[sdiy] TR909 clone PCB pictures

[Colin Fraser]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl 
> [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of R at F
> Sent: 08 January 2002 20:05
> To: Synth-List
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] TR909 clone PCB pictures
> 
> Wow, very interesting!! But how come, that Novation is able to use the
> sampled 909-sounds in their Drumstation and Jomox in their 
> XBase 09...

Maybe they licensed the sounds from Roland, or were just lucky to escape
the Roland legal department's attention.
Maybe Roland have a license deal with someone for exclusive use in a
soft-synth of the 909 sounds.
One obvious candidate springs to mind...

> And I remember the TBS-303, which was a very good 
> 303-clone... But then it
> was discontinued because there was trouble with Roland (as I 
> heard).

Doubt it - there are no patents on the 303. Maybe it was just trademark
infringement on the tb303 name ?
But that's easily avoided.

Colin f