Trend price : 100€
Rackmount module based on a samples wavetable: sounds are oriented to latin music, tejano,salsa, latin-jazz, mariachi, merengue, or afro-cuban.
Overview
RACKMOUNT (weight: 3,1 Kg / dimensions: 4,5 x 48,26 x 21,59 cm) 1 unit. Main panel features 5 buttons, a 2 X 16 lines backlit display, 1 single knob for volume and a data wheel encoder.
Back panel terminal connectors:
- Midi interface
- main outs
- 4 aux outs
Voice
32 voices of polyphony,
a basic voice is composed by 1 or 2 samples "oscillators" Primary and Secondary Instruments. Each instruments have individual wave parameters:
- volume / paning
- pitch tuning coarse and fine
- zone assign
- chorus mode (thicker sound)
- monophonic mode with variable portamento rat
Wavetable
the non-expandable 8 MB ROM contains 297 samples coded at 16 bits at 39 kHz frequency rate. Various sounds like percussions, piano, brasses, hits and more. However, the ROM contains also basic waves for some eletronic sounds in addition with filter and LFO section.
Performance up to 16 parts
Filter
a single resonant digital filter for both primary and secondary. There are 2 kinds of filter out of 17 :
- standard :
3 lowpasses, 2 highpasses and 2 bandpasses
- Z-planes : 10 kinds derived from MORPHEUS including sweep, vocal formant and phase
LFO
2 interchangeable delayed digital modulators (5 shapes: triangle, square, random, sine and saw) with variable amount and "variance" factor (modulation de-sync). Matrix can be assigned to a special matrix modulation system based on sources and destinatio
Envelope
- primary EG: ADSR with 2 times
- secondary
EG: same as primary
- AUX EG: same as primary :
Sequencer
the BEAT SEQUENCER a kind of groove arranger based on 100 beat presets with possible real-time transpose
Memory
- 384ROM patches
- 256 RAM slots
Audio demo:
Video Clip:
Review
OK: -cheap- quite rare-matrix modulation
NOT : -edit -obsolete sample set
"Time has passed for many romplers... unless you're are into latino music, this rack won't be so useful- anyway EMU samples are still some of the bests."
Text , review, special demos copyright polynominal.com / Eric Pochesci