[sdiy] Kenton TB-303 sockets schematic?
Richie Burnett
rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk
Mon Apr 10 21:37:26 CEST 2023
The TB-303 that I got second-hand many years ago has a set of 3.5mm jack
sockets along the back of the enclosure marked SLIDE, ACCENT, FILTER, GATE
and CV. I believe these are a mod for use with a Kenton MIDI-to-CV
interface?
Does anyone know the details of how these sockets connect into the rest of
the TB-303 schematic? Last time I had the 303 open to replace the tact
switches I noticed that there were various resistors and transistors inside
bits of heat-shrink tubing soldered to the copper side of the PCB. I'm
trying to find a schematic of the connections for a couple of reasons:
1. I want to know how to fix them if a wire should fall off at some time in
the future.
2. I'd like to make a judgement on whether these mods affect the sound in
any way compared to a standard production TB-303, even when nothing is
connected to the jack sockets.
Before anyone says "open it up and trace out what wires go where", I had
thought of that! I'm not being lazy, I'm just trying to minimise the number
of times I open up the unit as the old plastic enclosure and PCBs are quite
fragile. There's also the risk of human error if I trace out the
connections vs working from a schematic if one exists somewhere?
Has anyone ever fitted one of these kits? It looks like Kenton Electronics
still do them...
https://kentonuk.com/product/roland-tb-303/
...but the PDF docs at the bottom of that page don't tell you how to install
the kit.
-Richie,
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