MC 303

[christian wagner]

Anyone know if this can emulate the tb303? i know it has loads of 90's euro cheese loops, but iv only found a few sounds that qyalify for useable!!!!

[TechMouse]

I doubt it does a very good job.

[AcidTrash]

I've heard it can be done but I've never had anything convincing out of an MC 303

[vadarfone]

you obviously have a computer right? if you have a pc, get AudioRealism's 303 clone. It can sound filthy with a load of ****ing (so just like the original then.)

[MARKEG]

i'm with wormjar ;) mc303 is pants!

[TechMouse]

i'm with wormjar

Phrases you thought you would never see on this forum..... #427

[rhythmtech]

actually... if you select one of the acid presets and throw it through a distortion pedal you get a similiar sound... now i'm not saying its nice (infact its f**king horrible), but its the same idea..

disclaimer: rhythmtech has never ever ever owned an mc303... i promise. no really. alright then, i was young.

[rounser]

I'm no expert, but...isn't acid a synergy thing? I mean, 303's filters are 3 pole, and (from what I've heard <- could well be completely wrong) not excellent, but they do self-oscillate -> it's sound is only part of the story, seemingly. Sequencer, again, not excellent, sadistic even, but very importantly to the acid sound it leads to a certain style of programming. Only about 4 knobs to tweak live - alright, not much options on enveloping, but just enough to encourage creative tweaking <- again, potentially a very important detail.

Add it all together and you get the synergy which led to the creation of acid - part sound, part convenience, part restriction. Perhaps people overemphasise the sound bit's importance a tad too much, when it's really the tweakery and sequencing which matter most. Maybe acid produced by a 2, 4 or 6 pole filter sounds better, but isn't recognised as such because those synths have too many pots to tweak, too many waveforms, a keyboard, and no sadistic step sequencer.

Blasphemy, I know...

[RDR]

i use a load of screws in a jar pitched down and distorted...

just like an mc303...

[Basil Rush]

Waldrof Pulse with sync'd oscillators increase the pitch of one oscilator leave the filter wide open with 0 resonance makes a wicked acid sound - sounds nothing like a 303. Sounds like something BT would have used on an album rather than the liberators on a piece of vinyl mind you...but it's a good noise!

Must find the powersupply for the Pulse ... mmm .... still haven't managed to recreate that sound with a soft synth.

[alsynthe]

u can get powers upplies from argos for a fiver, they have about 8 different connectors and 8 different voltages

[Electrictribe]

yeah for acid the mc-303 is useless. although mc-303's do have their uses, we use ours as a sequencer/trigger for our live set.

[Basil Rush]

yeah for acid the mc-303 is useless. although mc-303's do have their uses, we use ours as a sequencer/trigger for our live set.

I sampled all the drums off one, well all the drums I liked anyway, ages ago and still use some of them today...

[christian wagner]

Ok, so its not that great, but after fiddling with it a bit, iv come up with some useable bits!!!

I got the audiorealism bassline, but the standard 303 gets borin after a while, Albino 2 can creats some dirt with long periods of effort!! belive it or not.

[Electrictribe]

but the standard 303 gets borin after a while,.

;)

[TechMouse]

You can get good sounds out of anything.

If you can't, then you're not trying hard enough.

[vadarfone]

Haha, really? But if you are trying to emulate something which already exists, then obviously there will be good and bad emulations right. No doubt the MC303 has its moments, but I am sure much better sounds can be made of the same ilk elsewhere

[neilried]

You can with the MC303, alright they may not be the best but play with running midi from your keyboard into an arpegiator in Cubase/Logic etc then back out into the 303 then back into your desk or whatever, cant rememebr then name of the arpegiator/plugin built into cubase (SX2) but its fully programmable and if you find the right sample on the box from the outset you can have a lot of fun...

[vadarfone]

fair enough, but as was said earlier... you can just get a plugin that sounds, well, better...

[FILTERZ]

but the standard 303 gets borin after a while,.

;)

agreed , im bored to death of mine

but love to use it live