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... :rambo:

[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,.


:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: ;)

[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,.


:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: ;)



agreed , im bored to death of mine

but love to use it live

[FILTERZ]

an mc 303 is just a load of samples

its pants

if you want cheap hardware , try a freebass 303 clone (pretty cheap).

[FILTERZ]

You can get good sounds out of anything.

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


thats just not true

maybe with tons of processing you can

if you can get a good sound out of a deep bass nine without any processing i will eat my own ears .

[TechMouse]

if you can get a good sound out of a deep bass nine without any processing i will eat my own ears .
Not sure what that is.

But am I allowed to circuit bend it?

[FILTERZ]

if you can get a good sound out of a deep bass nine without any processing i will eat my own ears .
Not sure what that is.

But am I allowed to circuit bend it?



Well you would need 2 to have half a chance

[TechMouse]

If I have 4 would I get a whole chance?

[tocsin]

Soundwise, the MC-303 really offers you jack. It's basically a sampler that can't have sounds added to it. For 303 sounds, go with any software suite. The only good use for the MC-303 I found is for sequencing in a live environment. Any sounds can be found on the net if you look around. In fact, in the new version of Sonar, there is a softsynth made by Roland that seems to have the same sounds as the MC-303.

[JohnnySideways]

i still use it in my livesets...but thro distortion always...you'l never get a 303 clone...but it makes ya sound different to every other acid producer if you wang it thro the right effect5s

[nova]

i always thout the sequencer onit sounded abit funny like when dropping in other parts. seems ta make a stumbley noise then kick in. sounded the same on 2 different mc303 that ive heard