the reverb with these binaural microphones.

While Fasching demonstrates the technique with a synthesizer, the same approach could be used with any instrument.

*Note: The term ‘binaural’ simply means ‘involving two ears’, rather than a specific technique. The term is used in several ways relating to recording and electronic music synthesis:

• Binaural recording refers to using a specialized microphone, as demonstrated in the video, to capture sound the way a person would hear it in the same position.
• Binaural mixing refers to mixing with psychoacoustic processing, in order to create an immersive spatial stereo mix.
• Binauaral beats refers to the psychoacoustic effect of hearing a ‘phantom’ tone or beat when you listen to two closely related tones in your left and right ear. For example, if you listen to a 440 Hz tone with your left ear and a 444 Hz tone with your right ear, you would hear a 4 Hz tone or beat (the difference between 440 & 444).
• Binaural synthesis is a term used to refer to two different concepts:
  • Artificially creating the psychoacoustic effects of spatial audio; and
  • An approach to sound synthesis that uses a separate channel to generate audio for each ear, instead of using a single synthesis channel and then using panning or effects to create a stereo effect.

What these have in common is that the effects are best heard, and in some cases only heard, when listening with headphones.

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