Hacker News Reader

Comment by malvosenior | Hacker News Reader

Roland recently reissued many of their classic synths including an updated 303. Now it’s called the TB-03 and it has a “friendly” step programming option in addition to the original crazy style:

https://www.roland.com/us/products/tb-03/

View on HN

The only reason I didn't mention the tb-03 is that it is essentially a digital(software) option, whereas the TT-03 is still analog. I still think it sounds pretty good.

The TB-03 provides a fairly faithful and accurate reproduction of the TB-303's sound.

The TT-303, on the other hand, despite being "circuit identical", can sound downright weird at times (as can Roland's other "analog modeling" 303 reproduction, the TB-3)

Here is a 4 way comparison of the 4 synths I just mentioned complete with waveform visualizations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8CAEUU_ics

Very true. The look and feel of the TB-03 is second to none though. Imho the build quality is much higher than the original 303.

Behringer are also bringing out a bunch of clones. I think they may have just released a 303 clone. Can't speak to the quality of it though. Always found Behringer kit to have a high noise floor but that was at least a decade ago so things may have changed.

Behringer is generally awful, but check out their Model D. Peter van Hoesen has an excellent review of it. It's almost a crime how good it is, considering how much cheaper it is than the Moog it's copying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWhoakNEoKU

Reply on news.ycombinator.com