▲Building a TB-303 from Scratch(loopmaster.xyz)
47 points by stagas 3 days ago | 6 comments
▲torusle 21 minutes ago
The fun thing was the Roland Sync. You could sync up all the TB-303, TB-909 and all the others with a 5-pole DIN cable. The sync was badly implemented. It lagged, it had latency.

However!

As soon as you cabled all together their imperfections added up and they started to groove like nothing that has been heard before.

▲keyle 1 hour ago
The TB-303 of reference to me is still Jeskola TB-303 :)

Back in my day of the demoscene and Buzz...

demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2kl-CW9snU

▲lagniappe 1 hour ago
Jeskola Buzz has a pretty interesting back story:

>The development of the core program, buzz.exe, was halted on October 5, 2000, when the developer lost the source code to the program. It was announced in June 2008 that development would begin again, eventually regaining much of the functionality.

▲djmips 30 minutes ago
Sounds like a real bad day.
▲skrebbel 14 minutes ago
Yeah it was pretty spectacular. The author was a bit paranoid, had never shared his sources with anyone or backed them up anywhere or version controlled them to a remote SVN server or anything like that. And then his hard drive failed and Buzz development was over. IIRC there even was a community-organized crowdfunding campaign to fund some fancy data recovery company to try and revive the hard drive so he could get the sources back (not sure if this ever turned out happening).
▲rollulus 46 minutes ago
I think “simulate” would’ve been a more accurate word than “build”.
▲bandrami 43 minutes ago
It warms my heart to see the 303 getting a renaissance
▲hnlmorg 3 minutes ago
I don’t recall it ever falling out of fashion.

It’s easily the most used and copied sound. Like the Amen Break of synths.

▲bowsamic 32 minutes ago
It’s a nice demonstration of this software but it really sounds very little like a 303
▲stagas 17 minutes ago
Try tweaking the accent multiplier to .1 from .5 - you can get there but it requires a lot of value tweaking. There's no singular TB-303 sound, but the components are there.
▲kennyloginz 37 minutes ago
This is cool, but I would personally find an og iMac and install rebirth.