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Roland TB-3 – Demo, Tutorial & Review
2025
Roland TB-3 – Demo, Tutorial & Review
Check out our ‘Roland AIRA TB-3’ review and demonstration with Consordini.com and ‘Nathan Cleary Music!’ featuring a quick dive through some of the features, sounds, pros, and cons of the unit. Based on the wildly influential TB-303, the new TB-3 Touch Bassline is a performance-ready bass synthesizer with authentic sound and intuitive controls engineered to play. The TB-3 contains the unmistakable character of its predecessor, wrapped in a modern package with a pressure-sensitive touch pad that makes both playing and programming a total joy.
CAPTURING THE ORIGINAL
- Meticulously crafted from a pristine TB-303 unit, original spec sheets, and archival data
- Roland’s ACB technology models each component and every aspect of the original TB-303 sound
- Faithful recreation of the original saw and square oscillator waveforms
- Attack, slide, tie, and other elements that characterize the TB-303 have been fully reproduced, including how they interact with each other
- Authentic filter behavior with smooth response and classic sound
TB EVOLVED
- Pressure-sensitive touchpad
- 134 captivating sounds, including the original TB-303 tones and new four-oscillator, effects-processed basses, leads, and sound effects
- Dedicated Tempo control with shuffle and tap tempo functions
- Control built-in effects with smooth, responsive knobs
- 7-segment, 3-character LED display
- Seamless switching between pattern creation and performance
- 16-step indicator lights to aid in pattern creation
- Pattern support for up to 32 steps
- Easy access to shuffle control for bass lines that groove
- Enter steps manually or record in real time on the touch pad
- Change step count during playback to alter the length of phrases
- Random pattern generation and pattern modification
- Pattern copy function
Beginning with a quick overview and discussion about the unit, followed by a quick tour of the main features and a minimal to no talking sound demo of the presets to finish and let you come to your own conclusions.
Overview
The Roland AIRA TB-3 is an official Roland developed, a modern reimagining of the famous Roland TB303 which was released way back in 1982 and reshaped the sound of music from dance, pop, rave and everything in between.
As there is plenty of coverage of the sounds of the original Roland 303 online and in various publications over the years, rather than comparing the sounds of both units (or any other clones etc) we will be focusing more on giving a fair and overall presentation of this modern unit’s particular functions, sounds and workflow as much as possible in this AIRA Review.
INTUITIVE GUI
As mentioned in the video itself, if you are a Musician or are coming to Synthesizers from a Musical Background, you will be pleased to know that the GUI of the TB 3 is VERY intuitive.
With a simple LED based keyboard layout it’s quick and easy to see what is happening at any time with a minimal amount of menu-diving to keep you on your toes and into the Music.
SEQUECNING, SEQUENCING, SEQUENCING!
While the sounds that come out of the box with the Aira TB-3 are great, especially the A bank for the more retro enthusiasts/lovers, the Sequencer and the ability to link it’s aforementioned capabilities to External Hardware/Synths through both MIDI and USB is where it can really bring it’s unique Sequencing, Sound and Style to your productions.
In addition, with the new connectivity option of the USB opening it up to both the Hardware and Software side of Music Production, it grants a bunch more combination possibilities than some of its counterparts and gets a big plus from us!
WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN GREAT…
While the ‘Pattern Chain’ feature is a great way to create and string complex patterns together, and you can work around this by copy and pasting patterns to line up next to each other, it would have been nice to be able to chain link any pattern with input order.
Moreover, while the limited controls are great and add to it’s on-the-fly workflow, a more expensive model with more options to create or synthesize your own sounds rather than tweaking already created presets would be an acid bassline creator’s dream! (This can be achieved by Sequencing another Synthesizer but would also have been nice to have onboard for people getting into Synthesis.)
In Conclusion
If you’re looking for the Sequencing Power, Workflow and Sound of the famous Roland303 with a couple of bells and whistles on top, then the Roland AIRA TB3 Touch Bassline will be right up your street!
It integrates nicely into a wide variety of setups and while some Vintage Synth enthusiasts might claim that the original 303 or some of the modern hardware clones are better sonically (which they very well may be) but for the Creative Music Producer looking for a great mix of flexibility, sound, price, features and functionality this really is a great unit to get your hands on and get making some new pop, dance or rave bangers for the world to hear!
What do you think of the Roland AIRA TB 3? Let us know in the comments below.
Wavesynth an Advanced Wavetable Synthesizer
Karanyi Sounds launched their most forward-looking instrument so far. Wavesynth is a new virtual instrument and a compelling waveshaper instrument for Kontakt 6.
Wavesynth Features
- 220+ Factory & Artist presets
- Sounds from 12 classic synths (Juno 106, JX & 8P, Voyager, Emulator, M1, Sub37, Prophet 6 & 8, OBX, MS20, CZ)
- 14 type of wavetable algorithms
- Amp & wavetable envelopes
- 2 LFO: Wavetable position & Prophet-type low pass filter
- Moog-type low pass filter
- 3 customizable effects: dimension, tape delay & hall reverb
- Master EQ, Compressor & Limiter
- ROLL (intelligent randomizer)
Big, bold basslines to super peaky sequences and arps, cinematic soundscapes, drones. Fully packed with synth legends and brave new sounds waiting for you to create something unique. Wavesynth, a powerful waveshaper instrument for Kontakt 6. Fully packed with synth legends and brave new sounds waiting for you to create something unique. Wavesynth is almost as flexible as an analog synth: you have plenty of possibilities to shape, twist, stomp your sounds.
With over 60 parameters (all MIDI-learnable) and an intuitive interface design and Roll (our built-in intelligent randomizer), you can go wild and create new inspiring patches in seconds. Including Classic Essentials + VHS Cinema Sound Sets.
You have two toys to play with right out of the box: Classic Essential Sound Pack is a big warm hug for retrowave lovers while the VHS Cinema Sound Pack is fully packed with useful patches for film composers, electronic musicians. With over 220 artist presets.
Wavesynth Features
- 220+ Factory & Artist presets
- Sounds from 12 classic synths (Juno 106, JX & 8P, Voyager, Emulator, M1, Sub37, Prophet 6 & 8, OBX, MS20, CZ)
- 14 type of wavetable algorithms
- Amp & wavetable envelopes
- 2 LFO: Wavetable position & Prophet-type low pass filter
- Moog-type low pass filter
- 3 customizable effects: dimension, tape delay & hall reverb
- Master EQ, Compressor & Limiter
- ROLL (intelligent randomizer)
Please note: Wavesynth requires Native Instruments Kontakt 6.2.2 (Full, retail version – free version of Kontakt NOT supported) or later in order to run.
About Karanyi Sounds
Karanyi Sounds is a sample developer company that was founded by award-winning composer, music producer Dani Karanyi in 2018. Over the last 17 years, Dani produced electronic music albums as well as film, animation, video game scores, and TV advertisements. As a pianist, he was always passionate about exploring how to bring life to the digital world of music production and seeking new techniques of sound manipulation. Teamed up with Los Angeles-based composers and other sound designers around Europe, he started to sample his favorite synthesizers and release them as Kontakt instruments with a simple-to-use, intuitive interface. Karanyi Sounds keep developing new inspiring instruments and expanding our repertoire to other sound sources too. Personally, I find the aesthetics mind-blowing outstanding pleasing.
Karanyi Sounds is crafting inspiring, high-quality sample collections in Kontakt format, focusing on film and video game scoring. Their goal is to create sonically rich, detailed and characteristic instruments like (or sometimes unlike than) the original sound sources. The company carefully select these sound sources while they also set up custom analog recording paths and rare combinations of effect chains to create unique, playable instruments. Unconventional recording techniques and sound design are as important parts of the modern music production as melodies and orchestration – so Karanyi Sounds is focusing on moods and characters as well as the sound sources themselves.
Pricing and Availability
Wavesynth is available now.
CL-Projects joined Triple Spiral Audio
Frank Dierickx from CL-Projects joined Triple Spiral Audio with a beautiful collection of products. Frank created 2 Omnisphere soundsets, 13 Kontakt libraries, and 3 soundbanks for the Roland D50 and Juno Alpha hardware synths.
CL-Projects is Frank Dierickx, a hobby musician & self-made sound designer. CL-Projects saw the light in 2012 with the idea to make patches for hardware and software synthesizers and later on to create sound libraries for the Native Instruments Kontakt sampler. He became interested in sampling because he wanted to use non-synth sounds like realistic choirs in his compositions. Kontakt was ideal for this purpose. He got interested in creating libraries himself, mainly libraries devoted to synthesizer sounds and his experience in programming synthesizers came in handy for creating these Kontakt libraries.
Because Frank’s first libraries (Electronic Expanse and the Pad Factory Series) were well received by friends, he decided to release his libraries to the public for a very economical price. He also creates patch banks for software and hardware synthesizers.
These CL-Projects soundsets, libraries, and soundbanks take you on a fantastic analog sound journey inspired by Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and many others.
Pricing and Availability
All the products are also available in various combinations as Bundles, so be sure to check those out as well.The CL-Projects soundsets and libraries are on sale with a 25% discount till 7 February, 2021 and you can find all the products here.
Roland Updates the Range of BCB Pedalboards
Roland updated their flagship BCB pedalboard range and added a new model—the premium travel-friendly BCB-1000. The BCB-90X and BCB-30X offer more flexibility for modern pedal layouts and the BCB-1000 is a robust and practical solution for traveling with your pedals.
The world of effects pedals really started to expand in the early 1970s, launching a new era of creative exploration for guitarists. Soon, top touring players and session musicians began commissioning elaborate custom-built rigs to house their effects, and the concept of the modern pedalboard was born. But for the average player, an affordable, off-the-shelf option was virtually non-existent for many years.
That all changed in 1982 when BOSS introduced the BCB-6, a user-configurable pedalboard for the masses. This breakthrough product featured an innovative molded design that was both the board and carrying case, and allowed guitarists to incorporate six compact pedals—plus the new BOSS TU-12 tuner, another milestone product—in an integrated, ready-to-play package.
Adopted by countless players in the decades since BCB pedalboards have continued to evolve to meet their changing needs. The latest BCB lineup is our most versatile and diverse to date, providing trusted BOSS solutions for modern pedal setups and musicians on the move.
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