With the DSP card on its way, I’m excited to finally make one big low pH dream a reality: a proper TB-303 emulation in the box! 
Everybody needs one.
Does anyone have recommendations for plugin candidates or alternative approaches?
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If we can find a basic subtractive synth with a resonant LPF, ideally one that will allow you to load your own waveforms, then the building blocks are at least there. It sounds like the fluidsynth for the soundfonts might do a lot of that, however 1) I suspect the LPF will be pretty generic, and 2) it’s not clear to me how much editing we’ll have in the next while.
A generic synth into a gritty distortion might spice that up. I’ve been hopeful that I could do this for background pads using whatever the built-in content ends up being.
Alternatively, I’d suspect there are some open source / free synths with higher character filters, but I’m not really immersed in that world.
woof!!
I should be able to get this running.
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the S2400 has all the pieces of a basic synth. load up a waveform sample. use the built-in resonant LPF and envelopes and there you go. it won’t sound like a 303 tho. you’d still need a plugin that emulated the weird squelchiness of the 303 filter.
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Yeah… it’s that hollow, barky, 18db/octave filter through a RAT distortion, and I’m sure an emulation is to be found somewhere. That, plus the glide and accent in the sequencer!
Already reading some good suggestions here, let’s see what the experts come up with
Omg yes
Also found this: HS TB-303 Soundfont | Musical Artifacts
Less flexible I suppose, but an option.
It looks like there are also numerous freeware Moogulators out there, here is one summary page:
I haven’t gotten to scrub the list yet for Linux builds or open source-ness. The Viking VK-1 seems pretty interesting and well reviewed.
Is there going to be a way to spread parameters across all eight faders and knobs? I could see a few favorite bread and butter synths getting a half-sensible layout that made it plausible to actually tweak on the VST.
(Yes, I’ve turbo-skimmed the youtube videos and most of the recent posts. I would really pay you top dollar for an autographed copy of the manual.)
Low pH. Just caught that one.
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