Eek, Mon!

Today I got my hands on a new bass and lead synth.

Each sound can be treated as an instrument in its own right and (Reaktor-like) ‘flipped’ to display the ‘patch cabling’ on ‘the rear’ — which is sweet.

By default, every sound is ‘arpeggiated’ but in a weird why that acts kinda like a morphing function, so, as well as changing the pitch, it changes the sound itself at the same time.

With the ‘arpeggiator’ on, pressing and holding a key plays the entire pattern; letting it go stops the pattern at that point and pressing the key again restarts the pattern where it left off … but with the original sound, so it gets morphed in a different way than the first time. So, even without an aftertouch enabled keyboard, you can play a huge number of sequences from a single key (depending on how many steps there in the pattern).

And … most exciting of all …

It. Is. Rough.

It sounds like no other synth I have ever heard … seriously raw: filthier than any sawtooth I’ve ever heard produced by any other synth (even when distorted) … and makes the nastiest Dubstep you’ve ever heard sound like Mary Poppins at her most saccharine — dirty, dirty sounds.

I think I’ve finally learned what a choir of fallen angels sounds like when it’s badly in need of a stiff drink (or six) — after the debauchery is already over!

This promises to be fun!