Trend price : 300€
Rackmount edition of the K3 hybrid analog-digital synthesizer, a mix of PCM wavetable and additive synthesis.
Overview
(weight: 5.5 Kg) 2 units. Main panel features a segment display and 63 push buttons.
Back panel terminal connectors:
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Midi interface
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stereo out
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2 footswitch inputs
Voice
6 voices, a voice is composed by 2 DCO at 16' to 4' octaves with individual gain mix, pitch and balancing. Each DCO can be assigned to a different kind of synthesis between:
- subtractive PCM wavetable
- digital additive
Wavetable
32 Kb ROM contains 32 (+1 noise ) short waves coded at 8-bits split in 2 groups:
- PCM mathematically generated waves like square, sine and saw
- PCM acoustic transients including: piano, brass, organ, bell, guitar, plucked, string, trumpet, guitar, slap, hammered tine, metallic wave, digital harmonic, pipe, glocken, harpsichord and sax.
Additive
process sums sinusoidal waveforms at variable intensities from 32 harmonics out of 128 available. There are 31 intensity levels for each selected harmonic, this process is defined step by step.
Performance
- split: 2 sounds are assigned
- unison: stack voices with monophonic mode and portamento (no detune)
Filter
analog resonant filter is multimode:
- lowpass at 4 poles based on famous chip SSM 2044
- highpass
LFO
a single modulator (
triangle, saw, square, random and chromatic) and 3 destinations:
- pitch
- filter
- amplitude
Envelope
2 scaled analog EGs model ADSR:
- EG amplitude
- EG filter
Memory
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50 RAM slots
Audio demo:
Video Clip:
Review
OK: filter / mix PCM-additive
NOT : display-edit / limited additive / waveforms
"all good filters for great analog pads and resonant sweeps. The machine is pretty limited, but can be a surprise especially at good price"
Text , review, special demos copyright polynominal.com / Eric Pochesci