What is it?
If you were a dance music producer back in the early 1990s, you wanted the sound of a Roland TB-303 to provide the thumping and squealing bass and lead lines in your music at whatever the cost, simple as that. The trouble was, that cost was rapidly increasing. With only 10,000 of the original units made, secondhand prices had shot up to a mighty £700 minimum (yes, that is peanuts compared to today’s – oh, we wish for a time machine), and such was the demand, that synth manufacturers started to think about analogue synthesis again, and releasing 303-alike hardware synths – previously unthinkable in those digital times.
