Trend price : 350€
Analog monophonic synthesizer made in UK with many interesting features. Reboot from previous model Mk1 from 1993 with totally new design and circuits design.
Overview
(weight: 4 Kg) 25 velocity keys with aftertouch. Main panel features a simple 3-segments display, 13 buttons, 24 knobs, 11 switches and 4 sliders
Back panel terminal connectors:
- headphones
- mono line out
- line input
- Midi interface
- USB interface
Voice
analog monophonic machine with subtractive synthesis. A voice is composed by 2 identical VCO oscillators + 1 sub oscillator + 1 white noise circuit.
Oscillator
VCO1: sine / triangle / pulse / saw
VCO2: same as VCO1
SUB: sine / pulse /square
Performance
- aftertouch can be assigned to VCF cutoff, LFO1 on VOC1 pitch and LFO 2 frequency.
- velocity can be assigned to amplitude EG or vibrato
-
legato mode with manual glide time or autoglide
- wheel can be assigned to LFO1 OSC1-2 pitch, filter cutoff and LFO2 filter
Filter
resonant analog filter at -2 /-4 poles and 3 modes:
-
lowpass
-
highpass
-
bandpass
LFO
2 digital modulators with 0-190 Hz frequency range:
LFO1: pitch
LFO2: pulse width / filter
Envelope
- EG1 is hardwired to amplitude
- EG2 can be assigned to VCO1-2 pitches, filter cutoff or pulse width
Arpeggiator
4 octaves range, swing, latch and 8 play directions
Memory
-
128 slots
- 32 arpeggio patterns
Audio demo:
Video Clip:
Review
OK: memory / price
NOT : no CV / edit interface / 2 octaves
" portable synth with many gimmicks: you can do almost anything to the sound! clever and sounds enough well and very affordable too"
Text , review, special demos copyright polynominal.com / Eric Pochesci