I've been able to get sounds ranging from really basic but pleasing analog string patches, to literally TV static with the tuning antennae going nuts, to literally just bleeps and bloops you'd hear out of chiptune or something. This opens a LOT of possibilities up for great and easy sound design. You can map any of these to most anything in the synth. You've got keyboard features (velocity, modwheel, pitch wheel, etc), envelopes, LFOs, functions (basically very complex LFO shapes, you can draw yourself), randoms, combinations and macros. It gets even better - you have a dozen little envelopes and LFOs and whatnot going on at the bottom. Best of all, though, you can route this to two independent filters (there's a TON of filters on this thing, Model D style, SEM style, Matrix-12 style, basic ones, and so on), and they can be panned wherever you want, to get some really cool stereo patches. If you want granular playback, but also wavetable rhythmic percussion or whatever, that's totally doable. If you want 6 oscillator madness, you can go for two Analogs. The sample/granular engine is the most interesting and complex one, as it can both play samples like you'd expect, and ALSO turn them into granular bits and pieces that really turn a simple sound into something either gritty and harsh, or soft and mellow, or anything in between.īest of all - you can use any two engines together. It's really good if you're just trying to get a more retro analog sound, and it works well for other things too, perhaps the simplest out of the three available engines.
The analog engine is basically just a Minimoog Model D, with extra features.
This works great if you're just trying to get a funky sound, and there's dozens of included preset wavetables, and you can use several modulation methods to shape up the sound even more.
Wavetable is your typical fare, load in a file and it'll turn it into cycles that you can morph between. Let's see - this synth has a wavetable, analog and sample/granular engine. Personally, Red Means Recording's tutorials are very good and quick to grasp. It's what made me go from an absolute novice and having no clue how to use it, to really knowing my way 'round it, and honestly for how much this synth can do, I'd say it's necessary. If you just got this, or if you're planning to get it, I will heavily recommend giving tutorials a watch.
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