Trend price : 350€
A clone of the famous analog bassliner Roland Tb303 with a (quite) 1:1 surprising appearance.
Overview
BASS LINER BASS LINER main panel features 2 rotary selectors, 24 push buttons and 8 knobs potentiometers. Fun, there are 13 different LED colors.
terminal connectors:
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main signal out
- CV tension out 1V/oct
- Gate signal out
- 8 DIN for Midi IN/OUT (special cable included)
- audio input MIX IN
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headphones out
- waveform selector (square / saw)
Voice
The internal CPU manages 1 voices with 2 different waveforms: saw and square with autotune calibration procedure.
Generated sound can be tweaked using the upper knobs functions:
- Tuning: changes the VCO oscillator pitch (range: +/-700 cents)
- Cutoff freq: amount of filtered VCF
- Resonance: amount of VCF resonance
- Env MOd: sets the amount of signal from the EG that reaches the VCF cutoff
- Decay: sets the decay time of the Envelope
- Accent: sets the amount of the EG that reaches the VCF resonance.
Envelope
generator is based on IC BA6110 VCA chip (not BA6612 which are getting hard to find also previously implemented on x0xb0x project) and controls decay and accent.
Filter
transistor filter VCF at 4 poles.
Sequencer
TT303 has many new enhancements compared to original silver box introducing the OS INSTADJ (now V2). TT030 also includes the not-so-intuitive internal sequencer with some modification: notes are entered with the mini-keyboard, then each note can be set with length, portamento, slide and octave transpose (+/-1) or shifted with pattern rotation new function.
If after decades of TB you're tired to manually program the TT, then random some patterns with the "Bot generation" that features 7 different algorithms generator (+mutator variation) or use the intelligent arpeggiator (4 modes: up, down, up-down and random).
MIDI notes can be directly played with external keyboard/sequencer, velocity above 112 with trigger the Accent twang. All parameters are mapped to Midi control change.
Sync
the bass bot is automatically synched to external Midi clock, but won't work with traditional DIN SYNC unless with a third-part clock converter.
Memory
- 7 songs
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224 RAM patterns
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224 ROM patterns
No battery inside, non-volatile memory technology inside; data and patterns can be saved to Midi exclusive systems.
Audio demo:
Video Clip:
Review
OK: -looks like a TB!!-sounds good-price
NOT : - - another TB clone- a bit plastic cheap compared to tb303, flimsy pots
"Like it especially for the design. Sound is nice with new Midi, intelligent random phrases generator and more. I am still wondering why Roland did not sued the Cyclone company for the copyright / patents plagiarism :)"
Text , review, special demos copyright polynominal.com / Eric Pochesci