This video demos the Tapehead Inspector - a sort of tangible sampler. 
Here’s the background on it, via Roy Mohan Shearer:
Inspired by the reversal of the name of a musical trio that I play in with Chris Croasdale and Mr. Jonnie Common. We’re really into tapes, and as Chris’ birthday was coming up Jonnie and I decided to make him [...]

The Bob Moog Foundation has been awarded an “Archiving and Preservation Planning Grant” from the GRAMMY Foundation to assess the preservation needs of the over 300 reel-to-reel tapes in Bob’s archives.
These tapes include seminal works in synthesis from the mid-60s to the late 70s, such as works from Herb Deutsch, Wendy Carlos, Larry Fast, Isao [...]

Matador records filmed a set of short documentaries on the all-analog mastering process by which Mission of Burma’s landmark recordings from the early 1980’s were re-mastered.
The process documented is vintage, old-school tape process. The gear is original. The vinyl is live cut.
It’s an interesting and timely set of videos:
Mission of Burma- Burma Reissue Mastering Sessions [...]

DUY has announced that DaD Tape is now available as an RTAS, Audio Units, VST and MAS plug-in.
DUY DaD Tape was originally developed for TDM in the mid-90s to satisfy the needs of digital recording technology, and escape the “cold digital recording media”. To achieve the desired results, four of the most representative tape machines [...]