![]() Used prices fell even lower, and that’s when a curious new breed of producers began to plunder the 303’s depths, for a typical cost of around £25 in the second hand ads. It was relatively cheap to begin with, but towards the end of its technology tenure, you could pick up a new 303 for next to nothing. 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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