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Building a TB-303 from Scratch

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Re: Building a TB-303 from Scratch

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jeskola Buzz has a pretty interesting back story: >The development of the core program, buzz.exe, was halted on October 5, 2000, when the developer lost the source code to the program. It was announced in June 2008 that development would begin again, eventually regaining much of the functionality.

Sounds like a real bad day.

Yeah it was pretty spectacular. The author was a bit paranoid, had never shared his sources with anyone or backed them up anywhere or version controlled them to a remote SVN server or anything like that. And then his hard drive failed and Buzz development was over. IIRC there even was a community-organized crowdfunding campaign to fund some fancy data recovery company to try and revive the hard drive so he could get the sources back (not sure if this ever turned out happening).

Re: Building a TB-303 from Scratch

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post #4

I think “simulate” would’ve been a more accurate word than “build”.

I also expected hardware to be involved. But in the context of a list of tutorials on how to use this live coding tool the title makes sense though.

Re: Building a TB-303 from Scratch

#15

well by building 303, I would really expect building, something this guy do[1], not just simply using a filter in some shitty web app. [1] https://www.youtube.com/@MoritzKlein0/

Shitty? Why so harsh? That web app IMO is great, like supercollider running in a browser.

At least it isn't some ai slop

Re: Building a TB-303 from Scratch

#16

This is cool, but I would personally find an og iMac and install rebirth.

The Windows version (a legal, non-cracked, copy, even) runs well in QEMU. Pretty sure I managed to get it working in WINE as well at some point, but I prefer to have software running in QEMU as that tend to be much more install-and-forget rather than having to fiddle with settings or/and reinstall stuff every time there is an upgrade or I move to new hardware.

Re: Building a TB-303 from Scratch

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well by building 303, I would really expect building, something this guy do[1], not just simply using a filter in some shitty web app. [1] https://www.youtube.com/@MoritzKlein0/

The guy built the "shitty web app" (that's actually pretty cool, not shitty) from scratch.

Re: Building a TB-303 from Scratch

#18
I'd love to see a deep dive into the 303 CPU and their replicas like https://www.sonic-potions.com/re303 and https://socialentropy.com/pages/product_qs303

sonic potions has an analysis of the cpu timings here https://sonic-potions.com/Documentation/Analysis_of_the_D650...

Theres also some nice articles about the diode ladder filter in the 303, similar to the one in the vcs3 https://www.timstinchcombe.co.uk/index.php?pge=diode2

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