34 in a class of time and it s all in a little white lie. the 303 is a mop up of a noise. white noise to bass line code name atlantis in a class of time and it's all in a little white lie. the 303 is a mop up of a noise. the pitch decay and use of 1972's main mix of the midi will make a bass sound that makes mad people happy. < i beg to differ the year was 1982 > 1981 roland tb-303: defined the acid sound of house music. note that tb-303 is not the origin of this type product. for example of precedence from others, multivox firsan sq-01 was released in 1981. the roland tb- 303 bass line is a synthesizer with built-in sequencer manufactured by the roland corporation from 1982 to 1984 that had a defining role in the development of contemporary electronic music. the tb-303 (short for transistorized bass) was originally marketed to guitarists for bass accompaniment while practicing alone. production lasted approximately 18 months, resulting in only 10,000 units. it was not until the mid- to late-1980s that dj and electronic musicians in chicago found a use for the machine in the context of the newly developing house music genre. in the early 90's, as new acid styles emerged, the tb-303 was often overdrive, producing a harsher sound. examples of this technique include hard floor's 1992 ep acperience, and interlect 3000's 1993 ep volcano. the well-known acid sound is typically produced by playing a repeating note pattern on the tb-303, while altering the filter's cutoff frequency, resonance, and envelope modulation. the tb-303's accent control modifies a note's volume, filter resonance, and envelope modulation, allowing further variations in timbre. a distortion effect, either by using a guitar effects pedal or over driving the input of an audio mixer, is commonly used to give the tb-303 a denser, noisier timbre—as the resulting sound is much richer in harmonics. the head designer of the tb-303, tadao kikumoto, was also responsible for leading design of the tr-909 drum machine. copyright © 2017 christopher g brown patent christopher g brown 3528 2714 publisher: createspace independent publishing platform; large print edition (june 25, 1985) isbn-13: 978-1467904506