Is an MC303 more or less the same as a TB303?

[Microdot]

I can't afford 1200 quid for a tb303,but the mc is only 50 odd quid on ebay.

I mean,can you still tweak up an acid line on the mc303,and is it as good as the tb?


I want to spend some money!! and if anyone in the south half of the uk wants to sell me a tb303 at a reasonable price......:;

sounds nothing like a tb303 unfortunately.

[theledge]

I have now seen 4 people individually buy one of these thinking they were going to make squirly acid lines with them

In fact - that's all the people I've ever known own one.....

I wonder how many extra they sold in total, on account of having a famous number after their name :lol:

[acidsaturation]

I have now seen 4 people individually buy one of these thinking they were going to make squirly acid lines with them

In fact - that's all the people I've ever known own one.....

I wonder how many extra they sold in total, on account of having a famous number after their name :lol:

I think they sold quite a few. They were good for what they did, but yeh the sounds were shite. I think I got mine on the strength that reading reviews, the RM1-x was more complex to use (and more expensive). I stand by them for that, mine taught me the basics of chucking loops together, but I brought other boxes to get sounds from.

In fact, damn them, that's probably why I got so many boxes lol

I used mine as a live sequencer for about 5 years, and it was quite good for doing loop based things live. The fact you can write a pattern and then set up mute variations and pull them back with one button was good.

I will maintain they have one good sound - take the tom sound, play it low so it sounds crusty and almost bit crushed with a crazy arpeggiator pattern, random panning and reverb. That's about it though.

Mine does still come out occasionally if I'm feeling uninspired, 'cos the arpeggiator and groove quantise is quite fun to produce some random synthline pattern. But it does get recorded into the RM1-x or the computer to piss about with.

Ahhh I'm all nostalgic for the crap little thing...

[Microdot]

If you want the sound of the 303 without spending loads of cash, this is the plug in you want:-

http://www.d16.pl/index.php?menu=10



I've got the Audiorealism bassline plug in, which is good, but apparently this thing is alot better.

check out the audio samples on the site to see if it fits the bill...

[TechMouse]

I wonder how many extra they sold in total, on account of having a famous number after their name :lol:

Yeah, lucky they picked that number really.

In fact, if I didn't know better I'd think they chose it on purpose.

[stjohn]

i have an ef303 that i bought last yr as part of a bundle of 2nd hand gear... its meant to be shit tho.. its still in its box

[mattboyslim]

i have an ef303 that i bought last yr as part of a bundle of 2nd hand gear... its meant to be shit tho.. its still in its box

used to have one of those. Its jsut a DJ fx unit really, with a shit mono synth built in