Cyclone TT-303

[Arddhu]

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Thoughts?

Seems odd to go to so much effort to recreate the look but whack a 24db filter in there.

[JJQ]

And no din-sync...

[Hybrid88]

Oh ok, does it come with a time machine to allow one to go back to when acid was new? (jk)

[Ned Bouhalassa]

Groundhog Day?

[Altitude]

Technology Transplant's back! Cant wait for the Roland smack down

[meatballfulton]

TT's in China, they'll adapt

OMG, each one has different presets so you can use presets but still sound original

[Sir Ruff]

Seems odd to go to so much effort to recreate the look but whack a 24db filter in there.

yeah, really not sure what that's about.. I listened to one of the vids through my iTouch speakers, and even there I could hear a distinct difference

Why not just re-do the xoxbox hardware into that form factor?

[Altitude]

Why not just re-do the xoxbox hardware into that form factor?

Already been done, hopefully the case will be available at some point so that can get fleshed out more

Kind of curious about the sequencer. Reminds me of the simplified one on rebirth

[space6oy]

These new TT303s that everyone is geeking about... they're nothing but Technology Transplant x0xb0xes in a new wrapper. His x0xb0xes are total s**t. s**t quality. I spent hours online with a friend trying to debug a PCB error on one i was building for a friend, only to have it die on him a few months later. Avoid!!!

[tekkentool]

Why would anybody buy one of these over a x0xb0x when the filter is even f**k wrong.

Do people actually at all care about the form over the functionality when it comes to a synth that came as ugly as the 303 anyway?

[phesago]

Why would anybody buy one of these over a x0xb0x when the filter is even f**k wrong.

Do people actually at all care about the form over the functionality when it comes to a synth that came as ugly as the 303 anyway?

The voice of reason...

[krushing]

These new TT303s that everyone is geeking about... they're nothing but Technology Transplant x0xb0xes in a new wrapper. His x0xb0xes are total s**t. s**t quality. I spent hours online with a friend trying to debug a PCB error on one i was building for a friend, only to have it die on him a few months later. Avoid!!!

Hmm, someone over at gearslutz just said the opposite - that these are not x0xb0xes, nor built by TT but "designed by a 3rd party in the US". Dunno then. Anyway, happy with my Acidlab Bassline and I certainly don't understand copying the looks like that (or of course I understand *why*, just don't see the point when you could do it better).

[Synthacon]

Just a point on the filter and 24db.... To quote my synth tech, who has designed a few synths and repaired many....

The filter is a -24dB/octave filter built from a diode ladder. It can be thought of as four -6dB/octave stages connected one after another. However, the cascading action isn’t text-book perfect. Unlike the transistor ladder-filter, each successive stage of the diode ladder loads the previous one, producing a rounding-off of the initial filter slope. So the filter tends to a -24dB/octave roll-off but takes longer to get there than other designs. This gives the impression of a brighter-sounding filter than typical four-stage filters. Indeed, close to the cutoff frequency, it does shows a similar roll off to a three-stage, -18dB/octave filter.

Just thought it may interest you.

[Arddhu]

The filter is a -24dB/octave filter built from a diode ladder. It can be thought of as four -6dB/octave stages connected one after another. However, the cascading action isn’t text-book perfect. Unlike the transistor ladder-filter, each successive stage of the diode ladder loads the previous one, producing a rounding-off of the initial filter slope. So the filter tends to a -24dB/octave roll-off but takes longer to get there than other designs. This gives the impression of a brighter-sounding filter than typical four-stage filters. Indeed, close to the cutoff frequency, it does shows a similar roll off to a three-stage, -18dB/octave filter.

Thanks for that.

I thought I remembered reading something along those lines a while back. Makes a bit more sense now.

[Syn303]

Just a point on the filter and 24db.... To quote my synth tech, who has designed a few synths and repaired many....

The filter is a -24dB/octave filter built from a diode ladder. It can be thought of as four -6dB/octave stages connected one after another. However, the cascading action isn’t text-book perfect. Unlike the transistor ladder-filter, each successive stage of the diode ladder loads the previous one, producing a rounding-off of the initial filter slope. So the filter tends to a -24dB/octave roll-off but takes longer to get there than other designs. This gives the impression of a brighter-sounding filter than typical four-stage filters. Indeed, close to the cutoff frequency, it does shows a similar roll off to a three-stage, -18dB/octave filter.

Just thought it may interest you.

Also adding how the power supply affects the 303's sound. The 303 has an inductor based DC/DC converter that affects the behaviour on accents and high resonance settings, this makes it smoother, more liquid sounding, compressed and more dynamic on the 303.