Topic: TB303 - SAW or SQUARE?

A hard choice, but I choose SQUARE smile


Whats your flavor?

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really hard to pick one...both are so convincing !

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square! with a lot of envelope modulation and zero resonance!

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square wave all the way.  i think roland's do the best square waves out of all synths.. sh-101, tb-303, jp-4, the list goes on.. i love that hollow utterly electronic sound. as a side note, anyone know which one does that classic Fingers square bass?  you can also hear it on afx's laricheard track among others

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Yeah always Square, Saw is for psytrance goa whitewankeyboy acidtechno

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i use both, the square for the softer stuff, but also the saw a lot for those aehm.. sawing basslines. a saw distorts way better, too.
and i agree with forax, though the crumar bit 01 also does a very super hollow square bass..

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fantomas, the time is running out.

karl, thats huge smile

Forax, yeah the liquidy bass rumbles sounds so nice. In Roland We Trust

Smackos, i think loads of black producers have used SAW in chicago acid tracks. or am i wrong

rude, do you use them both in a single track? and perhaps the same note pattern?

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saw for the bass and square for the bass lead in case of using 2 of those nice little squeaky duckies in one track.

9 (edited by Squadra Smackos 2008-08-12 10:41:05)

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ratsnake wrote:

Smackos, i think loads of black producers have used SAW in chicago acid tracks. or am i wrong

I didn't mean to talk about the racial use of the Saw, it was just to describe those idiotic goa trance dumbfucks.

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Also with the software 303 (if that counts) I usually choose square.

You were just a damn sequencer
Moving to the beat
Living with a synthesizer
Cold as a repeat

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you cant talk about waveforms without looking at it from a racial perspective.

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both have their sense in  tracks...it depends what you are lookin' for...just like Rude said

13 (edited by teknob 2008-08-12 18:43:18)

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i like to play equal opportunity in the studio, and so I like to give the SAW a chance every once and again.
However lack of qualifications and capability usually means it gets kicked out after a few minutes.

SQUARE gets it's contract renewed every year.

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Forax wrote:

...anyone know which one does that classic Fingers square bass?

Bassline on "Can u feel it" was courtesy of the arp on a Juno-6, I think.

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no room for sitting on the fence in this topic, fantomas

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90%sqare, 10%saw

love on dj pierres "box energy" the moment he switchs from sqaure to saw..

Every Friday Night We Dress In Black

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ok...i saw a square first smile

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equaliser wrote:
Forax wrote:

...anyone know which one does that classic Fingers square bass?

Bassline on "Can u feel it" was courtesy of the arp on a Juno-6, I think.

Larry saysit was a Juno-2.

Do it your way, because everyone else is just weird.

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karl wrote:

you cant talk about waveforms without looking at it from a racial perspective.

ha. best quote in a while

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Communicator wrote:
equaliser wrote:
Forax wrote:

...anyone know which one does that classic Fingers square bass?

Bassline on "Can u feel it" was courtesy of the arp on a Juno-6, I think.

Larry saysit was a Juno-2.

I got a book where he sais its the Juno 6 (and jupiter 6 for strings)
One thing is sure its a juno 10000%, the sound is just the square wave of the Juno with everything else off...a Juno 2 could also do it probably but Can You feel It is from 1986 I think and the Juno 2 didn't exist yet...or was released that year or something.

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T.E.L. wrote:
karl wrote:

you cant talk about waveforms without looking at it from a racial perspective.

ha. best quote in a while

one of the best quotes ever

Square here too, although not on an real TB but on MAM, and the rest of the synths

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i never used them together, but in some of my older bunker acid tracks i used to switch from one to the other. tracks like ''angst bleibt'' and ''die starke der vernichtende schlage'' all use the square..

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I can't even remember which I mostly used. But it's the one that sounds more acid house to me.

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"Square waves for square mind" <--- i had to post this. it made mt smile for a while ;D

Sander = sendex ???

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Actually a saw overdriven is close to a square.

Offtopic: A 303 needs a groove for me . And still wonder how the 303 of problems d'amour was sequenced.

ppl may think i act like a pig, but in the end i look cute !