Roland TB-303 Bass Line, Japan 1981 - 1984
Roland TB-303 - monophonic analog synthesizer created by Roland in 1981.
Initially, it was supposed to synthesize a suitable bass line (bass guitar), as an addition to the company's earlier product - the TR-606 drum machine. However, this device (TB-303), by chance, has become a cult object for all supporters of electronic and club music and is sometimes referred to as the electric guitar of the 21st century.
At the end of the 1980s, thanks to the unique sound of TB-303, the so-called acid house and it initiated a revolution in not only electronic music.
The sounds coming from the machine, thanks to the sequences arranged and the appropriate transition functions, can have a color of cold, warm, joyful, soft, pulsating, biting, smooth. The so-called alien-soundy - sounds that cannot be created in any other way.
The mixture of these sounds creates a unique atmosphere of many songs, from simple breakbeats, through acid techno, to the complicated psychedelic sounds of Goa Trance, Psychedelic Trance, Neurofunk and Dubstep.
The development of technology caused many mutations of this device, currently in the form of computer programs, starting with ReBirth RB-338 and ending with Phoscyon. It should be mentioned, however, that none of these clones (software or hardware) is able to reproduce 100% of all the sonic nuances of the original.
