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Bassline Baseline, Roland TB-303 Video Essay by Nate Harrison:
Watch it (and download) here: http://www.archive.org/details/NateHarr … eBaseline/
Nate's homepage: http://nkhstudio.com/index.html

The Shape of Things That Hum:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid … &hl=en
Other gear in the series: http://www.tribemagazine.com/board/show … eferrerid=

BTW For shits and giggles - Does anyone know of any works that use the 303 "the right way", as intended by Roland?
(Besides 'Let Me Go' by Heaven 17.)

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Re: Documentary Works About The Roland TB-303

loads veery slow, but thanks for the links!

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Maybe Google loads it quicker? Here it is on Google.

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way better, thanks again

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well, on the historic rumor mill, the classic 'just an illusion'- imagination, bassline- got to say i'm not sure, but has been alluded too.

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its amazing people dont get tired of it

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Well there is a lot of "real" 303 basslines.. Strangely the first thing coming to mind is Korzynski's soundtrack for Podroze Pana Kleksa. smile

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8 Reply by Squadra Smackos (edited by Squadra Smackos 2009-03-30 22:40:29)

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----eh

i thought it would be that doc with the computer program voice-over

edit 2:

ow its in that list, that nhk studio talkover is a computer voice program right?

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Man, if I had a penny for every time I heard what was Imagination's bassline for 'Just An Illusion' made out of, I'll be George Soros. Last time I read through some forums (KVR, I believe), it was supposed to be a Minimoog passed through some heavy Dimension D processing...can someone sort this out once and for all, as this is slowly becoming the Holy Grail of bassline sounds for me!

I'm sure I can hear an octaver in there somewhere.

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to me that bassline always sounded more digital.. more dx-7 than tb303.

first thing that comes to my mind that is 303-ish from those days is alexander robotnick's problems d

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Yeah there is too much going on in each different note of that baseline and the sound is too full for a TB303. There is some chorus over it, or a slight detune. You could easily pull that baseline off on a DX7IID, maybe it was one of those super DX racks with 8 units in it, the TX816 or something. It also sounds like its played live or something almost not sequenced.

There is this video on youtube were they play it on a Korg Trident.

edit: all their other songs almost use the same baselinesound
(listen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNQpmvo2 … re=related...it could be ofcourse also that they sequenced another synth with the TB303 cv/gate out...but i dunno it sounds too loose for that)

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12 Reply by english electric (edited by english electric 2009-03-30 23:27:31)

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Woody Aki wrote:

Man, if I had a penny for every time I heard what was Imagination's bassline for 'Just An Illusion' made out of, I'll be George Soros. Last time I read through some forums (KVR, I believe), it was supposed to be a Minimoog passed through some heavy Dimension D processing...can someone sort this out once and for all, as this is slowly becoming the Holy Grail of bassline sounds for me!

I'm sure I can hear an octaver in there somewhere.

Yeah, , I personally couldn't give a moon unit whether  'tis or 'tisn't. 'Tis jus' pop music/ music, (and me & my people used to regurgitate this myth at any given moment), most of popular song is smoke and mirrors at the best of times.

It was probably a Kawai K1r, then.

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deutschmark wrote:

Well there is a lot of "real" 303 basslines.. Strangely the first thing coming to mind is Korzynski's soundtrack for Podroze Pana Kleksa. smile

WOW, major flashback to childhood yikes I had completely forgotten about that movie. just rembember fragments of it, like when he magnetizes his beard and uses it as a compass. And something about huge macaroni being used as projectiles...

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PAN KLEKS soundtrack is great....TB-303 & TR-606 action....with electric guitarzzz...huahhaa...they have used it the way it has been made for...

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In the words of Churchill the insurance bulldog: "OH NO!" - Nate Harrison is the narrator.

This bloke makes Stephen Hawking sound like Bobcat Goldthwait from Police Academy. Anyone who's seen the Can I Get An Amen? documentary knows what I'm on about...

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Haha. Yeah. Wonder why he's so dry. Maybe someone here can take the narration and vocode it with a 303 drone? Then it'd be acid speech.

Gonna have to check out that movie Interfunk, the plot sounds cool.

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