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The Crow Hill Company has announced the latest entry into its Vaults line of free and accessible virtual instruments. An homage to the revered Roland TB-303 Bass Line, Acid Synth brings the sounds of a failed synth bass unit that defined its own genre of music.
Helpfully, for the benefit of anyone not already in the know, The Crow Hill Company’s Theo Le Derf picks up what is an incredible story in itself: “DJ Pierre and his band called Phuture found a used TB-303 in a music shop in Chicago for a bargain price. They started experimenting with the bass sequencer and a drum machine while playing about randomly with the filter and resonance knobs. The sound they produced was so unique and, frankly, weird that they decided to commit the jam session to tape.
With the release of this experiment on Trax Records in 1987, they unwittingly birthed a new genre: Acid House. This slimy, hypnotic, subversive sound subsequently built a cultural movement, and was the soundtrack to many illegal warehouse parties of the late Eighties — all of this from a tiny synth that was used ‘incorrectly’.”
Acid Synth is free to download via The Crow Hill App for Windows and Mac.
More information: The Crow Hill Company
