Ultra 303 .....TB-303 CPU replacement project

Shroomz~> · Post by **Shroomz~>** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:32 pm

On 2005-10-27 13:13, stardust wrote:
Mr.Shroomz, now honestly,

do you think 'rank' matters ?
do you think 'number of posts' supersedes content ?

I will kindly ask John to reset the rank to 'noob' and the count to zero if that helps you in accepting my remorse for frankly speaking out.

Stardust, i'm not interested in arguing on this thread. PM me if you have a problem with anything i've said or taken anything to heart as there was no offence meant.

This thread is about the Ultra 303 project, so without further mindless mumbling i've got to say Yes Symbiote, there's actually some mention of Devil fish compatability on the Ultra 303 website. He also mentions that although he's made the CV/gate input inactive, he can configure the CV/gate outs to work for modular/analogue synth users etc, which is really cool.

I love the look of this mod & would love to find a dead 303 at a car boot sale or something to do it. But then, i'd have to visit car boot sales for that to happen

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:17 pm

I found the link interesting but Rebirth is free.

Mr Arkadin · Post by **Mr Arkadin** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:38 pm

Yeah but Rebirth is s**t.

petal · Post by **petal** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:15 am

here we go again...

symbiote · Post by **symbiote** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:10 am

Rebirth is nice and all, really not anywhere near as nice as a real 303, sorry =P.

Plus you can't devilfish Rebirth. Case closed!

Shroomz~> · Post by **Shroomz~>** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 4:42 pm

Ehhmm, maybe you could devil fish rebirth if you had an open source version. That might be better coming in the form of open source DSP code of some sort though, which wouldn't involve rebirth

petal · Post by **petal** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 3:39 am

Or maybe one of our new developers could devilfish the ol three-o-three

Shroomz~> · Post by **Shroomz~>** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:54 am

hehe, that would Rock petal & would pretty much be the roost-rulling daddy of 303 emulations

Great idea !!

Shroomz~> · Post by **Shroomz~>** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 11:30 am

WOW, there's been an update. Check out the latest diary entry !!

Here's a quote from the diary entry:

that's a perfect synced 64 color display... hurray it works but there is something bad ... the cpu is too slow to provide a fast pixelclock... i only can to maximal a resolution of 108*500... 108 is no typo... so 108 is pretty senseless... i did some calculations before and checked how the pixel clock i can provide... and it said excatly this... but i was hoping i did a mistake...

so it's really time to change the cpu... that atmel 89c51ed2 even with 60 mhz is that slow unbevieable... it has just 5 mips with 60 mhz !... even the pic or atmel avr is faster... that avr with 20 mhz has 20mips... anyway... just fuck

so a bit mixed emotions ...a bit frustrating the cpu is too slow... but anyway the idea works so far... that's cool...but the idea is not lost... i will do it again with the sharc dsp... that will be fast enough for sure...

He's putting a Sharc DSP in there programmed as a video chip

This Ultra 303 gets cooler by the minute !