Trend price : 150€
Rackmount expander full of electronic sounds, analog basses and leads.
Overview
(weight: 3 Kg) Front panel features a LCD display, 9 buttons + 4 knobs for real-time parameter controls.
Back panel terminal connectors:
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Midi interface
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main out
Filter
50 models of Z-plane filters inspired from the previous Emu Morpheus. First types are the classic ones including lowpass, highpass and bandpass and more sophisticated ones like swept octave EQ, phasers, flangers, vocal formant filters.
LFO
2 interchangeable modulators (0.08 Hz to 18.14 Hz) both can be assigned to and open matrix structure that manages various sources and modulation destinations. Typical destinations are: pitch, amplitude or filter.
Envelope
EG1: amplitude (1 for each layer)
EG2: filter (1 for each layer)
EG3: AUX
assignable.
Performance
global mode manages 16 parts each with an arpeggiator - The note/octave range can be assigned as well as velocity gate, latched, looped to specific bars or assigned to 19 different tempo dividers.
Effect
- DSP1: 44 reverb and echo algorithms including hall, room, plate and delay.
- DSP2: 32 modulation algorithms like chorus, flanger, phaser and vibrato.
Memory
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512 RAM patches
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384 ROM patches on the XL SIMM
- 200 ROM arpeggiator patterns
- 100 RAM arpeggiator pattern
- 12 ROM microtuning
- 12 RAM microtuning
Audio demo:
Video Clip:
Review
OK: samples / functions / complex routing
NOT : interface / edit
"lot of material here! good PCM, many modulations and filters. Sound edit is complex, interesting, it's like having an Emulator IV ultra with no sampling, but virtually unlimited programming power. Interface sucks for such zillion of functions. "
Text , review, special demos copyright polynominal.com / Eric Pochesci