I was having a discussion with a friend of mine who has an audio-engineering background about this sort of thing recently. Something to the effect of, even if y

I was having a discussion with a friend of mine who has an audio-engineering background about this sort of thing recently. Something to the effect of, even if you program in the exact waveforms a TR-808 was attempting to synthesize into a digital synth, the digital synth wouldn't sound like a TR-808 because the TR-808 had slight noise and flaws in its analog circuitry, so in order to get a true emulation you had to account for those too. And that's part of why 80s music sounded so distinctive, in a way that's difficult to replicate today... it was a sound that came from the specific equipment used at the time, equipment which is much harder to source and simulate in the present.