Supercritical Redshift 6

[egbert101]

https://soundcloud.com/supercritical-synthesizers

Source: https://www.gearnews.com/supercritical- ... o-desktop/

[FranklyFlawless]

Yes, it is already in my list of MPE hardware synthesizers.

[egbert101]

Some interesting development videos of a potentially amazing synthesizer:

[Alien Brother]

And now on Youtube there's a couple of demo videos from Superbooth. One thing I like about virtual analog is unison without losing polyphony and it seems their DCO can emulate that. I'm curious how far this goes, for example in their dual-oscillator "engine", can the second oscillator be independently tuned.



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[pdxindy]

The Redshift 6 sounds impressive...

[db3]

Not sure about the design (toning down the chassis colours and having rectangular buttons would help), but it sure sounds interesting! Liking 6 voices with 6 outs. Keeping an eye on this.

[db3]

Some nice presets in this new video from 4'38"

[db3]

I see Redshift 6 has finally had an official release. Although, the current firmware seems to be beta...
https://view.monday.com/1731843320-9150 ... afb?r=euc1

[Constructed Identity]

Sounds from Starsky

[db3]

Preset run through from Starsky. Still keeping an eye on this even though it's far from a finished product.

[kritikon]

I know I shouldn't judge a synth from presets (UBXa is a prime example...awful cheesey presets but a far more capable synth hidden away). But those presets make Redshift sound awfully ho-hum IMO. Great for supersaws, if you're stuck in the 90s I guess. The sync sounds OK and the filter drive at least can add some character, but it seems like a vanilla filter to me. Nothing whatsoever that wowed me that I can't do on any number of other synths I use. And this is purely subjective, but the interface doesn't attract me either. Reminds me of some Waldorf synths - menu-diving with small number of token knobs, kinda nice look about individual items that could be classy but not cohesive or user-friendly. At first glance it doesn't compete well with, say recent Korg VAs or even those awful Roland rehashed jobbies. Hexagonal buttons aren't enough to sell a synth. It makes me think it's a yesterday's synth beefed up with more voices...

[db3]

Revisiting this to see what progress had been made, and I was pleased to learn Supercritical have delivered on the roadmap — multitimbral's now supported. Always sounds great in videos. GAS is building!

[SLiC]

Firmware 1.6 is now out featuring a polyphonic 6 track sequencer. Given this was already pretty impressive I have to say I am now very tempted to buy one…Edits- ordered one! They stuck to their roadmap of adding (promised) features and it’s pretty much complete now (I think the only button that now needs a feature is ‘maths’ and that’s coming next month), there list of what they have planned for 2026 looks very exciting- time to jump om board!

[SLiC]

Had a day with it now- upgraded to v1.6- very very impressed, people need to re-review/re-look at this now its pretty much done, great sound, really interesting with the 6 layers and sequencer.

[simmo75]

Had a day with it now- upgraded to v1.6- very very impressed, people need to re-review/re-look at this now its pretty much done, great sound, really interesting with the 6 layers and sequencer.

I'd love to hear some of your patches, or even 3rd party patches of the more experimental nature, or at least non-cheesy...

The demo's online are awful! The synth feature set looks interesting, yet the sounds it appears to ship with are 90's trance