This is a quick introduction to the Electronic Music Works microModular synthesizer – a new modular synth system that’s currently under development.
No pricing or availability information has been announced. It’s officially ‘coming soon’.
This is a quick introduction to the Electronic Music Works microModular synthesizer – a new modular synth system that’s currently under development.
No pricing or availability information has been announced. It’s officially ‘coming soon’.
It looks more like a semi-modular synthesizer than a modular system. But I like semi-modular synths! 😉
Nothing appeals to me more than sitting in a dark room patching a modular – but alas I was not alive in the days of them, and as a student I have no money for one! This looks like a satisfying entry to modular synthesis just like the microkorg xl was an entry to VA synthesis or me.
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“but alas I was not alive in the days of them,”
I am certain that there are vastly more modular synths being made these days than ever before…
Too true. Doepfer alone has probably sold more modules in the last decade and a half than all modular manufacturers in all formats from the “first wave” of modulars (i.e. prior to 1980).
Lovely little beasty. If it’s got a similar price to the mopho (give or take about 100$) I think it should sell well. I demand synthtopia update us when there’s new info.
They have another video on this synth on their YouTube channel (psprojectbrazil). In the comments on that video, they say it will be 399 (i. e. the same as the Mopho) and will be available on January 10.
Interesting that this chap and Ken MacBeth use ASR-10 for sequencing.
I still like the feel of my EPS 16+’s keys…
I ave a Mirage and its keys are much nicer than anything else I’ve touched recently. Same cost as a 61-key MIDI controller, plus 8-bit sampling and 300-note sequencing.
But knobs are def the way to go over counter-intuitive menus (like that of the Tetr4 🙁 You have to pay for a nice interface, and I bet the micromodular will cost.
looks and sounds like a Sequential Circuits Pro-One
No smooth transition between triangle / square waves, perhaps rather a pot than a switch though.
But if they’re separate circuits there could be separate outlets.
Would it be electrically tricky to crossfade the waveforms?
Sounds great.
I wanna get one of these but dont have a controller with cv and gate. What is a cheap controller or sequencer that does have cv and gate? Thanks.
It might be easier to use a Midi to CV/gate converter with a standard midi keyboard. EMW sell a converter themselves, and there are others from Doepfer, Kenton, …
Doepfer and synthesizers.com have CV/gate keyboard controllers, but they’re not cheap. As for a sequencer, consider the Doepfer Dark Time (again, not cheap).
Wow! It looks like there are two seperate systems that can be used individually or with each other. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbtvNM8AElc