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Conclusion

Given its humble roots, it is hard to overstate the allure of the TB-303. As a bass synth, it’s perfectly adequate, but it does lack the more complicated synthetic architecture found on its brethren, the SH-101.

We have to balance our arguments for and against original TB-303s by breaking things

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