should I keep my rave-o-lution

[chk071]

Nevermind

[vurt]

Not that Im invested in this even slightly, unlike zerocrossing who clearly has a chip on their shoulder.

No chip, just a bit confused as to why someone would pay a lot for a ROM based drum machine with a single VA voice from 1996 when you could get a Roland SH-4d Desktop Synthesizer Module for the same money or less. The price obviously seems to be driven by nostalgia and I don't suffer from that affliction. Vintage analogs are a bit of a different deal, because component manufacturing has changed so much since those instruments were made, but on an all digital machine? Nope. That grape juice doesn't ever turn into wine, IMO.

for a while you couldnt give someone a 303.
then a couple of tracks got released with basic synth abuse, and people saw them in a new light.
maybe someone has done something similar with this device?

lifes weird sometimes, go with it.

[vurt]

now i have "its puts the rave lotion in the rave basket or it gets the rave hose" going around in my head. thanks.

[cryophonik]

then a couple of tracks got released with basic synth abuse, and people saw them in a new light.
maybe someone has done something similar with this device?

None that I'm aware of. I think @zerocrossing nailed it - people are probably just banking on vintage nostalgia to get some clueless people to pay ridiculous prices for this thing. It's old and discontinued, so it must be good, right?

[whyterabbyt]

then a couple of tracks got released with basic synth abuse, and people saw them in a new light.
maybe someone has done something similar with this device?

None that I'm aware of. I think @zerocrossing nailed it - people are probably just banking on vintage nostalgia to get some clueless people to pay ridiculous prices for this thing. It's old and discontinued, so it must be good, right?

just wait for the 'relic' 303s from Uli...

[CANE CREEK]

No chip, just a bit confused as to why someone would pay a lot for a ROM based drum machine with a single VA voice from 1996 when you could get a Roland SH-4d Desktop Synthesizer Module for the same money

Nothing to get confused about really some people just love grooveboxes, own several and want to add 309 to the collection.

[mztk]

didn't regret selling mine. got back what i paid for it 2nd hand and after adding extensions.
that worked out around 450eu at the time (2015?)

[CANE CREEK]

I remember buying mine circa 96/97 from Turnkey in London, I seen the add in sound-on-sound magazine and sent them a cheque, pretty sure they were £649 band new back then.

I've got lots of elektron boxes and still have my 309, love it.

[GaryG]

for a while you couldnt give someone a 303.

I remember the ads around '86 for Turnkey (or Soho Soundhouse?) where they were clearing 303s (and I think 606s) for £39...

[kritikon]

Got my 303 + 606 combo for 100 quid in (I think?) '89. Instant impression of the 606 was sell this crappy toy. And I still think they're crappy toys, despite them being mysteriously remade and even more mysteriously bought by people with ears that don't work properly .
I kept the 303 for a couple of years and sold it for a massive profit of a tenner. Don't regret it though, as I fkn hated using that awful sequencer. Bought a TD3 last year for similar price and mysteriously I'm as stupid as I ever was, cos despite it sounds great, I still fkn hate that awful sequencer. I doubt I can make a tenner profit this time around though.

At least Behringer gave it a proper name though...not Trancealiser Threetythree or some other teletubby name.

[_leras]

Any views appreciated.

Make a track or two with it and see how you get on.

This is the only way to see if you have any use for it. By using it.

[whyterabbyt]

if you cant get decent sounds out of a synth, any synth, then you clearly dont own enough effects pedals.