At Superbooth 2021, Jürgen Michaelis of Jomox is introducing the MOD FM, a modular analog/digital hybrid synthesizer with 4-operator FM tone generation.
Features:
- 8-voice polyphony Euro format synthesizer
- Digital oscillators with analog SSM filters
- 2 LFOs per voice, which can also be used as VCOs, for six oscillators per voice total
- Versatile internal modulation matrix plus external CV control
- Four CV inputs control the FM components and 4 CV inputs control the pitch envelopes of each operator.
- Eight audio outputs
Here are some audio demos via Lesides:
Pricing and Availability
The Jomox MOD FM is currently under development and is expected to be released in 2022. Pricing is TBA.
Are you going to fix the bugs in the xbase series firmwares one day? 😉
JOMOX is stuck in an odd time warp, from their design aesthetics, to their bug ridden firmware, they need help.
They need assistance with their firmware n until then I avoid purchasing their gear!
reminder: for 1k euro you can get the modx that has fm synthesis w/64 voices *and* a 16-track pattern sequencer. the modx kills every synth out there, specs-, price-, and sound-wise.
and it samples. cuckoo does a sampling tutorial on it.
i sprung a little extra for pc4 (got in right before the price increase) and have been having great fun loading these up on it:
https://www.thisdx7cartdoesnotexist.com/
each dx7 patch is 1 VAST block, so you can apparently go up to 32 part multitimbral, though I haven’t tried yet.
The interface matters. Sure, they’re both FM synths but they are very very different animals. It’s like comparing a helicopter and a plane—they both do the one basic thing (flying) but they have very very different uses in practice.
fair enough.
Too many engineers in this biz going down recursive rabbit holes and not enough product designers helping the engineers channel their skills into things that people actually want to buy.
Lovely thing. Quite sure I can’t afford/justify it but yum.