808 samples are relatively easy to make, in fact you don’t even need a TR-808 to make the highly desired sound everyone in the industry wants. For the most part you can create an 808 simply by loading up your favorite synth with a sine or triangle wave, creating a pitch sweep using an envelope and running it through whatever distortion plugin you favor (I like Ableton’s overdrive for this). If you want to know more about making your own sounds, you can check out this video tutorial I made for Black Octopus Sound on creating 808 sub bass in Serum.