Trend price : 150€
Rompler synthesizer born during the retro-realtime controllers commercial wave fom the nineties
Overview
(weight: 6 kg) 61 velocity keys. Main panel features a simple display, 6 assignable knobs, 12 push buttons and 10 switch tabs for matrix control.
Back panel terminal connectors:
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Midi interface
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AUX line input
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2 assignable footswitches
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volume pedal input
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main output
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headphones
Voice
up to 32 digital voices polyphony based on AWM2 technology, 16-bit sample rompler. The basic playmode is the performance which is composed by a maximum of 4 layered patch-sample.
Wavetable
4.5 Mb ROM contains 450 sounds organized into 22 differents categories
Performance
MULTIPLAY mode allows a special 16 parts mode since CS1X is fully GM/XG compliant.
Filter
digital resonant lowpass at -24/Oct.
LFO
there are 3 identical modulators:
- MOD amplitude
- PMOD pitch
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FMOD filter.
Envelope
- AEG: amplitude : 4-segments ADSR
- FEG: filter 4-segments ADSR
- PEG: pitch 4 segments ADSR + 2 times.
Effect
- 11 reverb model
- 11 chorus models
- 43 variation and insert models: delay, leslie, tremolo, pan, overdrive, wah, distortion and phaser.
Arpeggiator
30 arpeggios presets and 10 time subdivisions.
Memory
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128 ROM presets
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128 RAM users
Audio demo:
Video Clip:
Review
OK: cheap / knobs
NOT : filter / waveforms / FX DSP
"ok for electro sounds, pads, some digital leads, but trash all acoustic sounds! A kind of super Yamaha canvas with neat real-time controls."
Text , review, special demos copyright polynominal.com / Eric Pochesci