MFB Nanozwerg (2010)
"the General"

 

Compact analog monophonic synthesizer based on 1 oscillator structure + suboscillator with some nice modular-like CV .

Another affordable product by Manfred Fricke in Berlin.

DESKTOP MODULE main panel features 12 knobs and 9 push buttons.

Rear panel terminal connectors:
- CV gate inputs (0-10V range max)
- CV VCF input
- CV AMP input
- CV LFO input and output
- Midi interface

Front panel terminal connectors:
- main signal output
- signal process input

Power supply is a 9V external PSU DC

 

 

VOICE Atmel system mananes 1 voice based on a 1 single Oscillator VCO + a suboscilaltor with variable glide portamento time.

 

	VCO1	SUB
shapes	tri / saw / rectangle / impuse	rectangle / noise
variable rect width	yes	n/a
octaves	16’ / 8’/ 4’ / 2’	1 or 2 oct below VCO
tuning	yes 1 oct	n/a

Sawtooth on oscilloscope.

FILTER multimode resonant (up to self-oscilaltion) 2 poles filter with contour control - available modes are: lowpass, highpass, notch and bandpass. The VCF can be modulated by classic LFO or VCO VCO (filter-FM). Special cutoff fixed KEYFOLLOW mode in addition external signal can be filtered at line impedance like an external filter box (tip: sequencer mode allow a drone mode without EG engage for filtering).

 

LFO single modulator and 4 shapes (triangle, saw tooth, rectangle and Sample &
Hold) and 3 destinations:
- VCO pitch
- VCF cutoff
- VCO width

 

ENVELOPE double bipolar EGs with 4-segments classic ADSR.
- EG VCA
- EG VCF.
EG AMP can be set also to keyboard GATE mode or add a special ACCENT mode.

 

SEQUENCER simple 4 short internal sequencer with transpose mode.

 

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AUDIO DEMO

bass 1 bass 2 bass 8 bits sequence poor's man minimoog synt beeper bass detune? bouncy sound Commodore 64 sid Commando theme metal noise metal noise 2 a true modular squelchy sound resonance above internal sequencer another squelchy Synthesizer 1

Synth LFO Synth 2 FX: modem 56 bauds FX: alien Drum: analog test: external signal filtering test: VCO shapes test: VCO rectangle width test: suboscillator test: notch filter test: highpass test: lowpass test: bandpass test: adsr EG test: gllide mode test: LFO shapes test: external LFO

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