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Not only does this sound excellent, with three great TB-303 synth engines with a colored delay, but it's very musical. The three patterns are locked to a common scale/mode, they autogenerate with compatible and often interleaving polyrhythms, and the "instruments" - bass, lead, drone - spawn with complimentary defaults.

As a longtime synth nerd, it still amazes me to see beautiful tools like this running in a web browser.

Excellent job!

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I agree that it's neat to have software synths that can run in the browser nowadays, but this isn't really a good TB-303 emulation. The accent doesn't have a slow enough attack to create the "wow" effect, which is a fundamental aspect of getting any random acid line to sound properly 303ish. Not to take away from what it is, but for a synth that has been cloned and emulated as often as the TB-303, your description is overselling it a bit.

Come now. Being kind is also a thing, and I think it sounds more than acceptable.

Tell me, oh wise HN caricature, do you think the point was hardware-level emulation of a 40-year-old analogue circuit?

(Hint, it's also got a variable pulse-width oscillator and an LFO, which the TB-303 lacked.)

This is absolutely awesome. The multiple lines really make it unique.

I really never heard the enigmatic scale that much but it sounds wonderful. The only thing I would want to hear are melodic and harmonic minor modes.

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