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oscillateur wrote:Eowave will be at the Tokyo Festival of Modular next week-end, and Marc (Mr Eowave) is super cool so if he has the Quadrantid there I can try it/ask questions and give my not necessarily relevant impressions .

oscillateur wrote:Btw, quick notes from what I saw today at TFoM :

- I tried the Eowave Quadrantic Swarm, it's really super nice. All the oscillators modes are not coded yet (that part is digital) but what was there sounded good. There is a wavefolder and then two filters in series, and depending on the resonance and cutoff frequency of the filters you can easily get sounds that are kinda quiet for some frequencies but much heavier/gnarlier for others. Also, playing several notes at the same time can hit the wavefolder harder, which can give some nice overdriven sounds. I think I liked the polyphonic mode more than the monophonic sequencer mode but both at quite cool. I didn't even patch anything, just the default routing sounded great. The spring reverb at the end is also a nice touch, as it does add a lot to the sound. The touch pads each have a pot for tuning and are quantized to semitones btw, but there is a CV input and global tuning knob that are not quantized. It's super easy to set the pads to the notes you want and then play with them (as long as the thing is grounded, which is the case if you plug it in a mixer or monitors for example).

- I tried a prototype sequencer called Trigger Hacker (5 triggers tracks + one CV track) from a new Japanese manufacturer that was really nice. I'll try to upload a photo later, but it's 12HP and has a 5*5 array of LEDs pushbuttons (the outer 16 being used for steps and the 9 inside for other things), active steps (a la Korg) selection for each track, tap tempo, other options I forgot, etc.

- There was a bunch of Australian people showing their stuff : Oscillosaurus, Cat Full Of Ghosts, etc. Oscillosaurus has a very cool module that should be finished soon that can function as mixer, offset/attenuator, sequential switch, etc. I also bought a tiny 2HP dual passive crossfader from him. Cat Full Of Ghosts have a ton of cool/weird stuff. A really interesting one that will be a kickstarter soon is a small black and white standalone video synth with several CV inputs. Very cool. He also has several analog to digital and binary to decimal/etc. modules that can be great as triggers patterns generators.

- I tried the Malekko Manther a little bit. The synth section is quite simple but efficient (oscillator + noise with a good mixer section, VCF, envelopes, modulation, and a delay at the end) but the main thing is the sequencer, which is super deep. You can record knobs movements for everything and easily set the values for a specific step too. The point is that with just one sound source you can end up with something that sounds like a full drum kit or more. There will be a wavetable-based one after this made with The Harvestman that will have more or less the same sequencer section, that one will likely be a beast... There were still some patterns by Baseck in the unit I tried and it didn't sound like one monosynth at all.

Speaking of that, Baseck is fucking amazing live. He does fun, dancey, glitchy and at times borderline industrial stuff and it's impressive to see the amount of sounds and rhythms he gets out of his modular (he was playing with what looked like a 6U case). The guy has skills, and I really recommend seeing him live if you have the occasion.

Taylor Deupree and Marcus Fisher also played a great set, obviously much more ambient and quiet .

dozicusmaximus wrote:From the Modular thread. Might not be what your asking about. But...

$harkToootth wrote:It's related. I would be in that band. I also like 'Teenage Muttaa's Synths'
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