The module feels heavy duty and a solid chunk of metal.
Industrial rugged like the keyboard version.
I like the smaller buttons better, they feel tight, clicky and tactile. The knobs are the same and feel somewhat cheap, just like the keyboard.
Plastic caps with metal shafts. A slight wiggle but feel good. Would have liked Prophet 10 style knobs
The front panel overlay feels thick and well secured - looks and feels hard like metal.
There are vents at the bottom and rear, and she does get quite warm. So a laptop stand with holes in it is ideal.
I did some testing
Waveforms start to clip around 90-100 combined levels
The VA Sawtooth looks and sounds strange on the scope.
Like there is a sinewave mixed into it.
Polybrute and Trigon 6 have pure sawtooths.
Mks80 rev 5 has a weird sawtooth too, due to bass boost, which cleans up with highpass at 39
Sawtooth..?
Square :p
Triangle
Highpass around 15-19 cleans up the waveform a bit and the bass boosted sound
Would like an option to remove bass boost if possible, for a more neutral sound option.
So I'm not stuck using the highpass filter all the time
Bass is too overloaded due to this boost. OK on thinner wave tables but too much on the harmonically richer waves and VA waves
single sawtooth bass sound, then with highpass at 19.
https://soundcloud.com/coolcolj/3rd-wav ... al_sharing
Glide doesn't sound as good/ natural as my other analog synths, especially on arps.
Also annoying that it is in the global menu list rather on a knob.
I sometimes turn it on and off while playing, which is hard to do if it's in the menus
Can sometimes sound punchy, but the overloaded bass spoils and makes the snap less present.
Velocity to envelope gives good snap
Would like a confirmation option when moving the program knob on an edited patch.
Lost a few patches doing this....
Hydrasynth offers this as a global menu option.
Any synth that uses a knob to change program, as opposed to buttons should offer this.
Looks to have an IPS LCD display, so no OLED burn out worries.
But I have set my display to go blank after 1 min of inactivity to keep the back light going for many years.
Like my Lynx hilo's touch screen which is on 8 hours a day for the last 15 years.
Still working like new, but it has an industrial medical spec display
Can sound convincingly analog, well some flavours of analog, especially once you remove the excessive bass bump.
