Trend price : 150€
Rackmount version of the famous analog synthesizer Bass station keyboard.
Overview
(weight: 1.5 kg) 1 unit Main panel features a segment display, 18 knobs, 14 rubber buttons and 12 switchtabs.
Terminal connectors:
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Midi interface
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main out
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line signal input
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CV/Gate I/O
- headphones
Voice
analog monophonic module based on subtractive synthesis. A voice is composed by 2 identical DCO oscillators with volume mix balancing.
Oscillator
DCO1: saw / pulse (variable width)
DCO2: same as DCO1
Performance
- adjustable portamento
- autoglide legato for a kind of Tb303 "twang" effect
- single / multi / poly triggering: restarts the EG1 or free flown mode
- EG bias assignable to breath controller or aftertouch pressure
- LFO rate and depth can be assigned to aftertouch, breath or Midi CC#
- polyphonic mode chains various basstation units for voices spillover
Filter
resonant lowpass filter at 2 or 4 poles slope. External line sources can be VCF filtered (no gain control) if EG is engaged.
LFO
single delayed modulator (shapes: saw, triangle and random) with clock sync and 3 destinations:
- VCF cutoff
- DCO1-2 pitch
- DCO1-2 pulse width
Envelope
- EG1 is hardwired to amplitude
- EG2 can be assigned to filter cutoff or pulse width
Midi
all knobs send Midi CC#
Memory
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60 ROM presets
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40 RAM slots
Audio demo:
Video Clip:
Review
OK: CV-gate / improvement from keyboard
NOT : thin oscillators / edit
"Many improvement from classic keyboard version. Still a nice rack, not much to tweak for the limited interface. An interesting buy at fair, especially for the cv gate features"
Text , review, special demos copyright polynominal.com / Eric Pochesci