It’s a basic function of the 303 sequencer - rest and tie. Rest is easy, you just delete notes. Tie ‘ties’ 2 notes together to make a longer note. It’s an absolutely essential function to creating real 303 grooves - otherwise you have all the notes the same length, 16ths or whatever.
I can’t believe that Arturia, having said its a faithful recreation down to the circuits etc etc have missed this function out but I’ve looked through the manual and youtube turorials and can’t see how its done anywhere. Can anyone enlighten me please?
If this is not possible then it makes this thing, sadly, a joke. And I would be open-mouthed at Arturia’s decision (it must have been a decision) not to implement it.
Hi @nickbaba. Welcome to the community.
Afaik SLIDE steps was used to “TIE” notes. On reissues i’ve seen Slide as named slide/ tie, but’s it’s the same.
It’s a bit tricky and may require some practice to use.
Maybe so, but that’s not the same thing. Programming the 303 sequencer you have the option to tie notes with or without slide.
How Arturia can claim this is a meticulous reproduction and not include this is beyond me… it’s like they don’t even understand the synth they are modelling. It’s a huge part of the groove of 303 riffs.
Of course it doesn’t sound nearly as good as the real thing, but that’s to be expected. But not reproducing the basic programming, when you’re shouting about making a faithful recreation, is just dumb.
Arturia please include this in future updates!
Should be pretty simple to implement in the sequencer - click and drag between adjacent notes to tie them legato style?
Have you tried to use the SLIDE checkbox in the sequencer ?
Here the D note duration is 5 steps.
Ah OK I see - I’ll check it out thanks!
Knew there had to be a way!
It works! Thanks for this - it was a bit counterintuitive.
Sorry Arturia - looks like I was the dumb one after all lol
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