This broke the whole thing down and made it way more comprehensive than any other videos I’ve seen. Cheers dude, good video, hopefully now I’ll better know my way around it when I get it lol.
Quite LITERALLY the MOST comprehensive tutorial I have EVER come across on programming the td-3…. My upmost respect,admiration and appreciation for this… Thank you,Thank you,Thank you!!!!!!!
Great tutorial along with your more advanced one. I'd been scared off using the internal sequencer by people saying how tough it was to use but it's actually not too bad when you get your head around it
honestly the best delivery of any synth tutorial i've ever seen. I thought i knew how to program the 303 but you delivered it all in such a way that I understand it so much better. The text and the visual is perfect. Thank you so much. I'm going to have a morning cuppa tea and ten minutes with the 303
Thanks for the lovely comment. If you are up for fully understanding the note, tie ,rest and slide interactions I made a more advanced video about that too.
Thanks for this. It showed me that instead of pulling my hair out try to input the exact arpeggio I have in my head it is more rewarding to just input the notes from the key you are working in and just play with ties, rests and slides until a happy accident happens. And also it shows you can get really nice patterns with just 4 steps.
Thanks Mikael. I have another advanced video showing exactly how the ties and rests etc move the notes around but you are right. Just set the notes in the scale you want and let the rest be a happy accident
Thanks so much for posting this tutorial , Id don't think I'd be able to program this machine anywhere near as good as this using only the manual, excellent job
I have the Yellow TD3 as well! Thanks for the tutorial! I watched a few others, but your's made it really easy to understand (the three steps). Thanks a bunch!!
Thanks I watched a few myself and felt like their was room for improvement. I'll be making a more advanced one about the ties rests and slides soon as it can be a bit tricky knowing which note is getting tied etc
Incredible tutorial. I had just commanded this bad boy and wanted to see on youtube sole videos about it . And its how i came here and realised somebody made a incredibly detailled and good tutorial how to use this bad boy. Also the kind of songs i want to play are like confusion ,so i really enjoyed the fact that you show how to make this song in particular. Great video ,you just earned a new subscriber😁😁😁👌👌👌👌
Thank you Maciek, I could not find a good clear tutorial for it, so decided to make one. ( I love confusion too so it seemed perfect ). I have a more advanced tutorial also shows how the sequencer deals with ties, rests and slides etc
@@avrilcadabra yes i saw the choice of videos on your channel. Good work , you're right its rare to find good videos about it on youtube. Great job buddy all your videos gonna help me a lot 😁 greetings from poland
i did NOT think i would have found this, so i never searched it, and it was recommended to me. Ha! I love it. Thanks! You helped me figure out some shit on this thing i didn't know before.
This wasn't the New Order Confusion i was expecting. 😁 But kudos for crediting the original artist's work and not just generically referring to it as Blade or something. 🙂👍
I like your sarcasm and agree with you, even though it was my intent to not just call the song "operation blade" and give no shout to the original artists. I did my best to raise awareness of the original artists and am truly sorry if you woke up today and thought, wow I am going to make a cover of new order confusion with a 303 and it's going to be something the world is going to love, they won't see this coming. Only to find out some vampire movie did it 25 years ago.
This is great! You just saved me a lot of time figuring out timing, and also rests and ties. That was next on my list. This will help me a lot. Thanks so much, I owe ya one. I know one can do this on the computer, but I like pushing the buttons, it’s all right there. Thanks! 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks Charles I thought you had it all figured out. I like sequencing on the digitakt but I think doing it on the td-3 makes you come up with more genuine patterns
Avrilcadabra agreed! I pretty much had it figured out, just hadn’t goofed around with ties or rests, but I see it’s not bad at all. At first it was a bit daunting but really not that hard, like some make it out to be. I’ve been having a lot of fun with mine, looks like you’ve been enjoying yours as well. I still need to dive into my Neutron. One reason I like your videos, they keep me motivated..!!🙏🙏🙏
I always learn so much from you. Thanks. Of course this has now pushed me off the fence to order a TD-3. Because of what you demonstrated with the Neutron, I didn't think I needed one but now . . . :-) I have also decided to get an RD-6 when they come out. Just can't afford a Digitakt right now.
Thank you very much for all these videos. I have the neutron and the td 3 and the crave :) your video is very informative and the format is excellent especially for the neutron and the patches, I learned a lot thanks to you. thank you very much, don't let go
This is fucking awesome. I've had my td3 for close to a year now, and now I actually know some shit about it! I've loved it from day one, but mostly it had been a mystery to me how things were gonna come back sounding. Which was really no issue though, lol.
Pretty sure most the famous 303 patterns were made with a bit of luck, I've another advanced video that shows how the note stealing etc works and a triplet one too, triplets sound great.
Great work, thanks. (I'm now a subscriber.) But funny thing ... I programmed this sequence into an Aruturia MiniBrute 2S, which has pitch and octaves, ties, rests and even a way to do accents with the filter pressure. But for some reason my sequence isn't sounding right. Could it be the tie on the Minibrute 2s differs from the TD-3 ties? Thanks.
Before I had a td-3 I tried to use this set of notes to sequence my neutron and it just didn't sound right. Now I know yes the rests and ties are moving notes in an odd way ( In my other advanced td-3 tutorial I go over this but probably difficult to use this information on your 2s). I do have the notes I used in my ( neutron 303 ) tutorial still in the digitakt somewhere but have a migraine today. Let me know if you get stuck though and I will get those notes off the digitakt. Thanks for the sub. Wish I had some minibrute content for you! Looks like a fun synth
@@avrilcadabra Thank you so much for the reply, it helps knowing you've had the same problem. I'm thinking the difference between tb-303s and other sequencers is that the tb-303 has both a "tie" and a "slide." Whereas, the minibrute 2s just has a "tie." So that's surely going to have an effect on the sound. I'll go check out your other tut. And sorry about your migraine. Take care.
this tuto was verrry helpfull. i thänks a lot f0r dhis videö. Aaafter wötching dhis i wos a pröfi in sedding up my TD-3. Please mmake more of this Content so i dont have to read the instructions for use. Sörry for accént i hopes shat you can understand mich :)
Having never been able to get my hands on the original, i always used emulations. Actually using that messed up sequencer (which in hindsight makes a lot of sense when you think of the technology they had at the time) is interesting! There's a chaotic element to it that's real fun. Even when I try to write something very specific, i still mess something up half the time and it's fun as hell! I guess if it was my only sequencer and it didn't have midi in, I'd be less forgiving, but it's a good change of pace every now and again
Agreed. It is very difficult to write a complicated intended pattern when ties and rests are added in. Finding an accidental gem in the chaos is far more appealing and I have no doubt how all the famous patterns were made. I am planning to make a video about using it as a standalone sequencer via cv. Midi and usb. Should be intriguing to see if the magic of its sequencer can translate to other instruments
@@avrilcadabra absolutely do that! Is the slide transfered to the pitch cv? I haven't tried it yet🤔 There really is something accidentally magic about the 303. I don't really believe that about most instruments, but there's a lot of little things that make it a "more than the sum of it's parts" instrument
So i tried a 303 roland, original. And tomorrow im gping tp get one of these, just because irs so cheap! And tbh, im in tje middle of a techno track, i need a authentic analog sounding acid line. This will be a life saver. Especially given the boutique line is like 4 times the cost. I mean, its cute but i think this will do great. Are there any bugs or anything i need to know about or does it do the job?
Thanks a lot for this tutorial. I learn way better from watching videos than I do owners manuals for most things. I do have a question. I just got my td3s and if I’m just playing around with the notes and not programming the sequencer sometimes a note will get stuck and just keep ringing out even though I’m pressing other notes. Is this normal? It seems not normal.
Amazing tutorial, followed it and managed to get to the expected results ! Any chance that you would gives some tips about how to pair the td3 with a digitakt? I am trying to connect the two devices together, but not sure about which cables nor settings to use in order to play the td3 sequencer in the digitakt. Thanks and keep the good work flowing :)
Thanks that is great. I never really made digitakt tutorial videos as there is so many out there. The td3 does not let you change the midi in channel number with out synth tool. Need to set the sync on td3 to midi. Midi cable out of digitakt into td3. On digitakt go to track 9. Set channel to match td3 ( think you have to hold func and press the encoder ) after that its just same as any other digitakt track
@@avrilcadabra yes I understand 😊 thanks for the setting details, I will apply them right away 👍 I have a side question regarding your setup here, do you use a DAW or do you do everything on the digitakt? I was thinking if assigning a track for the td3 and one (or many) for the digitakt on ableton would be more practical to get the audio of the machines 🤔
I sequenced everything for a year with the digitakt. I will make my next video about digitakt and td3 midi. I recently got an akai force and have everything working via usb instead of midi cables. So will have to revert it back a bit to make video. I have done a video few months back about how the digitakt controls everything in the tiny studio. For audio go into a mixer and record the audio from that. Or a zoom h6 can do 6 channels. Or you could use overbridge into a daw
@@avrilcadabra That sounds really great! I am looking forward watching this next video, and will check how the digitakt controls the studio :) I think I will start using Overbridge into ableton as there's no extra cost for me, before I check any hardware option. Have a good day and thanks for the reply!
Do you use all hardware setup or using Ableton as well? Kind of confused about how to set it up (with for example Neutron and TD3) via USB Midi mode. Would be nice if you can make tutorial.
I used to sequence hardware with daws 20 years ago but that was via audio interface and midi din cables. What I use now is pure hardware setup, I do throw the outputted finished stereo tracks in ableton lately to master them with ozone plugins. But only time I have connected my setup to ableton was using the digitakt overbridge which let me integrate a single plugin into the hardware setup. So sadly not experienced at all with USB hybrid setups
Thanks for the great video! For some reason my patterns have a small pause at the end which kills the loop. The stock patterns dont seem to have this problem. Do you have any idea what I have set wrong?
@@avrilcadabra Im still not sure what went wrong but after an hour of playing with it it sorted itself out. Maybe I hit the metronome. All good now. These things are really fun and easy to program thanks to videos like yours.
I think its pretty stable. I definitely had it slip on one track but I don't tune it each time I use it. I just turn my analogue synths in and leave them for about 15 or 20 minutes to warm up
ok weird question: how close is this to the TB-303? my broken brain always had trouble learning my 303 but for some reason this makes so much more sense?
I don't have a 303 but I have read the original Roland manual and it is the same as far as I am concerned. It only get's tricky when you get into the more advanced interaction betweens tie's and rests etc. I have a video on that and that seems to be same as the 303 manual also. I do believe how I have shown it is a lot easier to understand than how Roland does with the original 303 manual though
Thank you. I have another video about syncing the td-3 to the a volca. I'm certain pocket operators sync ports are compatible with volcas. I also know the p.o have a few modes for syncing in different ways. So as long as the pocket operator is set to the right sync mode that video should explain the rest.
@@DJbace1 yes the way p.o. Use sync is with a trs cable you’ll need a splitter if you’re slaving the td3 to the pocket. You’ll have to check the guide on the po for which mode it is but one of them sends the audio on I think tip and sync signal on ring. The audio side will go into your mixer and the sync side will go into the td-3. Then the td3 audio out will also go into the mixer.
can you explain the note, tie, rest and on. Like, what does on mean? I went to the website and see note held, on, off, rest. I'm getting a bit confused
its confusing for sure, the buttons have multiple names and I've seen people call them a lot of things I think on that site says off and rest. . I would say (ON, NOTE, STEP) all mean the note will play ( Tie, Held ) means extend the note to take up the space of 2 notes. (OFF, REST) means no sound. In that spot. then UP an Down refer the the octave. I Made a more recent video explaining exactly how these functions interact and what they are actually doing. For example a Rest inserts a space between the notes, it does not turn a note OFF
@Avrilcadabra when i hit the START/STOP button and hit it later again, my TD-3 is out of sync with my Drummaschine i use MIDI to connect it, what can be the issue?
Hi Alice, I would use the drum machine as the master, and send clock and transport to the TD-3, if you then have the TD-3 clock source set to MIDI, the td-3 will start when you press play on the drum machine.
@@avrilcadabra thats exactly what i do. the TR8S is my Master via MIDI connected to the TD-3, but when i stop the TD-3 and start it again it is out of sync until i stop the TR8S and restart it. but in your Video it works well, so i dont know where i did the misstake
@@TheDjAliceD in this video. I was using the digitakt and I am pretty sure I have send transport disabled here. As I am pressing play on the td-3 and then just pressing play on the digitakt in time with the pattern. Depends what you need to do in the song you are making. Having mutes on a mixer would work. Sometimes I have the volume down on the td-3 and fade it in if its sync'd with transport. I imagine you could switch to a blank pattern then switch back when you wanted to come back in also if it was transport sync'd. Other wise don't send the transport just clock and just have to hit play on on the td-3 in time. Let me know if this isn't working. I don't have a tr8s so unsure of its midi settings. But maybe this topic is worthy of exploring in a video
I don't think I would recommend it for anyone, it is good for making authentic sounding 303 patches, and you can definitely sequence other gear with it, but it has limited range and starts to get complicated with how the rests and ties interact with the sequence. If you already have one though sure make some sequences it , worse that can happen is you make a weird pattern and I am pretty sure that is how most famous pattern were made on it.
Depends on budget. I think the sonicware XFM thats coming out soon will be very good value. 4 x 128 step tracks. 6 polyphony per step ( I'll have to test that) you could sequence 4 synths with or itself. As well it being a quite powerful synth for 199 usd + shipping.
@@avrilcadabra Sorry it doesn't make a lot of sense 😂. I must have been distracted whilst writing. Basically I'm asking; does this machine give out good enough sound (whilst playing live)? Or would you need to buy additional speakers?
if you want to make a 4 step long pattern, you press hold and tap Step 4 times, if you want an 8 step pattern you press hold and tap Step 8 times. It designates how many steps will be used. If you skip this it defaults to 16 steps, but then you must enter 16 values also into pitch and timing modes for it to work
Lmfao. "Sometimes you have to walk through a meat factory to get to the party".
That's my new life philosophy. F***ing brilliant 👌.
i wish i have a Ford ST ❤
This broke the whole thing down and made it way more comprehensive than any other videos I’ve seen. Cheers dude, good video, hopefully now I’ll better know my way around it when I get it lol.
Thanks DJ. Hopefully you don't have to wait too long
Quite LITERALLY the MOST comprehensive tutorial I have EVER come across on programming the td-3….
My upmost respect,admiration and appreciation for this…
Thank you,Thank you,Thank you!!!!!!!
Thanks Barry happy to hear it, there's an advanced video I have done too that gets into the nitty gritty of tie , rest interactions etc.
One of the better tutorials on this quirky little sequencer :) Good job!
Holy shit this is the best TD 3 tutorial I've ever seen
Great tutorial along with your more advanced one. I'd been scared off using the internal sequencer by people saying how tough it was to use but it's actually not too bad when you get your head around it
Thanks. Yeah I think it's worth knowing a bit at least. Nothing better than making a nice pattern on this sequencer
honestly the best delivery of any synth tutorial i've ever seen. I thought i knew how to program the 303 but you delivered it all in such a way that I understand it so much better. The text and the visual is perfect. Thank you so much. I'm going to have a morning cuppa tea and ten minutes with the 303
Thanks for the lovely comment. If you are up for fully understanding the note, tie ,rest and slide interactions I made a more advanced video about that too.
@@avrilcadabra exactly what im going to do on my sunday morning. A cup of tea and 303 and learning the advanced stuff. Cheers
Thanks for this. It showed me that instead of pulling my hair out try to input the exact arpeggio I have in my head it is more rewarding to just input the notes from the key you are working in and just play with ties, rests and slides until a happy accident happens. And also it shows you can get really nice patterns with just 4 steps.
Thanks Mikael. I have another advanced video showing exactly how the ties and rests etc move the notes around but you are right. Just set the notes in the scale you want and let the rest be a happy accident
Great video. Got my TD-3 in the mail today and has zero issues following this. Thank you very much for your knowledge and effort.
Awesome to hear you are sequencing on first day with TD-3!
... And I'm off the ground making my own patterns!!!! Beautifully put together, super well done :) Beat reading the manual!
Hands down best tutorial EVER for this sequencer!
Thanks so much for posting this tutorial , Id don't think I'd be able to program this machine anywhere near as good as this using only the manual, excellent job
Definitely one of the better tutorials on the weird and wonderful 303 sequencer. God, it can be an awkward bugger sometimes...
I have the Yellow TD3 as well! Thanks for the tutorial! I watched a few others, but your's made it really easy to understand (the three steps). Thanks a bunch!!
Thanks I watched a few myself and felt like their was room for improvement. I'll be making a more advanced one about the ties rests and slides soon as it can be a bit tricky knowing which note is getting tied etc
Great tutorial, no bullshit, clear and straight to the point. Thanks!
Best Tutorial. I didnt even know 16 is default pattern. Thanks
The best tutorial I've seen for this machine, thank you very very much.
Thanks John. I made another one that covers the interaction of ties and rests and slides etc if this one leaves you with any unanswered questions
@@avrilcadabra yes I've seen that one too, one of the reasons that helped me make up my mind and buy the td3
Cheers =D I've picked up more watching this than reading the manual. Let the good times roll.
The behringer manual is not so good. I had to read the Roland 303 manual.
Excellent video!!! No point watching any other tutorials on the TD-3!!
Hi, I'm a new channel member. I've just bought TD3 today to go with my RD6. I'll be listening and watching your tutorials thank you 🎛🎚🎹🙂👍
Best video on the TD-3 on TH-cam 👍👍👍
This is an awesome tutorial for a fiendishly complicated but incredible machine, thank you so much !!
So glad stumbled on this, most concise tutorial I've seen. Subscribed!
Thank you Cesar!
great work! just picked up the td3 to compliment my volca drum (which only worked thanks to your other video about sync!). thank you!
Excellent job. Thank you. That sequencer makes a lot more sense now.
Amazing tutorial... my head is finally straight about this sequencer... I even figured out the triplets because of it! Thanks
One step ahead of me, going to make a triplets video next !
Great tutorial. I found this song fantastic when I watched Blade as it came out. Long time ago. Thanks!
The best tutorials on YT ever. Very helpfully to me. Thx 🤜🏼🤛🏿
Thanks so much Kwoter! Have a lovely day
Incredible tutorial. I had just commanded this bad boy and wanted to see on youtube sole videos about it . And its how i came here and realised somebody made a incredibly detailled and good tutorial how to use this bad boy.
Also the kind of songs i want to play are like confusion ,so i really enjoyed the fact that you show how to make this song in particular. Great video ,you just earned a new subscriber😁😁😁👌👌👌👌
Thank you Maciek, I could not find a good clear tutorial for it, so decided to make one. ( I love confusion too so it seemed perfect ). I have a more advanced tutorial also shows how the sequencer deals with ties, rests and slides etc
@@avrilcadabra yes i saw the choice of videos on your channel. Good work , you're right its rare to find good videos about it on youtube. Great job buddy all your videos gonna help me a lot 😁 greetings from poland
wooohoooo love this thing and also the MO. just pure fun
Thank you for showing it playing some real acid house beats. I think you’ve just sold it to me ;3
Thank you! This was very helpful.
I had not fully understood that one should enter the number of steps before entering the notes.
If you don't enter the steps it does default to 16 which is handy to know. Thanks for watching
Great vid. Just got a TD-3 and this helped immensely. Always read the 303 was a pain to program. It’s definitely different, but doable.
Great to hear! enjoy your new td-3
i did NOT think i would have found this, so i never searched it, and it was recommended to me. Ha! I love it. Thanks! You helped me figure out some shit on this thing i didn't know before.
Thanks. The algorithm doing right by both of us!
This is the tutorial I needed, thank you
Great video, best tutorial I have seen!
This wasn't the New Order Confusion i was expecting. 😁 But kudos for crediting the original artist's work and not just generically referring to it as Blade or something. 🙂👍
I like your sarcasm and agree with you, even though it was my intent to not just call the song "operation blade" and give no shout to the original artists. I did my best to raise awareness of the original artists and am truly sorry if you woke up today and thought, wow I am going to make a cover of new order confusion with a 303 and it's going to be something the world is going to love, they won't see this coming. Only to find out some vampire movie did it 25 years ago.
Mine arrived today! Looking forward to tonight. Thanks for putting this together
Awesome will look forward to hearing it in action on your channel. Was going to ask what colour but I'll let it be a surprise
This is great! You just saved me a lot of time figuring out timing, and also rests and ties. That was next on my list. This will help me a lot. Thanks so much, I owe ya one. I know one can do this on the computer, but I like pushing the buttons, it’s all right there. Thanks! 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks Charles I thought you had it all figured out. I like sequencing on the digitakt but I think doing it on the td-3 makes you come up with more genuine patterns
Avrilcadabra agreed! I pretty much had it figured out, just hadn’t goofed around with ties or rests, but I see it’s not bad at all. At first it was a bit daunting but really not that hard, like some make it out to be. I’ve been having a lot of fun with mine, looks like you’ve been enjoying yours as well. I still need to dive into my Neutron. One reason I like your videos, they keep me motivated..!!🙏🙏🙏
I always learn so much from you. Thanks. Of course this has now pushed me off the fence to order a TD-3. Because of what you demonstrated with the Neutron, I didn't think I needed one but now . . . :-) I have also decided to get an RD-6 when they come out. Just can't afford a Digitakt right now.
Thanks. It is a fun device. So quirky in everything it does. I am going to get a rd6 also. Why not they will sound good together.
My TD-3 came today. Guess what the first thing I did with it was. I'll be referring back to this vid for a while.
Really good and useful tutorial. Thanks for doing this, got the MO version yesterday so this helps massively
Thanks, the MO version looks a lot of fun
Great video - really helpful, thanks for making it!
Great Tutorial👍👍👍 My TD-3 just arrived this week, still experimenting😬😉
Thanks Klang. Still use mine all the time. Enjoy your experiments!
@@avrilcadabra I will😉🙌
Thank you very much for all these videos. I have the neutron and the td 3 and the crave :) your video is very informative and the format is excellent especially for the neutron and the patches, I learned a lot thanks to you. thank you very much, don't let go
Thank you for the comment means a lot. I am going to buy crave when stores re-open.
You're doing God's work son
This is so good. Thanks for doing it.
EXCELLENT TUTORIAL 💥⚡😎⚡💥
This is fucking awesome. I've had my td3 for close to a year now, and now I actually know some shit about it! I've loved it from day one, but mostly it had been a mystery to me how things were gonna come back sounding. Which was really no issue though, lol.
Pretty sure most the famous 303 patterns were made with a bit of luck, I've another advanced video that shows how the note stealing etc works and a triplet one too, triplets sound great.
You cleared loads up!
Great work, thanks. (I'm now a subscriber.) But funny thing ... I programmed this sequence into an Aruturia MiniBrute 2S, which has pitch and octaves, ties, rests and even a way to do accents with the filter pressure. But for some reason my sequence isn't sounding right. Could it be the tie on the Minibrute 2s differs from the TD-3 ties? Thanks.
Before I had a td-3 I tried to use this set of notes to sequence my neutron and it just didn't sound right. Now I know yes the rests and ties are moving notes in an odd way ( In my other advanced td-3 tutorial I go over this but probably difficult to use this information on your 2s). I do have the notes I used in my ( neutron 303 ) tutorial still in the digitakt somewhere but have a migraine today. Let me know if you get stuck though and I will get those notes off the digitakt. Thanks for the sub. Wish I had some minibrute content for you! Looks like a fun synth
@@avrilcadabra Thank you so much for the reply, it helps knowing you've had the same problem. I'm thinking the difference between tb-303s and other sequencers is that the tb-303 has both a "tie" and a "slide." Whereas, the minibrute 2s just has a "tie." So that's surely going to have an effect on the sound. I'll go check out your other tut. And sorry about your migraine. Take care.
If you can set legato portamento ( glide ) its the same thing. From memory the first note slides down an octave but its an 1/8th not a 16th
Clarifying the confusion 👌
1/2 speed playback is my friend. awesome tutorial, things are now demystified
Thanks and thats a good idea with the half speed
this tuto was verrry helpfull. i thänks a lot f0r dhis videö. Aaafter wötching dhis i wos a pröfi in sedding up my TD-3. Please mmake more of this Content so i dont have to read the instructions for use.
Sörry for accént i hopes shat you can understand mich :)
Having never been able to get my hands on the original, i always used emulations. Actually using that messed up sequencer (which in hindsight makes a lot of sense when you think of the technology they had at the time) is interesting! There's a chaotic element to it that's real fun. Even when I try to write something very specific, i still mess something up half the time and it's fun as hell! I guess if it was my only sequencer and it didn't have midi in, I'd be less forgiving, but it's a good change of pace every now and again
Agreed. It is very difficult to write a complicated intended pattern when ties and rests are added in. Finding an accidental gem in the chaos is far more appealing and I have no doubt how all the famous patterns were made. I am planning to make a video about using it as a standalone sequencer via cv. Midi and usb. Should be intriguing to see if the magic of its sequencer can translate to other instruments
@@avrilcadabra absolutely do that! Is the slide transfered to the pitch cv? I haven't tried it yet🤔 There really is something accidentally magic about the 303. I don't really believe that about most instruments, but there's a lot of little things that make it a "more than the sum of it's parts" instrument
The mystery of the cv slide! Will be a fun exercise
Thanks , I did learn something
This is so fucking good, i have this and the rd, too. Cant wait to stick this pattern in and pretend to my kids that im superstar dj and producer.
Thanks a lot for this.
So i tried a 303 roland, original. And tomorrow im gping tp get one of these, just because irs so cheap! And tbh, im in tje middle of a techno track, i need a authentic analog sounding acid line. This will be a life saver. Especially given the boutique line is like 4 times the cost. I mean, its cute but i think this will do great. Are there any bugs or anything i need to know about or does it do the job?
There is a firmware update that improves the slides I think. I have not done it yet. You should be good to go
omg thank you so much for this video
Brilliant thanks man 😊
dude i just picked mine up yesterday and what did you expect, first thing i programmed in was the blood rave theme
This is the way!
gracias tambien tengo el amarillo,es el mejor color ,esa cara acid house ,el mejor diseño jejejjejejeje y buen tutorial
Brilliant, thank you
thanks man very clear
I ended up buying a Volca Nubass because of how easy is to program its sequencer. This sounds good but I didn’t want to deal with the sequencer.
Thank you!
Good job bro 👍 ty
Is the external pedal pricing any off board effects? Or is all the sound coming from the TD-3 only?
Probably has reverb on it. The mixer I use has a nice hall reverb.
nice one, thanks
Thanks a lot for this tutorial. I learn way better from watching videos than I do owners manuals for most things. I do have a question. I just got my td3s and if I’m just playing around with the notes and not programming the sequencer sometimes a note will get stuck and just keep ringing out even though I’m pressing other notes. Is this normal? It seems not normal.
Thanks. That does not seem right. Not had that happen but I don't play the keys too much. Perhaps do an update on it.
@@avrilcadabra fare enough. I completely forgot about firmware on this device. Thanks for the help man!
Amazing tutorial, followed it and managed to get to the expected results ! Any chance that you would gives some tips about how to pair the td3 with a digitakt? I am trying to connect the two devices together, but not sure about which cables nor settings to use in order to play the td3 sequencer in the digitakt. Thanks and keep the good work flowing :)
Thanks that is great. I never really made digitakt tutorial videos as there is so many out there. The td3 does not let you change the midi in channel number with out synth tool.
Need to set the sync on td3 to midi. Midi cable out of digitakt into td3. On digitakt go to track 9. Set channel to match td3 ( think you have to hold func and press the encoder ) after that its just same as any other digitakt track
@@avrilcadabra yes I understand 😊 thanks for the setting details, I will apply them right away 👍 I have a side question regarding your setup here, do you use a DAW or do you do everything on the digitakt? I was thinking if assigning a track for the td3 and one (or many) for the digitakt on ableton would be more practical to get the audio of the machines 🤔
I sequenced everything for a year with the digitakt. I will make my next video about digitakt and td3 midi. I recently got an akai force and have everything working via usb instead of midi cables. So will have to revert it back a bit to make video. I have done a video few months back about how the digitakt controls everything in the tiny studio. For audio go into a mixer and record the audio from that. Or a zoom h6 can do 6 channels. Or you could use overbridge into a daw
@@avrilcadabra That sounds really great! I am looking forward watching this next video, and will check how the digitakt controls the studio :) I think I will start using Overbridge into ableton as there's no extra cost for me, before I check any hardware option. Have a good day and thanks for the reply!
this is really great and super easy to understand
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Very clear tnx a lot
Do you use all hardware setup or using Ableton as well? Kind of confused about how to set it up (with for example Neutron and TD3) via USB Midi mode. Would be nice if you can make tutorial.
I used to sequence hardware with daws 20 years ago but that was via audio interface and midi din cables. What I use now is pure hardware setup, I do throw the outputted finished stereo tracks in ableton lately to master them with ozone plugins. But only time I have connected my setup to ableton was using the digitakt overbridge which let me integrate a single plugin into the hardware setup.
So sadly not experienced at all with USB hybrid setups
Thanks for the great video! For some reason my patterns have a small pause at the end which kills the loop. The stock patterns dont seem to have this problem. Do you have any idea what I have set wrong?
Hmm that is strange. Not come across that before. Does it even do it on small 4 note patterns etc?
@@avrilcadabra Im still not sure what went wrong but after an hour of playing with it it sorted itself out. Maybe I hit the metronome. All good now. These things are really fun and easy to program thanks to videos like yours.
Have you had any trouble getting the td-3 to stay in tune with other synths?
I think its pretty stable. I definitely had it slip on one track but I don't tune it each time I use it. I just turn my analogue synths in and leave them for about 15 or 20 minutes to warm up
After I program the sequence and press play nothing comes out. Do you know what could be happening? thx for the great video
Start simple with just 4 notes. If it won't play it means one of the elements is missing. Most likely the timing section
ok weird question: how close is this to the TB-303? my broken brain always had trouble learning my 303 but for some reason this makes so much more sense?
I don't have a 303 but I have read the original Roland manual and it is the same as far as I am concerned. It only get's tricky when you get into the more advanced interaction betweens tie's and rests etc. I have a video on that and that seems to be same as the 303 manual also. I do believe how I have shown it is a lot easier to understand than how Roland does with the original 303 manual though
Very good stuff here! learned so much thank you! Question tho, im trying to clock sync TD3 with Pocket Operators, how does one do this?
Thank you. I have another video about syncing the td-3 to the a volca. I'm certain pocket operators sync ports are compatible with volcas. I also know the p.o have a few modes for syncing in different ways. So as long as the pocket operator is set to the right sync mode that video should explain the rest.
@@avrilcadabra where is the vidv
@@DJbace1 should be in the same playlist as this one. I have 4 tutorial videos on the td-3
@@avrilcadabra no luck syncing do i need a mixer?
@@DJbace1 yes the way p.o. Use sync is with a trs cable you’ll need a splitter if you’re slaving the td3 to the pocket. You’ll have to check the guide on the po for which mode it is but one of them sends the audio on I think tip and sync signal on ring. The audio side will go into your mixer and the sync side will go into the td-3. Then the td3 audio out will also go into the mixer.
nice vids thanks
can you explain the note, tie, rest and on. Like, what does on mean? I went to the website and see note held, on, off, rest. I'm getting a bit confused
its confusing for sure, the buttons have multiple names and I've seen people call them a lot of things I think on that site says off and rest. . I would say (ON, NOTE, STEP) all mean the note will play ( Tie, Held ) means extend the note to take up the space of 2 notes. (OFF, REST) means no sound. In that spot. then UP an Down refer the the octave.
I Made a more recent video explaining exactly how these functions interact and what they are actually doing. For example a Rest inserts a space between the notes, it does not turn a note OFF
@Avrilcadabra when i hit the START/STOP button and hit it later again, my TD-3 is out of sync with my Drummaschine i use MIDI to connect it, what can be the issue?
Hi Alice, I would use the drum machine as the master, and send clock and transport to the TD-3, if you then have the TD-3 clock source set to MIDI, the td-3 will start when you press play on the drum machine.
@@avrilcadabra thats exactly what i do. the TR8S is my Master via MIDI connected to the TD-3, but when i stop the TD-3 and start it again it is out of sync until i stop the TR8S and restart it. but in your Video it works well, so i dont know where i did the misstake
@@TheDjAliceD in this video. I was using the digitakt and I am pretty sure I have send transport disabled here. As I am pressing play on the td-3 and then just pressing play on the digitakt in time with the pattern.
Depends what you need to do in the song you are making. Having mutes on a mixer would work. Sometimes I have the volume down on the td-3 and fade it in if its sync'd with transport.
I imagine you could switch to a blank pattern then switch back when you wanted to come back in also if it was transport sync'd. Other wise don't send the transport just clock and just have to hit play on on the td-3 in time. Let me know if this isn't working. I don't have a tr8s so unsure of its midi settings. But maybe this topic is worthy of exploring in a video
I typed this whole pattern in, plugged the machine into pa system, it don't sound like this. You've got a reverb or something playing too.😢
yeah just a basic reverb built into the mixer on this one, every musician needs access to some reverb
When the bass is hitting at the end is that from the same device or a different one
the 909 drums ? that's from a drum machine, the td3/303 is a bassline synth
thanks for your tutorials!
would you recommend this sequencer for a beginner? :)
I don't think I would recommend it for anyone, it is good for making authentic sounding 303 patches, and you can definitely sequence other gear with it, but it has limited range and starts to get complicated with how the rests and ties interact with the sequence. If you already have one though sure make some sequences it , worse that can happen is you make a weird pattern and I am pretty sure that is how most famous pattern were made on it.
@@avrilcadabra thanks so much for your reply...which sequencer would you recommend fod a beginner then? :D
Depends on budget. I think the sonicware XFM thats coming out soon will be very good value. 4 x 128 step tracks. 6 polyphony per step ( I'll have to test that) you could sequence 4 synths with or itself. As well it being a quite powerful synth for 199 usd + shipping.
@@avrilcadabra I'll take a look thanks!! :)
@@avrilcadabra currently I'm on IK Multimedia UNO :)
hi avrilcadabra , i have a problem i can enter only 12 notes in my td 3 ? can you help me please thanks i am a beginner
Hi David. I would try clearing the pattern. As it maybe set to triplet mode.
@@avrilcadabra resolud problem thanks you very much
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Got one. Sometimes sounds a bit like Daffy Duck, so after an re-303 soon.
They seem pretty close once trimmed. Still the re-303 looks like a fun project.
Of load is it as it comes? Do you need additional speakers?
Not quite getting the context of your question
@@avrilcadabra Sorry it doesn't make a lot of sense 😂.
I must have been distracted whilst writing.
Basically I'm asking; does this machine give out good enough sound (whilst playing live)? Or would you need to buy additional speakers?
@@davidbetts2980 the machine itself has no speakers, at it's most basic it needs a power supply and a set of headphones to be used
@@billygough3636 Thank you, I know now as I own a few synthesisers. But thank you 👍
What does the Hold + Step do at 0:40 please?
if you want to make a 4 step long pattern, you press hold and tap Step 4 times, if you want an 8 step pattern you press hold and tap Step 8 times. It designates how many steps will be used. If you skip this it defaults to 16 steps, but then you must enter 16 values also into pitch and timing modes for it to work
@@avrilcadabra Ahh nice one, thanks :-)
The kick sound is it from td3?
No it is not a drum machine.
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You know how realtime record works now? :D
not used TD-3 for a couple years, if it's not shown in this or the advanced video then I didn't cover it.
Classic!!
One of my all time faves!
The confusion sound is standard in Serum (vst) - th-cam.com/video/kfTRLnsjUNY/w-d-xo.html
Nice remix :)
Want this little filth box BUT Silver or Yellow?!🤔
The black one looks pretty class also
Avrilcadabra ahhh i have wayyy too much black tho! A big black ms-101 needs a little bright winky yellow buddy huh?🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@thebmxband1t I went for the yellow one and also have a black 101 :D
Janis Robens SNAP!!! I went for the Yella Fella🤣🤣
What do note, tie and rest mean?
sound, longer sound, no sound.
@@avrilcadabra thankyou, big time, i mean it 🙂👍