Trend price : 100-150€
An affordable expander packed with samples from famous vintage keyboards and synths; most of the samples are from classic Emulator III sound libraries.
Overview
RACKMOUNT (weight: 3 Kg) 1 unit. The main panel features a 16 X 2 lines display, 5 buttons and a rotary encoder.
Terminal connectors:
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Midi interface
- main out
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4 mono AUX out
- headphones
Voice
32 digital voices at 16 bits 39 KHz sampling rate. A basic patch is composed by 1 or 2 waveforms Primary and Secondary with some controls:
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sample start offset
- tunes
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reverse flag
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start delay
Wavetable
8 MB ROM and holds 249 16-bits samples based on vintage synthesizers such as Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Hammond, Prophet, Moog, ARP, Mellotron, Oberheim but also some acoustic shots and drum samples. PLUS OPTION is a non-standard SIMM can be installed into the dedicated slot doubling the ROM samples to extra 8 MB + 185 new samples.
Performance
up to 16 parts with individual Midi channel, pan, tune and volume
Filter
primary and secondary have an individual digital resonant filter lowpass at 2 / 4 poles configuration.
LFO
- LFO 1: osc pitch
- LFO 2: VCA
Envelope
- EG1 primary amplitude: 5-segments AHDSR
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EG2 secondary amplitude : 5-segments AHDSR
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EG3 AHDSR is assignable by control matrix to various parameters such as filter or pitch.
Effects
none, except the CHORUS parameter but it is a voice trick channels, halving polyphony.
Memory
- RAM: 256 patches
- ROM: 256 presets
Audio demo:
Video Clip:
Review
OK: vintage related / price
NOT : static sound / limited edit / old samples
"Samples are a bit old and programming could be tedious. However some great programmed sounds there! Also you may consider the Roland M-VS1 which is even cheaper."
Text , review, special demos copyright polynominal.com / Eric Pochesci