![]() To be blunt, the 303 was a commercial flop. We can’t even begin to imagine how long the programming must have taken the 303 shipped with a manual that weighed about the same as the device itself, and it was pretty notorious for its labour intensive note-programming capabilities. Just an Illusion and Body Talk both benefitted from a silky bass tone, which glided from one note to the next, thanks to the ‘glide’ operation instigated at the sequencer’s step level. ![]() One such outing during the 80s, came from the British band Imagination, who utilised the identifiable 303 traits on a host of hits. While Roland hoped that it would be embraced as a bass-line-generating synth on a budget, there are relatively few instances of this engagement. ![]() If we were being a tad unkind, but entirely accurate, the 303 has been associated with many happy accidents over its lifetime.
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