Propellerheads RB-338 Rebirth 2.0 w.
"SHotQ JazzMachine"-modification

The Swedish-made software ReBirth has deservingly become a great success during the last years. This software emulation of old Roland machines (two TB-303s, a TR-808 and a TR-909) was introduced at the exact right time, when these units were at the peak of their popularity and sold at astronomical prices. Since then, thousands of songs (usually of the techno or tramce kind) has been produced with ReBirth.

For us, ReBirth's software emulations of the 303 are rather pointless. Though lifelike and good sounding, they don't allow real time playing and are pretty annoying to program. Still, drum machines are always useful, and even though we consider sampled sounds anti-ideological as a rule, they can be rather handy. We used the first version or ReBirth in "Limehouse Blues" already, and the throbbing latin rhythms in "Caravan" are ReBirth 2.0.

However, since we alwasy want to be special we created our own "mod" - a modification of ReBirth with new graphics and drum sounds, especially suited for transistor jazz. This can be heard on "Topzy", "Nacht und Tag" and probably other future productions.

- Sound example

 

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