Remember we said to save your pennies cos we had something big planned? Well, this is it
Jennings Mk 2 is a "timewarp" instrument, taking 1950s valve synthesiser technology as found on the Jennings Univox and reimagining it as a fully-fledged analogue polysynth in the style of Roland's early 80s offerings. Instead of a faithful recreation of the 50s original, this is a complete reinvention, taking the evocative, haunting valve sound of the hardware machine and harnessing it to a synth architecture massively more capable than the original. Complex, evolving, organic sounds just flood out of this thing – it's a sound-designer or synth fanatic's powerhouse
Take a look at the specs to see what we mean:
- Four oscillators (two main valve oscs with shapeable waveforms; one retro-fitted analogue main osc with classic analogue waveforms; one valve sub-osc).
Four multimode filters (one per main oscillator plus one multimode switchable 2/4 pole global filter with resonance and envelope).
Multiple LFOs with selectable shape, including a smoothed random.
Dual Jennings wave-shaper tab bars running in parallel on oscs 1 and 2, to craft the sound.
Auto-Bend (yay!).
Controllable percussive key-click.
And loads more – effects, envelopes, mixer, our Glitch button for generating musically-sensible random patches... the works.
https://soundcloud.com/theprofessor-4/j ... patch-demo
If that's whetted your appetite a bit, all the details can be found here:
http://www.rhythmicrobot.com/page0/page ... index.html
Jennings Mk2 is available at an introductory special offer price of £24.95, but will revert to its full retail price of £29.95 soon, so grab it fast before it time warps back to its own parallel 50s dimension
It requires Kontakt 4.2.3 or later to run (including all versions of Kontakt 5).Happy music making!
The Professor (and Mongo)
* Like we have a factory. Most of these were programmed in Mongo's cupboard.
