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Roland TB3 Aira

 

 

 

Roland TB-3

info Country: Japan
Weight: 0,8 Kg
Dimensions: n/a
audio demo trend price : 150€
manual demo video comments

Roland TB-3
Touch Bassline (2014)

 

Roland revisited the famous analog bassliner Tb-303 from 1981 with modern options and new features.

Tb3 is part of AIRA project which is aimed to produce high-quality digital products at budget price.

touch bassline
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info DESKTOP MODULE Main panel features a 7 segments display, 8 push buttons, 16 step minipads, an encoder, 5 knobs and a touchpad (not multitouch).

Rear panel terminal connectors:
- Midi interface
- headphones
- main out
- USB interface.

ac Power supply external PSU 500 mA.




edit VOICE digital unit based on the analog modeling ACB Analog Circuit Behavior a process that recreates nuances and the behavior of traditional transistor circuits.
Tb-3 generates a monophonic voice and 4 kind of digital oscillators models: saw and square (modeled on tb303), leads, FX and bass.



saw

 


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PERFORMANCE the pressure-sensitive touch pad controls X-Y axis control some real-time functions: notes entry, cutoff, decay, gain, scatter, pitch and LFO amount.



performance


edit FILTER
is a digital emulation of the -24dB/oct resonant diode filter.


18 db filter
18 db filter




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LFO some patches have preset modulations but these cannot be edited.


tr3 sequencer





edit SEQUENCER patterns can be recorder in 2 manners:
- realtime notes entered with touchpad. Sequence transpose, chain patterns, random notes, automatic variations, copy and delete.
- step mode: traditional modes ncludes original accent, glide, tie and octave shift. It is possible to choose the step numbers (1-32) and 16th or 8th Triplet notes length or apply a shuffle swinged mode.


 




edit SYNC
internal clock frequency (30-300 BPM) or external digital clock set by Midi or USB, note that when plugged in a computer it is directly Midi controlled, digitally recorded and tempo-synched to other Aira devices


 



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EFFECTS some interesting effects with very limited edit: reverb, delay, distortion and phaser.
SCATTER mangles your sequences with real-time synced effects fo remix or glitch music purpose, including:slicing, reverce, gating and random seed.


scatter tb3



 

edit MEMORY:
- 134 preset patches
- 64 user patterns (each 32 steps).

tb303 vs tb3

 

 

edit TB-3 TIPS and COMBOS:

- TUNING: hold ENV MOD and change values using the pad
- NUMBER OF STEPS: hold STEP rec and use data knob
- TRANSPOSE: hold KEYBOARD and press the note root
- RANDOM PATTERN: hold PATTERN SELECT then SCATTER
- VARIATION RANDOM: hold KEYBOARD SELECT then SCATTER
- SELECT MIDI CHANNEL: switch on holding SCATTER, change 1-16 or OMNI.




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- Acidcode ML303 VIDEO
- Analogue Solutions TB-X TB-303 VIDEO
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- Future Retro Revolution
- Future Retro 777 VIDEO
- Acidlab Bassline VIDEO
- Syntecno TeeBee VIDEO
- Doepfer MS-404 VIDEO
- Analogue Solutions Trans-Bass-Xpress VIDEO
- Deep bass Nine VIDEO
- Oakley TM3030 VIDEO
- MAM MB33 VIDEO


 

effet VST PLUGIN / SAMPLED VERSION virtual TB softwares and samples:

  name price
free 303 vst

- Venom VB-303
- Bitsonic TB-303

Free
VST PLUGINs
free kontakt samples

-Polynominal | 5 octaves samples note by note!

-Polynominal | 18 first patterns sampled from Tb3

Free kontakt sample SET. Gift 4 you.

free donation
demo

commercial vst

- D16 Group Phoscyon
- AudioRealism BassLine3

commercial
VST PLUGINs


 

demo AUDIO DEMO

demo jam with drum TR-808
demo another jam with 808
demo third jam with 808
demo last jam with 808
demo standard sequence
demo scatter
demo scatter ringmodulator
demo scatter sequence I
demo scatter sequence II
demo 1scatter sequence III
demo scatter sequencer IV
demo scatter sequence V

 



video YOUTUBE VIDEO CLIP SELECTION

Roland AIRA TB3 Roland TB-3 (AIRA TB3) roland TR8 & TB3
AIRA TB3 (AIRA TB3) roland TR8 & TB3

 

tb 3 aira



 




manual
ROLAND TB-3 MANUAL

 

 

 

TB3
factory reset

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1. While holding down the [REALTIME REC] button, turn on the power.
The display indicates “rSt” and the [ ] button blinks.
If you decide to cancel the factory reset, turn off the power.
2. Press the [ ] button to execute the factory reset.
3. When the display indicates “CNP,” turn the TB-3’s power off, then on again.

 

 

 

 

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TB-3 Version 1.1 update are free at the ROLAND website. Some new features are:
- better USB data backup
- better tuning handling
- scatter can be controller by MIdi CC#
- new pattern transpose functions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

brochure tb3
video original brochure

 


 

 

tb3 touchpad aira project rear panel


manual

-Tb related
-price

manual

-sound edit limited
- lacks 303 smoothness
-combo keys

comment

REVIEW "Another tb clones- I like the new touchpad idea- at least it is something new!but.. after dozens of analog clones? "

 
"we meticulously analyzed the circuitry of the original TB-303 piece by piece, right down to the individual circuit behavior." -Roland

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Roland tb3 2 out of 5 based on 4 ratings. price €300