The Roland TB-303 ! the legendary Transistor Bass synthesizer by Roland.
Created to emulate bass sound and used by nearly nobody until someone saw the light : “hey, listen what happens when i turn these knobs!!” turn up the res to the max ! yeah ! aciiiiiiiiiid
Back to the Chicago House, Acid House, Belgian New Beat, then Acid Techno, Acid Trance and every electronic music genre.
Now let list some free TB303 software emulations :
Yooz BL-303 is a free software synthesizer developed by Yooz Music. Available format (s): VST, Audio Unit for Windows 64b, macOS. Yooz BL-303 is a free contribution synth with Big Love to the legendary Roland TB-303. Version 2.0 includes more beautiful user interface, sounds better and behave more like the original TB-303. Free TB-303 VST Emulation The Creakbox Bassline plugin by bioroid (Bad Boys extension) is an old and almost forgotten little gem. It is, in fact, the best free Roland TB-303 VST emulation ever made! The Creakbox VST plug-in is in essence a mono synth with a built-in sequencer, that brings back the Detroit and Chicago sound of the 80's in no time. Free VST bassline Synthesizer download. In the footsteps of the great Roland TB-303 - The PD303 is a bass line synthesizer with a twist, it's a mash up of the classic analog bass line with the Casio CZ Phase-Distortion sound source.
1. Rebirth RB-338 by Propellerhead (Standalone)
Rebirth RB-303, free ! aciid
Information and download : http://www.rebirthmuseum.com/
Rebirth was one of the first TB303 software emulation, in 1997!
And it’s free since 2005.
Rebirth is more than a TB303 emulator ; you have two TB303, and TR909 + TR808 drum machine emulations + onboard effects . The software is old, and it still sounds incredible.
As it’s a standalone application, you have to use rewire for sync with your sequencer. Useful informations about sync etc.. can be found here : http://www.rebirthmuseum.com/support/support2.htm
Installing Rebirth 338 on Windows 7 may require more steps, you have to download the old winhelp32 to get Rebirth work on Windows 7. Here’s a blog post with all the link you need :
The rebirth ISO torrent, the Win7 installer and the link to the win32help :
http://sporsmaal2blog.blogspot.fr/2010/02/how-to-install-and-run-propellerhead.html
2. RubberDuck by D-Lusion (Standalone)
Download for free ! => http://www.d-lusion.com/ProductsRubberduck.html
This one is even older than Rebirth 338. The sequencer has been simplified, compared to a real 303, and it’s a great gain of time when programming patterns!
There are also onboard effects : a simple but effective delay, and a distorsion unit for getting this squelchy acid sound.
The RubberDuck software is MIDI sync’able, Of course you can record as wav the output of the synth.
3. Creakbox BadBoyz edition (VST)
Creakbox Bad Boys edition
Roland Tb-303 Vst Free Download
download : Creakbox Bad Boys Edition
The Creakbox VST by Bioroid development was stopped and gone open source in 2004!
The “bad boys” edition adds an effect section with delay & multi distorsion unit : analog drive, rectifier, bit reducer etc.. + different filter modes : hipass, bandpass, bandstop, 18 or24 dB / octave.
The sound is good, but unfortunately the sequencer has some bugs in many VST hosts
acid trance !
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/creakbox.mp34. Venom VB-303 by Antto (VST)
More about and download here : http://antonsavov.net/cms/projects/venom-vb-303.html
This one is the newest : it’s a VST plugin made with Synthedit. It sounds very good and should work nice in all 32 bits VST hosts.
Acid house!
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/venom303.mp35. FreeBee (workname Lush) standalone
FreeBee 303
Info and download : archive + dl
The Audiorealism bassline ancestor !
This standalone application sounds very good, you can record as wav
mellow acid !
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/freebee.mp36. survey : do you need a free Creakbox VST 64 bit port ?
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In the footsteps of the great Roland TB-303 - The PD_303 is a bass line synthesizer with a twist, it's a mash up of the classic analog bass line with the Casio CZ Phase-Distortion sound source.
Free Roland 303 Vst Free
Phase Distortion has a very clean clinical sound quality, much like Frequency Modulation but with it's own unique waveforms. The pseudo-resonant waveforms are something special.
We've kept the controls clutter-free and direct for great tweak-ability.
Download PD-303
- Extract this file to your VST Plugins folder.
- Load you DAW.
- Apply your best robotic sequenced bass track.
- Tweak and automate that cutoff knob!