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TB-303 owner here. If my TB-303 sounded this bad I'd set fire to it ;-) Really this is just an implementation of a basic oscillator, filter and envelope. No ha
by squigg 7mo ago
TB-303 owner here. If my TB-303 sounded this bad I'd set fire to it ;-)
Really this is just an implementation of a basic oscillator, filter and envelope. No harm in that all and it's more than I could manage - it's fun and nice, but it's nothing like a 303. "Building an acid synth" would be fairer.
The accent and glide are core components of the sound, as is the really quite unique sequencer control - from the strange bendy growls to the classic acid bark the accent brings out. Would have been nice to see a deeper dive into why that is and why it's different from implementing a normal portamento-style glide as many other synths do, like the SH-101 - which cannot sound that close to a 303 due to that glide. Well it's also got a different oscillator and filter, with no accent either, but I don't want that to ruin the story ;-)
- UncleEntity 7mo agoMy project over the last week was to get the robots to train a neural net to learn the "303 thing", hasn't gone well at all. The first one sounded like it was being played on a blown out speaker after it got run over and the second attempt sounded like it was going through a $20 pawn shop guitar pedal that got left in the rain which lead to the 'oh, you wanted the neural net to learn the 303's filter section? My bad, I just made some random stuff up as an approximation...' The worse part is there's still compute credits left over from the initial ten bucks so we just have to try again...
- louthy 7mo ago> TB-303 owner here. If my TB-303 sounded this bad I'd set fire to it ;-) Fellow TB-303 owner here. I concur.
- goatforce5 7mo agoI, too, have a TB-303. It seems like there might be a disproportionate number of 303 owners here on HN.
- Computer0 7mo agome too, and many clones...
- bikesharing 7mo ago[dead]
- nekooooo 7mo agothey should have referenced Rebirth - that one was spot on (i never owned a 303 though, just got access to one occasionally)
- wesz 7mo agoWhat do you think about mine implementation? https://drumpatterns.onether.com/drumkit/roland-tb-303/ https://drumpatterns.onether.com/drumkit/roland-tb-303/
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