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Arashi · Post by **Arashi** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 3:58 am

BONES wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2020 2:13 am How so? We see all kinds of synths being used to make that useless acid sound, the 303 was just the one someone happened to use the first time anybody noticed.

For those who are into the sound, using any other synth to make "acid" comes off like this…

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…and even most of the emulations and clones aren't totally convincing. It may have failed spectacularly at achieving its intended purpose, but it's one of the greatest accidents in history.

grandmasterbird · Post by **grandmasterbird** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 5:22 am

For anyone who is interested, a factual account of the history of the 303 and how this particular machine kick started a revolution. No distortion pedals anywhere. Not until later on anyway!

https://www.attackmagazine.com/techniqu ... nd-tb-303/

AnX · Post by **AnX** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 5:26 am

grandmasterbird wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2020 5:22 am For anyone who is interested, a factual account of the history of the 303 and how this particular machine kick started a revolution. No distortion pedals anywhere. Not until later on anyway!

https://www.attackmagazine.com/techniqu ... nd-tb-303/

no mention of reverb, delay or eq, but im pretty sure they were used too

traxxorx · Post by **traxxorx** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 6:03 am

that useless acid sound? that one sound that makes you see into your own soul and from looking into that tiny point in space and time realizing you are seeing all of reality from it's beginning to it's end? useless?

grandmasterbird · Post by **grandmasterbird** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 6:17 am

AnX wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2020 5:26 am
grandmasterbird wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2020 5:22 am For anyone who is interested, a factual account of the history of the 303 and how this particular machine kick started a revolution. No distortion pedals anywhere. Not until later on anyway!

https://www.attackmagazine.com/techniqu ... nd-tb-303/
no mention of reverb, delay or eq, but im pretty sure they were used too

yes very true!

It was just in reference to whacking anything through a pedal to get the sound. You can make most filters resonate to do acid, but in my opinion, with a 303, it's the interplay between the sequencer programming and the realtime tweaking that gives the sound. It's the movement that it creates.

Arashi · Post by **Arashi** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 6:19 am

AnX wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2020 5:26 am
grandmasterbird wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2020 5:22 am For anyone who is interested, a factual account of the history of the 303 and how this particular machine kick started a revolution. No distortion pedals anywhere. Not until later on anyway!

https://www.attackmagazine.com/techniqu ... nd-tb-303/
no mention of reverb, delay or eq, but im pretty sure they were used too

Go back and listen to early acid house. Nobody was running the 303 through distortion until years later.

SneakyBeats · Post by **SneakyBeats** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 6:58 am

Alien303 is da best 303 evahhhhh

AnX · Post by **AnX** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 7:02 am

Arashi wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2020 6:19 am
AnX wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2020 5:26 am
grandmasterbird wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2020 5:22 am For anyone who is interested, a factual account of the history of the 303 and how this particular machine kick started a revolution. No distortion pedals anywhere. Not until later on anyway!

https://www.attackmagazine.com/techniqu ... nd-tb-303/
no mention of reverb, delay or eq, but im pretty sure they were used too
Go back and listen to early acid house. Nobody was running the 303 through distortion until years later.

i dont need to go back, I was there. Loads of ppl were putting them thru guitar pedals

AnX · Post by **AnX** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 7:05 am

anyway, this is totally OT...

grandmasterbird · Post by **grandmasterbird** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 7:09 am

V-station- great synth. In fact all novation synths are great. Can't think of a bad one tbh

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 10:05 am

I played around with the V-Station a bit yesterday, inspired by this thread.

Still sounds nice to me. If I wanted to do Trance music which sounds like 1998, I would use V-Station only.

It really has that old school VA character. Great.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Sat Jul 25, 2020 4:07 pm

I find anything else but a 303 downright lame for... well... 303 sounds.

Chamar · Post by **Chamar** » Sat Jul 25, 2020 4:16 pm

chk071 wrote: Sat Jul 25, 2020 4:07 pm I find anything else but a 303 downright lame for... well... 303 sounds.

V-Station Acid rulezzz!

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvgzmCi7ZQD33y0ibG0 ... c?e=svWXTh

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Sat Jul 25, 2020 4:21 pm

Well... as I said.

(Nothing against your sound. It's just that a 303 is a 303. Nothing really sounds like it.)

grandmasterbird · Post by **grandmasterbird** » Sat Jul 25, 2020 4:54 pm

chk071 wrote: Sat Jul 25, 2020 4:21 pm Well... as I said.

(Nothing against your sound. It's just that a 303 is a 303. Nothing really sounds like it.)

Have you tried ABL3? I had the hardware Roland Tb3 (the black &green unit) and I was more than happy to ditch it for the ABL3. Well worth checking

So, anyone still using Novation V-Station?