Email from TeeBee owners.

 

From: iain gill
Subject: Re: teebee
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001
 my teebee was a bit noisy when i used it with the incorrect power supply, but it has cleaned up now. what a kick ass machine !!! already the teebee has transformed the acid techno i am making - so much so that my friend Ron, who i make acid techno with, would like to buy one. he happens to be visiting amsterdam on a holiday next month, and would like to know if he could visit you and buy a teebee, to save on the postage costs. i know that you said you have stopped making them, do you still have any left for sale ?? if you do, could you let me know, as we would like to buy another - as they are so good, and you are stopping making them, so now is our only chance !!! also, do you have any plans for making any other synthesisers ??? if you do, please let me know !!! thank you again, my friend, iain

From: Devon Hughes
Subject: THANK YOU!
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:36:16 -0800
Hi there! My name is Devon and I'm from Los Angeles, CA. I just bought your TeeBee through the American distributor. I am more than satisfied with your creation! Not only is the sound great, but the extra features and workmanship are superb! I hope your business is going good, because this is one of the highest quality musical products available, it is definately worth it! Keep up the good work! I'm so happy that you are actually making a real clone. People who tell me that RB-338 sounds the same can go to hell!! Nothing comes closer than the TeeBee. Thanks again! Sincerely, Devon Hughes
From: Greedo Guru
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:51:16 -0000
Hi Guys, Andrew Dewsall here from London just a short message to say thank you very much for repairing my Tee Bee you have made me a very happy man. Thanks also for the record I liked it, are they your tunes? You have made this whole experience totally painless and I really appreciate it. I hope to get on with writing some acid tunes with your great machine straight away now I have it back. Now here is something you can put on your web site if you wish, "Thanks for inventing a wonderful piece of Tech. the Tee Bee 303 is a truly amazing synth and after trying most of the 303 emulators yours is by far and away the best. But not only has Syntecno created a superb synth but your customer service is unparalled with any company I know. Id like to add the Ring Mod function is brilliant. Thanks again.
Andrew
From: Phil Kirkman
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000. Robbie, The TeeBee is superb - lovely authentic sounds, great construction, just a brilliant instrument all round. I'm really impressed with it, Thanks, Phil
From: Andreas Lindholm
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 07:39:38 +0100 Thank you, the information was enough. The Teebee fits in nicely and it is sturdily built and it sounds great, this is one of the best machines I have bought! regards /Andreas Lindholm Sweden
From: Dave Homepage : Auralscape
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 15:35:22 -0800 I received the teebee _very_quickly after ordering it. Straight out of the box this little box turned out to be better than I could ever hope for: it is planet phat!! The teebee is beefier and has a stronger tone than any other 303 emulation i've heard and is by far the synth of choice for the serious electronic music experience. The CV/Gates make my entire rig fit together perfectly and there is nothing that can be said to detract from the teebee's unique sound, character, and charm. Definately a superb piece of engineering! I started laying down traxx from the moment it arrived and the ring mod is wikkid! -David, http://auralscape.net
From: Jeff
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 23:45:15 EST This is jeff boodey for the United states. i got my teebee today, i just ordered it last week, the TeeBee got to me faster thats great. Also would the aggressiveness screw be set all the way left for the normal setting or in the middle or where ? i want to mess with it but want to be able to know where to return the normal value back to other than that, I JUST LOVE THIS MACHINE, its the best sounding unit i've ever played !!
From: Sunao Inami Homepage : Cavestudio
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 22:09:45 +0900 Hi Robert, Today I got Tee Bee Mark III! Thanks so much, I am a 1st user of Tee Bee Mark III in Japan! I love the sounds, ring wave and ext audio in is very cool! Sure it have perfect 303 sounds and great MIDI details! I love yellow face.
From: Jeremy M. Johnson
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:53:42 -0500 (EST) Hey Rob, You really have a great product-- I've recommended it highly to several people. I did a live performance not too long ago and one of the little raver trainspotters rushed up too me afterwards begging to see a "real 303 for the first time." So, she's working great. Take care, jeremy johnson.
From: Dave Ward
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:08:23 PDT Hello, robert. thank you for following up on the order. not a single company i've bought gear from has ever done that! The teebee is really incredible! you have done a superb job of recreating as well as improving on the original 303 design. the manual was a little unclear about a few minor details, but overall, everything worked out very well. i received it in just about a week and nothing was damaged during shipment. the korg filter is such a perfect addition to the package. i use it the most. with a little distorsion, it's such a cool sound.... i love the big front panel knobs. they make tweaking very easy. and they feel so sturdy. the overall construction is great. i don't know about the yellow though :) how about a cool blue or something? i will send you some tracks once my new cd comes out... Dave Ward
From: Rob Brzykcy also made a very nice Real Audio Track !!!
From: cyborg0@GlobalEyes.net Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 17:57:09 -0500 Subject: Filter FM, filter OD, accent, etc.. WOW! i got all these mods working, and, i have to tell you, its a whole new world! Amazing..Im sending you a clip (about 250k) realaudio of a track i threw together to give you an idea of what all this does.. Its not the *best* quality, but its good enough to show you what it does. Thanks again, Rob Brzykcy
From: Mark
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 14:09:48 +0200 Subject: The Teebee has landed... Hello Robert! Mark from South Africa here again! Thank you very much, the Teebee arrived safely, and I have now had a few days to play with it... Well, it's totally incredible! The ring modulator makes all the world of difference too! I am totally happy, and I'll be off to demonstrate it to some shops. Well, thanks again! Take care, Your friend, Mark......
From: Nicolas Diaz also made a very nice Real Audio Track !!!
Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 22:30:49 +0200 Subject: email from Nicolas Listen up you mentally distorted sons of your mothers, if you really need some sort of potential sonic mayhem, then you certainly need a TeeBee mark 3 ! I hooked the "yellow one" to my red Boss Xtortion pedal, and it rumbled like an earthquake. Instant 303 gratification. Just add a little FX and let the magic chemistry flow thru your analogue vains... THIS IS the ultimate psycho Bill Gates plug and play, MIDI bassliner for your music or whatever noise you are shitting out of your ugly braincells. Come to Amsterdam and and see for yourselves why genius Robbie needs a new haircut ! (hehe) - GRRRRRWwoOOAAHWaAUUuuhhh Nicolas Diaz - DNA Independent Recordings NL
From: SithLord98
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 21:30:11 EDT Subject: Re: ordering a TeeBee Aloha, I received my TeeBee the other day and I love it! It sounds great and works fine with my sequencer. I wired it through my roommate's guitar distortion pedal, and it screams!! Thank you so much for such a great machine. Cheers, Charles Shackford
From: Alejandro
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 00:21:29 -0300 Subject: Re: TeeBee 303 purchase I received it yesterday, and I tested it today. Well, how can I describe it...
AMAZING!
It is one of the best modules I ever played with. I am particulary fascinated with the analog input, and the ring modulator. It will surely be an important part in my future productions. Best regards
From: T. Garcia
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:58:57 -0500 Subject: Re: Tracking # ??? Man, This thing is amazing !!!! I really love the ring modulator. Robert you are the man !!!! I can't wait to see what you come up with next. I know with all the money you are making off this thing you have to be working on a new piece of gear. I hope. Well, I already used it in a track. Please send me an address where I can send you some Tweak! Records. The new one i used it on is called "Rock the House" by togar303 (Robbie 303-we must be brothers:) I also did a live set at the winter music conference in Miami Beach. I tweaked the hell out of that thing and at the end of the set at least 3 people came up to see what the hell I was playing with. They could not believe there eyes. Thank you very much !!!
From: Plasmalamp
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 21:55:19 -0400 Subject: TeeBee arrived! Hi robert, I just recieved my TeeBee today and I just wanted to tell you that it is absolutely fantastic! I knew that it would sound good ( I had already heard it ) but is one of the most solidly contructed pieces of kit I own, the knobs are excellent and the CV/Gates work great, I am very very impressed! And it sounds better than I had hoped for. Thank you for putting the time and effort to get it right. Paul
From: Darius Mazurovski
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 14:47:48 +-200 Subject: few words from new TeeBee owner ... Yesterday I finally received a box with cool yellow surprise inside. Immediately hooked up and ... Well, I am definitely not original TB 303 freak or techno, acid or house composer (fact is I even don't know what kind of sounds these words cover). My cup of tea is experimental, avant-garde music, strange collages, dirty noises and sometimes hypnotic throbbing basslines. That's the answer why I need TeeBee. My rig includes several synths (mostly analog) and samplers but it doesn't make sense to compare TeeBee with the others. This machine is exactly what I expected before, has virtually the same sound as TB 303 and much, much more, so is easy to understand why I like this box. Of course it is always a question of time to catch the soul of the instrument and find perfect place (in musical sense) for sounds.
Conclusion : You want good cooking - go to Chinese restaurant, You want analog (303 like) "top of its class" basses - buy a TeeBee (copyrights for this slogan owned by me, ha, ha !).OK, OK I am going to finish it. Best Regards, keep the right tune Robert ,Dariusz Mazurowski (aka Stone Dancer)
From: William
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 16:47:48 -0400 Subject: Re: interest in the teebee mark III. Thanks for the teebee! i am exceedingly pleased with it. the construction is sturdy, the signal to noise ratio is very high, the features are impressive and it sounds excellent. In my opinion the filter has a slightly softer and warmer sound than the 303, but otherwise i couldn't tell. That kind of sound works better for me anyway. I really like the effect of having the ring mod slightly detuned...it sounds really warm and voice-like. That kind of novel sound makes the teebee much more than a 303 clone. The fact that you aren't limited to a three octave range is a big plus too. There are no sequencing limitations (besides my sequencer) and i like the fact that i can use it like a monophonic synth then break into a 303ish pattern. the slide is more articulate than the 303's (besides a lot easier to program). I must say that i'm glad i never bought a 303...the teebee is much better suited for my purposes (programming trance in which it is effectual to be able to use either melodic phrases or repetitive patterns) and i probably could have bought at least 2 teebees for what i would have spent on a 303, a sync box/midi-CV converter. do you have any plans for any other synths? Thanks, and best wishes, will
From: mark mian
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 14:32:04 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Got the TeeBee! Hello Robert, We received our Teebee about two weeks ago -- thank you for the prompt delivery. It is an excellent machine -- the sounds are superb and we are very happy with it.
From: BH
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 23:27:31 -0700 Subject: Tee Bee is finally here!!! Hi Robert,I 'll try to say it in a word.....IT 'S FANTASTIC!!!! I won't tell you about the fatness of the sound or the aggressivness of the filter or the power of the rich implementation because I think you know it,I just want to tell you that ,following your advices, I made a pattern that I only could dream of before!!!And I "loop" it for hours never getting tired!!!(...also because I was busy with the controllers). THANK YOU ROBERT AND CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Best regards,Gabriele Raccanelli.
From: Jonas Sjöström
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 14:45:27 -0400 Subject: Oh my god! I got my Teebee a couple of days ago, and I am speechless. I mean I have heard analogue synths before because thats what I consider a synth, but this one was really amazing in one way it beat my minmoog cause of the sharpness and the slide. I just want to say thank you for building this great fatsounding synth.
(who needs a tb303) Best regards Jonas Sjöström
From: Nick Rapattoni
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 14:22:23 -0700 Subject: My new TeeBee Last night I hooked up the TeeBee for the first time.....I made a 2 bar sequence with a glide and a few accents in it and looped it. I've never heard an instrument that sounded so much like the original TB303.....the thing is perfect! I don't know why anyone would want to pay tons of money to have an original 303....since the TeeBee is MIDI it allows for much more creativity and flexibility.....the sound is raw...liquid....and very pleasing to the ear.....try it with a Novation Drum Station.....it sounds excellent. Thanks again, I'm very pleased! Nick Rapattoni
From: Matthias Steiner
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 03:34:34 -0400 Subject: TeeBee. Last week, a customer told me, the Sound of the Original 303 would be much better than the TeeBee. So we compared it together by making the same Pattern on both. With finding the same adjustements, the customer said, it still would sound different. But with a blind Test, he couldn't tell me anymore wich one is 'the one'!. I found it interesting how hard it is to make them belief there can be something else than a TB303 !
From: Marc Naninck
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 97 16:41:21 +0100 Subject: TeeBee Sounds were really nice and I imagined a real 303 pretty much would sound the same. After a few weeks I ran into a 606, which of course I could sync-24 via the TeeBee. Worked very fine, too. The same went for an Arp-Axxe, which I hooked up via one of those four independant fine MIDI-to-CV/Gate converters. But then, I got lucky and found myself an original silver screamer with those nice rounded numbers '303' on it.... and guess what.... The TeeBee really sounds EXACTLY the same!!!! Just do not overdo the self-oscillation of Teebee's filter (keep the resonance under 90% and don't fuck up the agressiveness) and no one can tell you the difference between a real 303 and the TeeBee!!! Greetz, |\/|arc
From: Mark Worsdall
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:10:14 +0000 Subject: First 2 tracks with U know what. WOW, Shit, Fuuuuuck. Yep, you got it! You designed it, and sorry it will be twenty years before your name is legend, even if you die.
From: Jayson
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 11:32:46 -0500 Subject: It is alive! Robert, What a piece of art! I just got my Mark II and it rules. I am ready to put this baby through the acid test. I haven't told any of my friends I got it because I'm not ready to share! I just got a find a way to bring it to work????? Thanks...
From: Sebastian
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 23:28:17 +0100 (MET) Subject: Syntecno Reparatur! Hallo Robert! Der Syntecno ist heute angekommen. Vielen Dank für die schnelle Reparatur. Von dem Service können sich einige 'große' Synthifirmen eine Scheibe abschneiden!
Ciao, Sebastian
From: Stas Ivanc
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 96 13:54:00 +0100 I played with my TeeBee for the first time yesterday and it was great! The sound is terriffic! All those whoops and wobbles, yipe! Well, I think it'll take me some time to fully understand and operate the TeeBee. And I thought I know something about midi and stuff... The knobs are magnificent! I just love them. Robert, thanks again for your TeeBee and I'll email you soon again. When I'll have some record I'll send it to you.
From: José SogoFlores (A summary of his e-mail. Had to invite him for dinner in return for this review.)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 03:03:14 GMT A beautiful synth. The sound is very impressive. I have a Minimoog too and some digital synths, and now I can really say that I understand the people who love analog synths and want to work only with analog machines. The future is digital but I hope the future digital synths will sound as good as the old analog ones. The TeeBee sounds very different from all my other instruments. The sound is warm, sometimes aggressive and very fat, (if you think it has only one oscillator, the sound is very very fat) and the ring-modulator makes the TeeBee 50% better. It sounds very different from the saw and square waveforms, and the detune capabilities make the sound dramatic. Sure is, the TeeBee sounds just as you have heard in so many disco-tecno-dance recordings. The original 303 wouldn't allow me to control a Doepfer A-100 modular system, as the TeeBee will make for me someday. I think you give a lot for the money. The TeeBee is a unexpensive synth with a very rich sound.
From: Mr 'Zap' Andersson Homepage : Zap homepage.
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 96 21:04:17 -0500 TeeBee is the best. Undoubtely. After playing with it as a '303' for a couple of hours,
I then turned into ringmod. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH! INSTANT GOA HEAVEN!
God what a nice goa-trance sound! Increadible!
From: CLARKL32@anz.com
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 08:43:00 +1100 Robert,WICKED BOX MAN! Cannot say how impressed at the sound of that thing I am...
It's kinda fatter and funkier though... but this is a good thing... and the ring modulator.. I think I just wet my pants...
Absolutely wicked... congrats.. Peace/Love/303, Leigh
From: dh52493@goodnet.com
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 12:02:59 -0700 Robert...got the mark II yesterday,
It sounds great (no surprise there) I especially like the ring mod and the aggressiveness paramaters.
The ring mod gives it an almost distorted harthouse sound, and I like being able to adjust the range
on the VCF. Finally the analog in seems to work better than before.
Thanks! chris.
From: vas@lglobal.com
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 17:35:43 -0500
Hi, Finally I got my TeeBee : I heard it, amazing sound. Thanks for the Advice to wait 2 weeks. The Yellow color stands perfect on my rack. And This Audio Input is just what I needed. Best regards, Vas
From: bobo@vortex.is
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 07:35:00 +0000 Subject: The best bass liner in Iceland.
Hello, sorry, my letter is pritty late. The TeeBee is here and it is working well. The sound is perfect and the controlers are to. This is exactly the thing I was looking for. It is no problem to let it do every thing I want it to. On the scale 1 to 10, it will get 10, and my name is Bjossi not Bolli ( he is my brother) Thanx. Later.
From: dh52493@goodnet.com
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 11:54:48 -0600 Hi Robert, got the syntecno yesterday... sounds good...Putting on the finishing touches today on a killer new track that uses it. Liked your record... (I was surprised there was no 303 sound in it) A good friend of mine is also hyped on the syntecno now and he wants one too.His name is Phil and he asked me to email you and check if he sent you 760 netherland guilders to the same address if he could get one too. So I'm checking to see if thats ok or if you've found a us distributor yet. Thanks chris
From: arduous@mcs.net Homepage : Arduous homepage.
Robert, Thank you so much for coordinating getting the TeeBee to me. I received it today and it is killer! I had a 13.5V DC p/s laying around. Is this okay to use? Please reply. It seems to be working okay, but the plug is a little loose in the jack. Anyway, I know what I will be doing tonight... Playing with the TeeBee! Take Care and thanks again! Matt
From: Throatsong@aol.com
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 14:52:26 -0400 Hello, I received my Tee Bee today. Hooked it up and it sounds really cool. I have been slowy learning how to program it and I am making progress. I have questions though.. I can't figure out how to use the CV/Gate controllers with my to old analog synths... I have a Moog Rogue and a Korg MS10. How do I hook up the cables for these two units? I can't make it work at all. I know it will work but I don't know haw.. HELP. OK, I am looking forward to hearing form you... THANKS ! ! !