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Friday 30 March 2018

Roland re-issues the 303 as the TB-03

I just found out by accident that Roland have decided to re-do/re-issue it's long discontinued classic, the TB-3030 as the TB-03, looking like an exact clone of it's 80s counterpart. Maybe this was in response to the rather un-impressive reaction to their Aira TB-3 device from a couple years ago, which I own and find very, very effective and pleasing. Plus before the re-release of the TB-03, was the only real viable alternative to owning an actual classic 303, which I saw fetching prices of $15000 in USD for used models. But then again, TB-303's were "the" classic acid squeeking box which no real technohead could be without (unless you had some kind of emulator or a competitor's equivalent), and the reputation of this machine goes without saying. Anyway, I am very happy with my Aira TB3, and hope that folks who weren't impressed by it to find the newly re-issued TB-03 a bit more to their liking!

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