i just got a rev 2 which is actually my first contemporary analog poly in a collection of vintage ones. i make experimental electronic music in berlin and here are some of my thoughts on this synth.
right off the bat, its really interesting to look inside first. so what we have here is a very limited number of chips under close digital control. compare this with an oberheim xpander chip mass grave and you get the idea :-)
what strikes me first about the rev 2 is the precise tuning of the 32 dcos vs. the raw "real" chip sound, its actually the main reason i bought it. that means you could theoretically build up arbitrary precision wide band harmonics with many oscillators that dont sound like a digital plugin.
for that you would need total control over the engine of course. the rev 2 seems to be still stuck with one leg in the 80s keyboard paradigm but maybe there will be a "sound designers edition" one day?:
- full control over the frequencies of all oscillators ie. not detuned midi but direct frequency input via OSC or extended midi data. precision control over the frequency beating ie. "slop" so you can actually tune the sound of chords.
- flexible routing and gain structure. thats probably the hardest part but in my experience in analog audio the gain structure makes most of the sound. on my rev 2 i have to switch off one oscillator to lower the gain of the other one and reduce the filter saturation. what?
- arbitrary stacking of the 16 voices instead of 2 layers, obviously.
- instead of 2 analog oscillators, one analog and one digital USER oscillator would increase the sound range vastly. that is a different synth of course but it would still sound better than the prologue :-)
just my twopence after a few days of fiddling with the rev 2. cheers from berlin!
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