#22

The tail sounds like there’s cooing pigeons in there, or does the loop do a forward/reverse boomerang thing?

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#23

man! Great stuff here. I probably won’t be kicking in anything this week–I’m doing crazy exotic artsy things like tending the garden and driving my daughter around :)–but I have to say, this weeks’ thing reminds me of why I love this group. I’m inspired to read up on the history of the 303, acid house, Berlin School, and lots of other stuff. I’m inspired by your courage and creativity in “bending” technology and ideas to new uses (including cranking the software up to 100,000 BPM and crashing the browser)! And most of all I’m just really enjoying listening to all this great music. Thanks you all!

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#24

Yep :slight_smile: Complete with pigeons just outside the office :slight_smile:

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#25

used Logic ES1 Subtractive Synth, modified to supposedly sound like a 303. not exactly unexpected, sound-wise, but hey it’s my first post here so.

Edit: just realized I didn’t set the track as Downloadable in Soundcloud. Fixed!

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#26

I thought I’d try mimicking an actual, specific bass guitar line, since that’s not really done much with the 303. Used Freebee after not being able to use another 303 emulator. I like how it’s notes say there will be no future versions since the code is on a dead hard drive.
My attempt to copy the bassline for an old song called “Reason” was pretty much a failure, but I liked the sounds I got.
Next unusual thing was to add a one-take 12-string guitar, with reverb, echo and stereo enhancing from iZotope’s free plugin. A drum loop, and a vocal singing parts from the original song with a little Melodyne tweaking at the end, and that was all.

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#27

https://soundcloud.com/davedorgan/bt-030-disquiet0303

I decided to create something that had not beat. This seemed counter to what the TB-303 was/is used for.

  • I found a set of good sounding .wav samples of a TB-303 at:
    http://www.rolandclan.com/library/tb-303/
  • The TB-303 samples were the only sound source for this piece.
  • Took three of the samples and loaded them into Iris2. Pencilled in random sections of each sample. Ran each to run bkwrd-frwrd.
  • Track 1 is the sound from Iris2 playing a low D for four bars and then repeating. Added Quadravox and Filterjam effects.
  • Track 2 is the same sound and effects alternating each four bars between G and A two octaves higher. It really wanted to resolve, but not this time.
  • Tracks 3 & 4 are the same IRIS2 sound with shorter notes, and Hysteresis and Flterjam. Different Hysteresis setting on each. Each panned further left/right.
  • Those four tracks were bounce and put in Ambient_v0.3. The out put of that was turned into Track 5. It is the background throughout the piece including the opening and ending.
  • Track 6 is Track 1 played down an octave. The volume was animated to come in and out when Tracks 3 and 4 were quiet.
  • Mixed and Mastered in Logic.
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#28

Really enjoying listening to this weeks Junto tracks.

So whilst the Roland 303 is in our thoughts I wondered if any of you wanted to share memories of when you first became aware of this unique sound / noise?

I remember in 1988 hearing the first Acid House tracks, via my older brother - what was that noise I thought - that was the famous squelchy 303 acid sound and thinking it was music from another planet.
I have a great UK Acid compilation from around this time called Acid Bang and I gave it a spin this morning and suddenly everything felt like my teenage self 28-30 years ago!

Also later who could not remember Josh Winks Higher State of Consciousness - the original acid version was something else!

Any other thoughts and memories?

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#29

In 1988 I would’ve only been 12 or 13, so my earliest memories of acid are fairly poppy things that made it on TV here in New Zealand - e.g. Theme from S-Express by S-Express and The Only Way Is Up by Yazz & The Plastic Population (surely not a 303, listening to it now).

I also remember discovering the original “Pure Trance” version of What Time Is Love probably 5 years after the fact and just being … well, entranced. :wink: Again, not even sure there’s a 303 in there? But I still love it.

Also, if people don’t know the TM404 album from a few years’ back, I regard it as pretty essential. Depends what you’re into, but it’s dubbed out home listening stuff but made with 100% Roland gear in live takes. That could be very boring, but the guy’s got impeccable taste IMO. (Andreas Tilliander, who has pretty long pedigree.)

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#31

https://soundcloud.com/ethanhein/303-soul-pride-disquiet0303

This idea started very complicated, and I kept cutting stuff and cutting stuff until I was left with the truth: four James Brown breakbeats vocoded through a 303 drone, a track I did many years ago with Propellerhead Rebirth for a piece of downtown theater.

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#32

666 bpm
lots of delay

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#33

Hey all, crazy busy but here goes nothing,

Entering 303(disquiet0303)
Not much time for this weeks prompt, forgive the ugliness. Thought maybe a fugue in bass might fit, especially one slowed and gritty. Used mostly synths from Gadget and bounced to Cubasis where some field recordings run through Borderlands and Nebulizer were added as intro and ending. Since 303 is also the original area code for Colorado, I thought some local noise would be appropriate! With the current trend, next weeks title should be 202… Sorry bout the brevity, the brain and body are overworked and running at quarter speed :frowning_face:

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#34

Since there’s an ‘acid’ module for aleph (obviously inspired by the TB303) I decided to sit with it for a bit & try to create a track. Kria & WW help to stop things getting exactly repetitive as I improvise a frantic knob-twiddle-fest like it’s 1989!

Sound is direct off the aleph with no processing in one take.

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#35

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/clach-disquiet-0303

A darker side of the Propellerhead Rebirth 303.

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#36

First contribution to the Junto. Idea was to use virtual 303s to have it perform polyphonically in way which was never intended. Layered a load of Transistor Bass instances in FL Studio…

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#37

Welcome to the Junto, @Ruairi!

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#38

Very interesting how you break the loopy tradition with this and esp like how the second half is a break from first half

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#39

Apologies this is a bit late, but on the original use of the TB-303, I hope all have seen this ad from 1982 featuring jazz pianist Oscar Peterson.

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