Programmable Wrist Synth Pushes The Envelope
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The rise in popularity of middle-range polyphonic synthesizers is as remarkable as the disappearance of the once-popular monophonics. Technology has become cheaper, allowing features once found only on the single-note machines to be incorporated on their polyphonic brothers, not the least of which is the ability to play lead-line styles at the flick of a switch and revert to chordal work equally quickly.This review has been particularly difficult to write for two reasons. Firstly, pricing policy in the shops has gone haywire, with instruments that should have gone out with the Ark costing more than their more recent counterparts, and so far as we are aware, still being manufactured alongside these younger machines. Secondly, the advent of the Yamaha DX range has made criticism of the current keyboards all too easy as far as their sound goes: there is no doubt in my mind that digital generation will (indeed must!) take over from analogue generation; and now that one manufacturer has put programmable digital synthesis within everyone's reach, there is a state of tension in the market place creating unstable, incongruous pricing and indecision in the mind of the buyer. In the midst of this minor maelstrom I have reviewed a handful of currently available polyphonics at the not-too-expensive end of the market.
It is also worth mentioning that since this is an Arduino project, the code could easily be migrated to alternative hardware to explore additional/alternative features. For example, the Arduino Mega has many more inputs and outputs, so a longer sequence length would be easily achievable, and many more parameters could be placed under real-time control via the additional analog input pins. Alternatively, using something like the Teesny 3.2 or 3.6 would allow the use of the Teensy Audio System design tool and Audio library. This would enable a relatively easy expansion of the internal synthesis engine allowing this sequencer to play all sorts of different wave shapes, physical models, or even samples through programmable volume envelopes, filters, distortion, and more. Additionally, the Teensy would allow USB MIDI notes to be generated by the quantizer (with a little modification to the function). Your sequencer hardware could then control plugins and other instruments on your production computer using the same USB cable you used to program it.
While some handmade electronic music has a tendency to engage with the more chaotic suggestions of the materials that surround us, a contrarian subcurrent has focused on the development of controllers for digital music synthesis systems. Working with the increasingly programmable nature of digital audio workstations and other software tools, and relatively ease to use standards, from MIDI to OSC, projects offering assignable knobs, switches and potentiometers have multiplied. A number of these are open source, encouraging the sharing of variations adapted by makers/composers/performers.29
Dave Smith of Sequential Circuits fame has released the Mopho Keyboard, a mustard yellow monophonic analog synth with semi-weighted 32 note keyboard. It features the same voice architecture as his Mopho and Tetra desktop modules, with two oscillators, sub-octave generators, a selectable 2 or 4-pole lowpass filter, and a handful of envelope generators and LFOs.
Both VL-Tones feature five awful monophonic sounds (basically the same square wave bleep with different amplitude envelopes), a sixth programmable \"ADSR\" synth mode, and 10 drum rhythms that should be perfect for accompanying your next smash-hit waltz or bossanova.
The GSi Krill Synthesizer was born from a design originally conceived to work as a mono synthesizer on an embedded processor (RP2040), then it was modified to be polyphonic for a more powerful processor (ARM H7) and finally we thought it would be perfect as a AUv3 for iPad, for those quick and dirty synth sounds you sometimes need without getting lost in endless parameter navigation and menu diving. So here it is, just one screen, one knob - one function, what you see is what you get. Two oscillators, one LFO, one low pass filter, two envelopes, stereo chorus, ping-pong delay, 64 presets. Have fun!
Fundamental is a sound synthesis software which reproduces the test equipment sound of Hainbach's Rohde&Schwartz sine wave oscillator. For the original development of Fundamental, Hainbach offered his ingenious idea of combining 8 test equipment oscillators instead of 1 inside the app. He has recorded the original sound of his test equipment ( his wrist got great pain during this process with his own words ), and delivered these sounds.
With the modular page, you can create custom drum sense by piecing together a number of synth parameters, including filters, envelopes, oscillators, and more. if the synthesis engine isn't for you, you'll be happy to know that Spark 2 is packed with more than 180 preset drum kits, and the best thing is that it also includes 30 incredible drum machine emulations for vintage lovers.
Novation has standardized the layout as best as possible. Most software synthesizers have some similar controls, so the ReMote always uses the three left-most columns of controls for the oscillator section, the next two columns for the LFOs, the next three columns for the filters and the fader section for the envelopes. That makes it easy to fire up an instrument and get to work. 153554b96e