
Upp the level knob right of the decay knob just by about 1/5 of the knob total amount. Decay knob about 180 degrees around the knob. Max out Level knob left of the attack knob. Go to envelope 1 and turn attack down to 0. Hold it in and pull it up (you should start hearing sound) so it goest 180 degrees around the cutoff knob. Take envelope 1 and drag/drop to the Cutoff. Select Squ-Sw 1 and pull the WT-position all the way to the right so you only get a normal saw sound. That said this will at least get you started.įor anyone who wants to make this sound in MASSIVE it's pretty simple. There is a lot to the TB-303, and the more you learn about it, the more you realize it's unique characteristics. My suggestion is to listen to a clean TB 303, and get your synth sounding as close as you can, THEN add the distortion. Also play around with the envelope amount.įInally, you will want to add some kind of distortion in there for sure. You'll need to set up a fast attack on your filter modulation, and then a decay time to taste down to zero. An accented note is louder, has a bit of a filter and possibly resonance boost, also the decay of the note is set to the minimum decay). Luckily there doesn't seem to be any accented notes in that particular sequence, so you don't have to emulate that.


The range of the cutoff and resonance isn't that big. If you're using Ableton and the sampler, this is where you want to add the shaper to the filter. The TB-303 has a very messed up 4 pole ladder filter, so there is a lot of dispute as to whether or not its a full 24 pole filter, or an 18 pole filter. Play around with a 3 pole or 4 pole filter.

Your best bet is to find a sample of an original TB 303 (or one of the true clones) with the filter fully open and no resonance. The TB 303 obsentiably has a "square" and a "saw" wave, but neither one of them are particularly square or saw like-especially the square!.
