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TB-303 Give-Aways from Propellerheads and d-lusion

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the no-school-like-the-old-school dept.

slashflood writes "Good news for those of you who are into music synthesizers: Propellerheads has opened its Rebirth Museum and gives away the 'revolutionary' software simulation of the classic Roland TB-303. Interestingly, that happened just a day after the small German company d-lusion released another 'legendary' TB-303 simulator called Rubberduck as a free give-away."

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  1. Greatest user feedback comments ever! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Wish more companies were brave enough to post user comments like these:

    User feedback was overwhelming, ranging from "the door-bending bass response makes rebirths 303 section sound like a touch tone device" to "fucking brilliant" and the most famous quote which says it all: "it is like fucking a hot hollywood bitch for the price of a corner crack slut".
    1. Re:Greatest user feedback comments ever! by drx · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I don't know ... back in the 90s shareware days i thought this was completely normal.

      Rubberduck was freaky underground software, i used it from versions on that looked like Windows3.1. It was the software to produce the cheapest and best sounding bass; as a bedroom producer you could finally laugh about the people that rent studios or spend huge money on gear and think that is half of the music already done. It started just then.

      Today even GNU stuff looks polished. I think this is boring. I want announcements like "KDE new release with bomb shit doorbending menus comin atcha like cleopatra" or "new version of gnumeric -- coded on bad LSD" or whatever ... but nowadays it is all about konquering the (business) desktop and adapting the same makes-me-yawn language as corporations. Takes some fun out of computing.

  2. Re:WOOOOOOHOOO! Music stuff on /.! by DyslexicLegume · · Score: 5, Informative

    Semi-Offtopic, but there's a nice alternative to Fruity Loops for Linux users...still in Beta, but:
    http://lmms.sourceforge.net/

    It's pretty good.

    Anyways, I'll be sure to pick this one up.

  3. Propellerhead did not remove copy protection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Propellerhead made it free without having the sense to remove the copy protection. That's why you have to download a huge 500MB ISO instead of a 16MB application. The music gear website MusicThing has all the info on this.

  4. ReBirth is awesome... Enjoy! by dzfoo · · Score: 5, Informative

    I bought ReBirth-338 a few years ago (1998 or 1999, I think) and was very impressed by it. It not only has a TB-303 emulator, it has two of them! Along with a TR-808 (w00t!) and a TR-909 (woo-hoo!!!) beat-boxes emulators, all in there.

    It also has a simple, yet effective, sequencer for all the synthesizers, a few effects (distortion, delay, compression), and a nice Pattern Controlled Filter. In short, everything you need for swooping, hypnotic, techno tracks, or classic Freestyle Electro!

    The first time I used it I was overwhelmed by the memories of DJ'ing back in the 80s.

    Propellerheads, thanx for the memory trip, and the very cool software!!

              -dZ.

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  5. Re:Only The REAL Thing Counts... by Andy_R · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Speaking as a TB-303 owner, who spent quite a while a/b testing ReBirth, it does come remarkably close.

    I've been fooled from time to time, and I've had exactly that sort of 'you can tell it's real' comment from people who know I own the real thing, about tracks I've used purely ReBirth on.

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