Behringer TD-3 Tutorial - Advanced ( Note, Tie, Rest, Accent, Slide interaction )

If you are already comfortable sequencing your Behringer TD-3 but want true enlightenment this tutorial is for you
If you want to just start to sequence your 303, my video here that will get you up and going and ready for this video.
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In my last video Joolz Forrest commented I should have went into more detail about how the interactions and priorities work, so here it is. ( stealing , priority )
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Is this exactly the same as it is on the Roland 303 ? I don't have one to try but if you do let us know.

[@yarnf]

thanks man! every electronic musician should know this part of our heritage

[@avrilcadabra]

Couldn't agree more!

[@stefanoskollias]

That s what I needed.. Really helpful, to the point, no bla, bla.. My biggest question was the rests and you enlighted me..

[@avrilcadabra]

Thanks glad it made sense!

[@Mike-ue8vy]

Thanks for the video, I never understood this and so stop playing with my TD3. You've brought me back!

[@hizumi1945]

I am Japanese. My grandson is a fan of yours🎵. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your videos (^_^)/.

[@funkyneil2000]

Very useful. I couldn't work out what the rests and ties were doing to the sequence. Thanks very much.

[@avrilcadabra]

Also if you slide a non accented note onto an accented note the accent is ignored. For accents and slides to work together they need to be on the same note.

[@LouisSerieusement]

hello, are you sure about it ? it's a classic acid trick, and a cool one since you cannot do it via midi. you can even do it on the same note and burry an accent halfway through the note. (it works on my TD3-MO and all my other acid clones.) step 1 = C + slide step 2 = C + Accent now push decay and accent to the max, you will hear it. if you decrease decay and accend it disappears

[@brunocpimenta]

6:13 HAHAHAHAH : D Dude... this tutorial was PERFECT. I bought mine just yesterday and was trying logicaly test variations to understand how it works. Didnt thought about the whole stacking stuff. Your notations along the vid were also perfect. You basicaly just brought vision to the blind! THX

[@avrilcadabra]

geeze you dived straight into the deep end doing this stuff on day 1! good work

[@meltingwax3520]

Funnily enough I worked the stack bit out today after getting confused trying to programme a baseline I did on bass guitar. This was really useful though as I didn't have a clue what the tie function actually did.

[@Sumguy21]

The way I've been thinking of it is as two independent lists of pitches and tempos and every time you hit "STEP" in Tempo mode, you are playing the next note in the list. This did clarify that slide goes on the note you're sliding FROM, not the note you're sliding TO.

[@ridgerider7402]

Amazing stuff! Week two for me, been making some simple patterns, next step for me is to learn this exact content. You have explained this perfectly. Thankyou so much for taking the time to make these tutorials.

[@osvos3278]

Nice one, really well explained and demonstrated. I love the TD3 and just got a MO but the sequencer has always been a bit pot luck. This has just unravelled why certain things happen... cheers!

[@00kieper]

I wished, I had this Video in the beginning of my TD-3. Keep on your nice work. I wait for the next tut :)

[@avrilcadabra]

Thanks Michael, me too. it's a confusing little thing.

[@Yotunen]

Me and friends have a silver td to another friend of ours as a present. Lo and behold, not a week passed before i got one for myself. Acid bath and blood sprinklers!

[@avrilcadabra]

Watch out for Deacon Frost!

[@ryananthony4840]

Thanks for saving me so much trial and error time!!! If I wanna write something elaborate I think I'll plan it out on my keyboard first, write it down, then go to the 303.... PS: Can't wait to get my yellow RD-6.... I have the red TD 3, gonna be ketchup and mustard on acid lol.....

[@avrilcadabra]

I should probably get an rd6. Certainly don't need one but just fun no doubt. Love the td-3. No worries. I figured this out with trial error. Afterwards I had read rolands explanation in the 303 manual but Roland is hard to understand at the best of times. Definitely hard to write and elaborate pattern you have in your head

[@ryananthony4840]

@@avrilcadabra sheeeet..... You should see the book that came with my Roland JD-800 synth... Thick as a telephone book, then I realized it was only book 2!!! I didn't even get the first book!!!😂😂😂😬😳😖 lol

[@ryananthony4840]

@@avrilcadabra this synth has 59 faders, about 40 buttons, several knobs..... 🙄🙄😵😵 Lmao 😂😂

[@ryananthony4840]

UPDATE: I got tired of waiting for the RD-6, so I bought a TR-8 with the 7x7 expansion kit and am soooo glad I did!! Came with the 808, 909, a tricked up 808, the 707, 727, AND the 606!!! It's also an audio interface 😉😉

[@ThinkerThunker]

Hey AC, this tutorial answered all I was asking in your other TD-3 tutorial, where I was wondering how the sequencer of the TD-3 compared to my Arturia Minibrute 2S. Watching this tutorial helped me see that the MB2S doesn't have a "Slide," but does have a "Tie" which behaves like the "Slide" on the TD-3, where it ties to the note after it. If I want to do a tie, extending the note before it, I just have to have a series of the same note all Tied together. (If that makes sense.) The biggest problem I was having was entering "Rests." Which you say here are destructive on the TD-3 in that a Rest isn't just a skipped note like it would be on the MB2S. But here you say a Rest on the TD-3 actually pushes the last note off the stack. Which was throwing my whole "Blade Blood Rave" pattern off. The good news is, I was able to get the Blood Rave programmed into the MB2S and it sounds great! Thanks again for your help.

[@avrilcadabra]

Hey sorry for the late reply, youtube is throwing a bunch of missed comments at me last few days. Glad you figured out the blood rave pattern, I had the same problem before I got the td-3 I was trying to put the exact 303 pattern into my digitakt without understanding how the 303 sequencer worked, so it just was not sounding right until I changed some things around.

[@christianhemker3817]

Thanks, this really cleared things up for me.

[@patfarnell517]

Again, amazing thanks so much for saving me going back to the shops thinking it was faulty. I was trying to self oscillate the filter and use the normal notes as kicks and accent as a snare or tom and due to putting in rests I was pushing the accented notes out! I didnt realise it worked like a stack and within 3 minutes you have solved the confusion. I think the best thing to do for me now is record in these drum sounds and program them with a DAW

[@avrilcadabra]

Drums! I'd like to hear that. This took a fair amount of effort to figure out. You are right there becomes a point when programming something preplanned into the td3/303 that involves a lot of ties and rests becomes too complicated. I'm convinced most if not all legendary 303 patterns (like confusion) were randomly generated or half luck. I'd suggest your try programming your drum pattern into a sequencer and controlling the td3 via midi, or behringer has an a td3 app that lets you edit onboard patterns in a piano roll

[@harmlesscreationsofthegree1248]

Thanks for this, saved me a whole lot of experimentation!

[@tvmaskava]

love the sequencer

[@joshuachristensen771]

Thanks for leaving such a helpful video. This can be a really difficult instrument to master.

[@carnmarth334]

Very nicely done.

[@laffikdcaps]

Thanks for the vid. It settled me in right convictions about how the Ties and Rests work. I used to think it depends on some Insert and Overwrite modes. Did you notice that sequence can not start from Rest when TD-3 are paired? When TD-3 with such sequence dictates tempo to the pair, pair sometimes loses synchronization. It doesn't happen when tempo is dictated to the pair by i. e. RD-8.

[@avrilcadabra]

I did not notice that. Interesting!

[@bethlydi_music]

this was just what i needed, thanks!

[@pieronexus4709]

LIFO! Thank you, really nice vid.

[@danfan4707]

That thing is a beast!

[@asskickerfoo]

Brilliant! Thank you

[@akirakosaintjust]

Thank you! That was really helpful!

[@chrisbran6739]

Great !

[@daltonbrandwene5776]

Thanks dude this helped me a lot :)

[@paulantoni1046]

Excellent video well done : )

[@PatrickDiAngelo]

Very nice explanation, etc. Well done man....\\

[@mbrombert]

Fantastic stuff.

[@cyrilhalouna]

THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO IT WAS VERY HELPFULL

[@davidszekely1770]

Fantastic video!

[@De_Bars_Gullible_Travels]

Yes,Yes,Yes!!!! Superb!!!! Mucho Grassy Arse sir!!! 👍🇮🇪

[@Forever.Procrastinating]

Golden! Thanks dude!

[@EricJungeMusic]

great audio and tutorial!

[@hut48]

Great vid, super helpful!

[@DEEP_PRACTICE]

Great video, thanks! 👊

[@mijaba]

can all of these functions be done with midi? I'd love to see a tutorial on another sequencer making acid with the TD-3 as the voice. accents, rests and slides-- the works. Great tut!

[@avrilcadabra]

I know I answered on Facebook but for anyone else reading here. Yes it has great midi implementation. I go over how to do slides and accents via midi in the digitakt + td3 midi video ( applies to any sequencer just easy to show on the digitakt )

[@westerncivilization]

Excellent

[@OldPsytrance]

Thanks man very help

[@thefoxfamily341]

Thanks.. It's little bit rocket science but wen u practice little bit more with this beast. U can flight to the moon... 😍

[@avrilcadabra]

I read the whole roland 303 manual recently. Makes you wonder if any of the great acid lines were intentionally written

[@AxisChemicals]

@@avrilcadabra yesss that's why it's called an error generator too I think, cause you have somthng in your mind that you can rarely re-translate and give you anything else, different but no less as good or better that you thought ! In fact it is an infernal unpredictable machine !

[@fredericksirucka1071]

Thanx for the demo Fred(E)ricK😮

[@hannsixer]

Thank you mate!!!

[@Жан.джазмен]

Thank you!

[@eleanorgiovanni]

Thanks! so helpful

[@charlieorcharles]

These are amazing tutorials, thanks for sharing. Out of curiosity what are you using to view the waveform? Is that in a daw? On that note you can record through line in the Td3 right?

[@avrilcadabra]

Thanks Charles. I don't recall seeing a waveform. I did put a one on with a video editor on a neutron video and my dirtywave m8 videos show the inbuilt oscilloscope but other than that I am not sure what you mean. You can use the filter in port on the td3 but it does go through the filter and distortion etc

[@charlieorcharles]

@@avrilcadabra ahhh that makes sense, if i recall at one point throughout the vid you were mentioning a shift in the waveforms! or yes your right it could have been another vid, i sorted binged watched a few of yours :) Thanks again this is amazing content

[@manuosfp]

Nice, thanks!

[@arjanpetersen]

Hi how can I alter the Length of a pattern? For example if I want a polymeter

[@avrilcadabra]

when you enter the steps, just set it to 15 if your other patterns are 16 etc

[@AudioAddicted949]

Hey, im not able to go thru each step to choose accent,up,down,slide. The only thing i have done is set it to midi in. Changing to internal do not make an difference. Also the td 3 is set to Pattern Write. Can anybody help?

[@Airgirl881]

Why is it when I put in 4 steps and I put in CDEG, and when I press start it plays CCDD instead of CDEG ? :(

[@avrilcadabra]

If you check in pitch mode is it not showing the notes you entered?

[@Airgirl881]

@@avrilcadabrait shows notes but the notes I did Not put in , :/ maybe it is broken I’m starting to believe

[@avrilcadabra]

Might be worth hooking it up to its software. It will show the patterns on a piano roll and let you enter patterns this way. Then you will know for sure

[@moneypits]

Question for you… mine arrived today and I’ve been trying to replicate a TB-03 pattern. The problem I’ve found is the pattern needs to go up 2 octaves on f# - you’d press up twice - but on the Behringer I will only go up or down one. Very annoying. Have you found a way/hack around this? Great video too btw, answered some old questions 👊🏼👍🏼

[@avrilcadabra]

I had someone else email asking about this. Nope you can't press twice to go up 2 octaves. I dont own a Roland 303 but I am certain it doesn't either.

[@moneypits]

@@avrilcadabra I think you’re right. Take a look at this and you’ll see what I mean. kzbin.info/www/bejne/apvZaZ6JdtNmiJo

[@avrilcadabra]

@@moneypits I am guessing they have just interpreted the pattern wrong or prodigy didn't make it on a real 303. Just double checked and the real 303 is also 3 octaves range. I have a friend with a real 303 and a tb-03 I will quiz him about it and get back to you

[@moneypits]

@@avrilcadabra No hurry, probably tying myself in pointless knots. Appreciate the help :)

[@avrilcadabra]

Friend double checked on his real 303. You can only press octave up or down once. Same as td-3

[@reardondearborn]

How do you get such a great sound out of the td3? What are you using to process? Cool video, thanks!

[@avrilcadabra]

I had a cheap behringer 1202 usb mixer , the model with fx, still have it actually, used to drench that td3 in just the reverb from that mixer. Id say thats all it was.

[@humbertomazin9202]

Hello! I have a question: is it possible to play slides during a sequence playback that are not already programed in said sequence by pressing the slide button?

[@avrilcadabra]

The slide button is also the bank select button. When a sequence is playing it selects Bank B and the accent button selects Bank A

[@peglapegla]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@grazstarr]

No one's gonna ask what effects are used to get that sound?? Okay, can I ask? What effects pedals are you using to beef up the sound? Cheers

[@avrilcadabra]

Been a minute since I made this video but 99% sure its just the hall reverb from the behringer qx1202usb mixer

[@grazstarr]

@@avrilcadabra thanks so much for the reply! :)

[@marcoagius6926]

Hi! Can you sync the alesis sr16 drum machine via midi with the TD3? Thanks

[@avrilcadabra]

Not sure the spec on sr16, if it can send clock via midi or 3.5mm it should be fine.

[@romanb2638]

Hi, thanks for this tut! so, there's no way to skip the first beat so that the sequence starts with say second or third one?

[@avrilcadabra]

I guess you would just program the notes in differently so the third one is the first one

[@romanb2638]

Avrilcadabra I meant the sequence starting at the 3d note (beat), skipping the first 2 )

[@albertogarcia1227]

What are the notes for that secuence?

[@toffchunks]

top thks ;-)

[@rikvinegar]

Very well done video sir

[@synthetic24]

The behaviour of the TD-3 is not the same as the TB-303. There is something missing with the slide and accent on the TD-3

[@avrilcadabra]

TD3 sounds pretty good though and is good value. real 303's are still around so if you want one you can have one.

[@vincentpriceofc]

I really hate NO MIC tus 😞

[@avrilcadabra]

Making the world a better place one comment at a time!

[@LoveMeBack]

Fuck! I pressed like and now it’s at 304.

[@le-berry]

I understand it's a matter of choices but the whole push out consequences are messing up the notes underneath It would have been way more easy and logical to just leave the note's and just ignore them with a tie or a rest not shifting the whole base of the underlying notes. But once you know how it responds it's a matter of getting used to it. The whole way of programming never made much sense and could be simple, effective and quicker. A feature of shifting pattern would be very taste too (like rebirth could) shifting a pattern left or right is so nice to have and you would think it's not that hard to implement. What's so hard as programming step by step both note and time, accent and slide and having a two digit lcd indicating step nr to keep track. I like the sound of these machines but hate the programming. I do appreciate tutorials like this but it's a great sign the machine isn't making sense and need attention. (sometimes OG is fucked up)

[@avrilcadabra]

Roland's gonna Roland, as they say. Always have the option to midi control the td-3 with something that has pattern shifting.

[@le-berry]

@@avrilcadabra I'm not complaining I have a cirklon.

[@simonhall5670]

So much reverb

[@avrilcadabra]

I love my reverbs

[@tvmaskava]

wtf is this sequencer?