Thread: This arrived in Dublin Today for me

Its a clone of the TB-303. Reversed engined to sound just like it. Mines the very same only it has red LEDs like the original.

here it is, what do you guys think?

I think you have lovely hands

Nice bit of kit there Bar me old Squelchy bass sound making love child

Oooooh nice, and hands on too - So much better than VST.*

Love it. How much did that cost? I love the 303 but I'm not good at programing acid lines so I use a 303 rompler called Silverbox. Does the job quite well.

groovy bit of kit that...which reminds me, i must get my groovebox back off curly. i aint played with it for over a year!

Originally Posted by Mortis

Love it. How much did that cost? I love the 303 but I'm not good at programing acid lines so I use a 303 rompler called Silverbox. Does the job quite well.

It was £386.

Originally Posted by Bar

It was £386.

Fookin' ell

For that much you could buy a mentally challenged Chinese baby from Japan!

I had a go of one of these last year. Authentic 303 sounds, but much easier for me to use my ABL2 vst which is 'free' & I can assign the filters to my usb keyboard so can tweak 'live' if needed.
Plus the vst has extra things on it which these boxes don't (unless u pay for the extra alterations).

If you have a hardware studio though, then I'm sure this would be a good buy - probably half the price of a real TB303 & sounds almost identical.

Originally Posted by RenegadeGenius

I had a go of one of these last year. Authentic 303 sounds, but much easier for me to use my ABL2 vst which is 'free' & I can assign the filters to my usb keyboard so can tweak 'live' if needed.
Plus the vst has extra things on it which these boxes don't (unless u pay for the extra alterations).

If you have a hardware studio though, then I'm sure this would be a good buy - probably half the price of a real TB303 & sounds almost identical.

I'm happy to hear it sounds like one. I know the company say it does, but of course they will lie to flog you anything. Its reversed engineered from a TB303 so they say. That ABL2 is a great synth but not for 303 sounds, I love to make basslines and sequences on it. Its a fucking nightmare for trying to do pads!

Originally Posted by Bar

I'm happy to hear it sounds like one. I know the company say it does, but of course they will lie to flog you anything. Its reversed engineered from a TB303 so they say. That ABL2 is a great synth but not for 303 sounds, I love to make basslines and sequences on it. Its a fucking nightmare for trying to do pads!

ABL2 is a 303 clone, so does those acid style sounds very nicely :

abl2-demo-with-fx.mp3 - DivShare
(Demo I did the other day - along with some fx and how they make the synth sound)

You can't do pads on it.

Originally Posted by RenegadeGenius

ABL2 is a 303 clone, so does those acid style sounds very nicely :

abl2-demo-with-fx.mp3 - DivShare
(Demo I did the other day - along with some fx and how they make the synth sound)

You can't do pads on it.

My mistake I was thinking of ABL Bassline PRO which is a Modular Synth. ABL is good but I'd much rather use this 303 vst:
D16 Group Audio Software - Beyond Perfection - Phoscyon

Originally Posted by Bar

My mistake I was thinking of ABL Bassline PRO which is a Modular Synth. ABL is good but I'd much rather use this 303 vst:
D16 Group Audio Software - Beyond Perfection - Phoscyon

Yeah the pro is something I've not had a proper go of yet (quite complex!).

And that D16 synth is the other one I was trying to think of - has a few extra nice bits you can do with the accent / filter controls.

Originally Posted by RenegadeGenius

Yeah the pro is something I've not had a proper go of yet (quite complex!).

And that D16 synth is the other one I was trying to think of - has a few extra nice bits you can do with the accent / filter controls.

Yeah its pretty complex but once you get your head around it you can make some excellent sounds on it.