Meris has introduced the Enzo, a multi-voice synthesizer that’s designed to track your guitar and let you create monosynth leads, complex chord polyphony, or multi-note sequenced arpeggiation, without the need for a special pickup.
While guitarists are the primary audience for the Enzo, it isn’t limited to guitar. You can use it on any instrument, whether drum machine, vocals or other synths.
Features:
Multi-Voice Dual Oscillator Synth architecture with selectable waveforms
Two Tap Delay with Time, Feedback, Modulation, and special two stage level control
Three Synth modes: Poly Synth, Mono Synth, and Arpeggiated Synth
Two Distinct Tunable Envelope Types: Triggered and Envelope Follower
Tunable Portamento Time for smooth transitions between synth notes and pitch shifts
Sustain control for extending your volume envelope all the way to endless synth hold
Adjustable Compressor with Threshold and Mix for your input signal (Dry mode)
Custom 6-mode filter with frequency, bandwidth (resonance), and envelope
Wide ranging Ring Modulation with ability to assign envelope control
Digitally controlled Analog mix control
Stereo input and output
Switchable input / output headroom level for Guitar or Synth / Line level
Expression pedal control over all parameters simultaneously
Presets available via external 4-Preset switch or MIDI
MIDI in/out over TRS via the EXP jack
External Tap Tempo over TRS
MIDI beat clock synchronization
Premium analog signal path and 24-bit AD/DA w/32 bit floating point DSP
Premium Analog Devices JFET input section
Color – translucent coat of vibrant gold over brushed aluminum
A variety of audio demos are available at the Meris site.
13 thoughts on “Meris Intros Enzo Multi-Voice Synth Pedal”
The expression pedal setup looks very slick. Would be great if more hardware synths had such an easy macro-parameter setup.
This is actually extremely cool, and the price isn’t bad either! I see this doing well for them.
I agree, it seems like a great feature set for that price.
I’d like to know more about the envelop settings for the filter.
I would also like to have heard some more routine examples of the pitch-shifting in action. Especially how well it tracks when just doing an octave up or an octave down. If it tracks smoothly an octave up, that would be a pretty unusual feature– because most pitch shifters in stomp boxes and multi-effects are terrible.
There is an example of the pitch tracking at 10:10 in this video. It’s a simple slow melody, but still, I didn’t hear any tracking problems– which you can hear in the demos of other gear.
Here’s the vid I referred to but forgot to paste. PItch examples at 10:10
For $299, you get one heck of an instrument and effect sculptor!!!!
Meris WINS!!!
I may get one…. or more.
Meris is on a roll!
Impressive work! I’m always weirdly pleased when someone hits the mark like this. While I’m semi-dazzled by big gear stacks because I’m a GUY, I’m also a big believer in a focused rig that brings out your most creative powers. This isn’t the right tool for me as a DAW creature now, but its a superior piece for a guitarist (or other soloist type, really) who has some vision. Meris would get my money on the spot *today* if I played strings. This could make a strong partner for a couple of Electro-Harmonix pieces. Thumbs up for a powerful variation on pedal power and another for the solid demo.
Yeah, totally agree. Before I saw the price, I thought minimum it would be around $500. And this would be pretty cool even for $500…WAY cooler for $299.
There is an example of pitch shifting on this video at about 10:10. It seems to track very well, though the examples are pretty slow and simple. Still, it sounds in-tune and seems to track perfectly.
Damn this shit is cool, accurately priced too…..which is a rare thing nowadays.
Saw an instagram video of baseck running an old Yamaha drum machine through one of these… instant techno. I want one!
The MIDI-Out could be a hit, I wanted to see on those EHX things which turn guitar into Piano, Organ, Melo etc.
I bet there will be more of such stuff out soon.
The expression pedal setup looks very slick. Would be great if more hardware synths had such an easy macro-parameter setup.
This is actually extremely cool, and the price isn’t bad either! I see this doing well for them.
I agree, it seems like a great feature set for that price.
I’d like to know more about the envelop settings for the filter.
I would also like to have heard some more routine examples of the pitch-shifting in action. Especially how well it tracks when just doing an octave up or an octave down. If it tracks smoothly an octave up, that would be a pretty unusual feature– because most pitch shifters in stomp boxes and multi-effects are terrible.
There is an example of the pitch tracking at 10:10 in this video. It’s a simple slow melody, but still, I didn’t hear any tracking problems– which you can hear in the demos of other gear.
Here’s the vid I referred to but forgot to paste. PItch examples at 10:10
https://youtu.be/3hEvA1EzdDM
For $299, you get one heck of an instrument and effect sculptor!!!!
Meris WINS!!!
I may get one…. or more.
Meris is on a roll!
Impressive work! I’m always weirdly pleased when someone hits the mark like this. While I’m semi-dazzled by big gear stacks because I’m a GUY, I’m also a big believer in a focused rig that brings out your most creative powers. This isn’t the right tool for me as a DAW creature now, but its a superior piece for a guitarist (or other soloist type, really) who has some vision. Meris would get my money on the spot *today* if I played strings. This could make a strong partner for a couple of Electro-Harmonix pieces. Thumbs up for a powerful variation on pedal power and another for the solid demo.
Yeah, totally agree. Before I saw the price, I thought minimum it would be around $500. And this would be pretty cool even for $500…WAY cooler for $299.
There is an example of pitch shifting on this video at about 10:10. It seems to track very well, though the examples are pretty slow and simple. Still, it sounds in-tune and seems to track perfectly.
Damn this shit is cool, accurately priced too…..which is a rare thing nowadays.
Saw an instagram video of baseck running an old Yamaha drum machine through one of these… instant techno. I want one!
The MIDI-Out could be a hit, I wanted to see on those EHX things which turn guitar into Piano, Organ, Melo etc.
I bet there will be more of such stuff out soon.