17 thoughts on “3 Cool Features Of The AFX Station & Bass Station 2”

1. Do you pronounce it “A F X”? I’ve always said “Aphex” as if the word hasn’t changed.

   1. Aphex twin, AFX, Blue Calx, Bradley Strider, Caustic Window, GAK, Polygon Window, Q-Chastic, Richard D. James, The Tuss, user18081971…

2. Needs more Cow Cud Bell

   1. roy?

3. Did they fix the crappy knobs from the original BS 2 ?

   1. Apparently yes. Unless the new ones also have that gunky rubbery coating that fall apart in a few months.
      For that reason, the knobs currently on my BSII were taken from a cheap Behringer… compressor.

4. So i guess an overlay is what Nord lead was calling a drum mode…

5. Very helpful video. Those are all great new features. The separate glide times for each oscillator is particularly brilliant. The overlay copying looks to have really nicely thought out usability.

6. Wake me up when they collaborate on some kind of real-time Kyma type synth hardware

   Instead of endlessly rehashing the same old shit over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over because that gets old after a while

   1. How many physical synths can you name that allow the user to program different patches for individual keys & allow the user to play those keys rather than swapping global patches?

      That’s pretty new as far as I’m aware but please prove me wrong, I’ll be stoked to find out more.

      If an easily accessible subtractive synth with new modulation functions is a fail, good for you champ! There’s loads of other DIY options out there to get unique synthesis systems running (Max for a start).

      1. Im not interested in a debate

         Whatever floats your boat

         And vice versa

         END OF STORY

         1. Your contamination of the comment area without real substance says otherwise

      2. Polyend Medusa

         1. Yes, Also on the analogkeys/A4

   2. I look forward to seeing what you do…

7. Bummer. Am a bit dissapointed. Of course it is complaining on a high level but i still have to say that i own the BS2 and this does not make me wanna “want” a Afx BS2. What i would rather find super would be a BS3 with (you guessed right) a third Osc and maybe even some patch points. All of that in a metal enclosure. Then price it 500-700 euros. But as i said. I am complaining at a high level and its not really that important. Bs2 or Afx Bs are simply great synths by any standards.

   1. > a third Osc

      You must not have looked at the features. There is a third osc. The suboscillator is completely independently tunable, which makes it a third osc. And you can even upgrade your current machine to support this feature.