To: Analogue Heaven analogue@hyperreal.org,
From: Robin Whittle rw@firstpr.com.au,
cc:
Subject: [AH] International TB-303 Day!
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 00:58:52 +1100

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I hereby declare that today, 3 March 2003, 3-03-03 is International
TB-303 Day! Sorry about the short notice . . .

The TB-303 service manual is dated 19 February 1982, so our Babies are
officially adults now, at least in design, if not by birth, and very
often not at all in conduct.

The Devil Fish is nearly 10 years old now. I sent the first one to
Krishan Knowles in Sydney on 21 April 1993. The idea would have come
some time before this, because I did the first work towards the Devil
Fish on Ollie Olsen's TB-303, such as the overdrive, wider and zero
range for EnvMod, wider Filter range etc., well before this date. I
would have been working on Krishan's machine for quite a few weeks
before delivering it to him. So in spirit, the Devil Fish is ten years
old. The name must have come from this time, March - April 1993 too.

http://www.firstpr.com.au/rwi/dfish/dfspank.htmll has some history.
has some history.


I think that in honour of our curious little Creature's curly name and
sinuous ways that we should avow never to bore the dear thing with 4/4
or 16 beats or anything which is power of 2 on this, the TB-303's
SPECIAL DAY!

*3* and triplets are *IN* and prime numbers are especially Auspicious.

Lets give our little Babies a rest from the rigours of techno and damn
>>16<< and let them Romp, Ramble and Scurry in Threes, Fives, Sevens, Nineses and Elevenses all day, 3rd March every year, from here to Eternity, no matter how old they really are!


- Robin

http://www.firstpr.com.au/rwi/dfishish