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beetjunkeeee
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i cant realy find too much about the tb303. but i hears that its like the novation. can anyone clarify mo betta ? ? ? like spec wise and features, memory...stuff like that. thanks
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Array
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The Novation Bass Station is nothing at all like a TB-303. If anything, the Bass Station sounds like a cheap Moog knockoff...in fact, it has 12db per octave and 24db per octave cutoff slopes on the filter. The TB-303, on the other hand, has an 18db per octave diode ladder filter. Totaly differant sounds. If you want a good tb-303 emulation, take a look at this:
http://www.future-retro.com/REVOLUTION.html
http://www.future-retro.com/REVOLUTION.html
kadooka
Cutoff productions©
check this out for info on the 303
www.vintagesynth.com/index2.html
www.vintagesynth.com/index2.html
THM
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Absolutely correct.Array said:
I ever bought a 2nd hand BassStation (back in 1995 or 1996) for its so-called TB-303 sound and analog fatness. What a waste of money !! So thin and not at all TB-303 like. I sold it as fast as I could and I bought me a real TB. With not any regret...
Stay off any Novation products. Even my Supernova II (still the flagship of Novation) is far too thin for me - I'm selling it right now...
krushing
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The BassStation has it's moments though - if you happen to like the sound (it does suite some things) and own old analog synths, the BS (a suitable abbreviation, some might say 
) doubles as a MIDI/CV converter.
) doubles as a MIDI/CV converter.
THM
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Only the rack version does.
2nice
Active member
ok, the bass station is actually pretty dope in my opinion. here is my take on its strengths and weaknesses:
weaknesses - leads. you don't want to do leads on a bass station. you really don't want to do anything with the bass station that has to do with the mid to higher frequencies.
strengths - bass, filtered down. some people like to have their basses contain some of the overtones, but on a bass station it doesn't sound that great. however, work in the low frequencies, let the filter cut down the wave to a low enough frequency and boost the resonance, and you get a reeeeally fat sound. that is the sweet spot, that is where the synth really sings to you.
just look at the bass sounds that these producers use it for: the rza (wu tang), radiohead, massive attack, salaam remi (new nas album), havoc (mobb deep). in the cases of radiohead and massive attack and salaam remi, they use many other bass sounds, but you can pick out where they are using the bass station if you are familiar with its sound. anyways, with those producers, those are some fat bass sounds.
if you want to hear the bass station's sweet spot that i am talking about, check the link in my signature that takes you to my soundclick page (click the "music" link on that page), listen to "could die" and "col. mustard", which i used the bass station on. "col. mustard" actually doesnt use a straight up bass station but rather the playing of a bass station sample that i recorded from my bass station into my eps-16+ sampler. unfortunately i haven't posted the majority of my tracks that use the bass station (most of my tracks do), all the other tracks on that soundclick page use bass from the cheesy reason subtractor (im goin to have to go back and replace that with some bass station).
weaknesses - leads. you don't want to do leads on a bass station. you really don't want to do anything with the bass station that has to do with the mid to higher frequencies.
strengths - bass, filtered down. some people like to have their basses contain some of the overtones, but on a bass station it doesn't sound that great. however, work in the low frequencies, let the filter cut down the wave to a low enough frequency and boost the resonance, and you get a reeeeally fat sound. that is the sweet spot, that is where the synth really sings to you.
just look at the bass sounds that these producers use it for: the rza (wu tang), radiohead, massive attack, salaam remi (new nas album), havoc (mobb deep). in the cases of radiohead and massive attack and salaam remi, they use many other bass sounds, but you can pick out where they are using the bass station if you are familiar with its sound. anyways, with those producers, those are some fat bass sounds.
if you want to hear the bass station's sweet spot that i am talking about, check the link in my signature that takes you to my soundclick page (click the "music" link on that page), listen to "could die" and "col. mustard", which i used the bass station on. "col. mustard" actually doesnt use a straight up bass station but rather the playing of a bass station sample that i recorded from my bass station into my eps-16+ sampler. unfortunately i haven't posted the majority of my tracks that use the bass station (most of my tracks do), all the other tracks on that soundclick page use bass from the cheesy reason subtractor (im goin to have to go back and replace that with some bass station).
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bhardman
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Neither--get a KORG MICROKORG!
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Array
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bhardman said:
Or an apricot.
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cubbyhouse
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I have the hardware TB and the software Novation Bass-station.
If the software version gives a decent replica of the hardware, GO FOR THE TB! That softsynth is one of the worst ones I’ve ever had the “pleasure” of owning!
The TB is very limited to that acid (overused in many eyes/ears) sound style, but the hardware original box is the real thing and it sounds awesome when you tweak it.
If the software version gives a decent replica of the hardware, GO FOR THE TB! That softsynth is one of the worst ones I’ve ever had the “pleasure” of owning!
The TB is very limited to that acid (overused in many eyes/ears) sound style, but the hardware original box is the real thing and it sounds awesome when you tweak it.
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cubbyhouse
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THM said:
1995! Man, you’ve been doing this for a long time now!
