FPGA is a way of creating a custom digital circuit by using software tools. When on the device, it's no longer code, but is instead a bunch of on-chip digital hardware (various types of gates, etc. and sometimes specialized cores). It's not magical, but it does let you run at hardware speeds, which can be good for this type of use. It's field-programmable (the FP in FPGA) so there can be, in theory, updates to the circuit after it has been delivered.
@Donal Finn You can have digital without code. Digital just means discrete logic values rather than continuous voltages. For example: the original Yamaha FM chips, are definitely digital, but aren't executing anything we'd call "code". The difference is, regular code is a set of instructions that are stored in memory and evaluated by a processor at runtime. In a simplified sense, FPGA is more a set of logic gates (and/or/not/etc.) that signals are sent between at runtime. It's configured, rather than programmed. It can also do much more in parallel as you dedicate different blocks to perform parallel tasks (like reading input). One is not necessarily better than the other (and neither of them have a "sound"). But the FPGA is more of a hardware solution once the initial work is done vs DSP chip which is a normal code-running processor with specialized functions for signal processing. I think this quote from Sparkfun (posting the link will get the comment moderated, so look up "sparkfun how does an FPGA work" for more info) is helpful: "However, FPGAs can be far more efficient in terms of processing time as well as offering very tight timing. To illustrate this, let’s look at a trivial example of turning an LED on when you press a button. If you wrote code to do this with something like an Arduino, the processor would run a small loop of code that would read the state of a pin then update the state of another pin based on that value. If you optimized the code you could probably get this to update in the millions of times per second. That may sound great but let’s look at what it would look like with an FPGA. In the case of simply connecting a button to an LED with an FPGA, you simply connect the button and the LED. The value from the button passes through some input buffer, is fed through the routing matrix, then output through an output buffer. This process happens continuously all the time. The only delay comes from the switching delays of the transistors in the chip, which are incredibly small."
This is one of the few times where if I didn't know, I'd have thought this was a fully analogue poly synth. It has all the character and warmth of analogue, but with the top end glassiness and shimmer of digital. The best of both worlds in my opinion.
Owning it for a couple of weeks, i can inly agree to Nicks opinion - it will never ever leave my setup. Best buy in decades for me. Definitely an instrument of character- intuitive like Juno, so beefy as Moog, versatile: decent warm if you want - or aggressive. A wonderful sounding modern classic. With great haptics too, solid in every way. Soundwise and buildwise 🙂 thanks for the review. It nailed my experience.
I didn't blieve in warm power of Digital Oscillators until i'm not found it in Peak, but now the new reality of warm sounds comes even more from this, impressive
I try my best to resist gawking over newly released gear, but *wow* This is the sort of thing I hoped would come from this new era of synth design, keep the style and sounds of the vintage gear that inspires, and the features and flexibility available with modern tech. I'll be scheming about this one for awhile.
Resistance is useless... test it and keep it. You will🙂 i had no chance to test it before buy, so I bought it blind, only bAsed on youtube reviews. I was not disappointed one second - but am still overwhelmed. Greatful that i picked one.
@@LocaliLLocano I initially got the black because damn it looked sleek, but I cancelled the preorder halfway through 2020 because I was anxious about it never coming to the states (which it hasn't) over that time I felt like I regretted not getting the more fun color, blue, so when I ordered via a small overseas music store, I got it in blue :) It arrived a week later, I've owned it for about two months now!
Andrew M hey Andrew did you get it at gear4music? Are you from the states ? How long was the ship time? I like the blue too. It reminds me of a Jupiter 6 and a sporty g shock watch.
Great review as always Nick. Been following the evolution of this beast for some years now and loved my first hands-on with it at Synthfest last year. Mine is now finally on her way and will be with me this Friday.... can't wait ;-)
Great video and I love how this synth not only looks and sounds great but it doesn't have a screen. For me, that makes it feel like something from back in the fay only it's brand new. Well done UDO!
This thing will be my first synth. I've always wondered when to go the hardware way, because softwares nowadays brings you almost everything that hardware has to offer. This is new. This synth will make history!
Not when it sounds as good as this does. There's no plugin on the planet that'll sound as impressive. Even stuff like Omnisphere sounds feeble and cheap compared to this thing.
Phenomenal sounding synth, and that binaural mode is awesome. Shame the cost jumped an extra grand from the original planned price, but I get it's hard for a smaller company to do this.
Also it’s built like it costs. Internally, only top quality components that’ll last decades and decades supposedly. Behringer who makes affordable stuff doesn’t use these kind of high-quality capacitors etc. and you can definitely hear the difference. It costs like it sounds. Professional-level instrument here.
Your reviews are so comprehensive, thank you very much for all you do over the years, I really appreciate it. 7:55 Burning Down the House!!!! This synth does look like it burns down the house indeed!!!
The patch at 8:09 was from Burning Down the House (one of Talking Heads' finest moments), which is what you'll be doing with this beauty if you get one. I can live with the lack of heavy duty patch storage (probably be updated in a firmware update) & the JX3P style sequencer (it's less rudimentary than that, and hopefully may be beefed up with a firmware update), as it sounds so superb. It's like a cross between a Jupiter 6, 8 and even a DW8000 (ppg stuff sounded very noisy, which is due to the age of the ones I tried or the implementation of less than 16 bit technology), but with far more flexibility that is *easily accesible* due to minimal menu diving. I'm smitten with the layout and instant 'hero value' tweakability. The price is a bit steep (no bitimbral function as of yet or ever?), but i hope it shifts units cause it deserves to be played and played. Thanks for a great review 👍
Hi Nick, nice review. Looking forward to seeing it in person :) Would love to see some use of the External in/Envelope follower and the Hi-Pass filter. Lovely sounds!
I see a Ped/CV modulation source, does it have a CV pitch out on the back and if yes, could you route it into the Pedal/CV in to have a rudimentary keytracking modulation source?
I'm going to 2nd another comment posted earlier saying how out of many of the recent poly synths demo'd this year, this one has an excellent engine behind it. The brass sounds at 25:10 remind me of classic Tangerine Dream from their mid-80's time period. Good stuff!
I really wanted this thing at one point. Still kinda do. But with the PolyBrute coming out and at a cheaper price with way more effects, routing etc.. I feel that is the better buy at the moment. Especially after what they've done with the MatrixBrute. I think I'll wait about six months to a year and let them do all the firmware updates and stuff. That'll give me time to see how this thing w really sounds and works. Also gives me time to get rid of stuff so i can focus on a smaller set up. Thanks SonicLab
It covers the fluffy and mellow registers so well 😍 And it seems the alternate waves exhibit a ppg like quality that I have yet to hear in the current wavetable offerings...
great review - have been watching this synth with great interest. as a sweaty techno lord I would appreciate more depth in the sequencer, so for now I'm just watching and waiting to see what comes next! thanks sonicstate :)
colour me interested as well. I love the whole sound of it and the interface with that sweet 80s polysynth vibe. Sliders are always more appreciated than rotating knobs. Using an FPGA is a clever idea and i was wondering why this hasn't really been done yet on a bigger scale? As someone who's into exact retro console & home computer emulation, i've known the benefits if FPGAs for a while now and it's great to see them becoming a thing in Synthesizers as well :)
hmmm probably not quite comparable. They both seem to go different approaches and sound quite different. Especially the Polybrute since Arturia uses some really weird filters.
i find the poly so much more inspiring. i dont know... i cant follow up on the hype of the udo it def is a solid piece of equip and it does sound good. but thats about it. the lil tweaks like the stereospray through binaural circuitry is nice but nothing that really makes me astonished. And with the pricetag of 2,5K it def should do that. That being said its def overpriced. i understand its a lil boutique fabricator therefor prices need to be a lil higher but from my assumption its 1k too high. Its the Hippstersynth for me! Cool, retrolooks in layout, high quality but overpriced and nothing really new in the end.
When cycling through the arp modes, it seems the mode did not change. Could it be that a changed mode is only applied to subsequent key presses when hold is engaged?
Does anyone know how the keybed's like for this? I tried out the Novation Summit and those keys were so stiff, it sort of makes me worried about the other synths in this price range :(
I own one and it's the best synth I ever had (and I had many). Every time I turn it on, even for 30 minutes I end up with one or two new sounds. That matters more than specs, as it UI makes a huge difference.
I feel the same! The decision on not to have a screen was so important. The instrument invites you to play and there is such a wide sweet spot nothing sounds bad on it!
User waves can be loaded. 4096 samples, int16, no Wav file header is the format I believe. I have made a ton of these, I am unfortunately still waiting for my preordered synth. Can't wait.
FPGA’s are really fascinating. It’s not specialized at all from the factory. In fact it’s the most moldable chip out there. It becomes specialized when you program it’s hardware(logic) to function in any way you want, and it can perform the tasks at mhz rates. You can even bake a CPU inside an FPGA. I’ve been working with a fpga dev kit for a while now, and I plan to make my own synth.
Digital synths get a bad press because of DSP synths, the fixed clock rate makes aliasing an issue. Before DSP synth companies used to make dedicated digital ICs for the various stages or they would use a digital oscillator and analogue VCAs. FPGA gets us back into the good old days of digital synths and samplers. Take the Fairlight for instance, every voice card would use a variable sample rate to alter the pitch of samples, this avoided a lot of the issues of later samplers. It also gives it that unique sound when pitching down samples as used extensively on the Terminator 2 soundtrack.
@@6581punk Luckily these things have been resolved with modern dsp synths as well. Synths like the accelerator, solaris and the nords use oversampling, which moves the aliasing outside hearing range. But FPGAs takes this to another level. My take would be on making FM synthesis as clean as possible. Maybe it will extend the sweetspot. I will try to keep the processing at 32bit with 50+ MHz samplerate. And then convert it down to 32bit 192khz for the DAC. What happens before this stage is the most important.
There was a Q&A with George on gearslutz 11 months ago where I asked George about this.. this was his response: Hi, I can't make promises about our new developments at this stage just in case we change! However, many people have shared your desires and I understand the motivations for such a unit. The challenge for us would be in miniaturising the UI without losing the magic. It may mean smaller faders and pots, which would be a compromise, or a rethink using encoders. The desktop unit might actually be a completely unique entity in its own right and would not necessarily have to be a Super 6 in a rack, there is lots of options at this stage.
I love love love your reviews, nick. But perhaps you could use headphones or IEMs, so the room reflections due to the use of speakers doesn't interfere when you're deep diving?
3:48 "Plenty of low end coming in from the south, showers of white noise expected tuesday, increasing resonance into the afternoon"
Talking Heads BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE
yeah, I think he is missing chorus or something
That was bugging me, thanks.
Burning down the house! My house, is out of the ordinary. That's right, don't want to hurt nobody..
THREE-HUN-DRED-SIX-TY-FIVE-DEGREES!
@BC J BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE!
Great presentation! I do love my Super 6 ❤️
Best review of this unit by far and I've watched about 50 of them today. Well done!
FPGA is a way of creating a custom digital circuit by using software tools. When on the device, it's no longer code, but is instead a bunch of on-chip digital hardware (various types of gates, etc. and sometimes specialized cores). It's not magical, but it does let you run at hardware speeds, which can be good for this type of use. It's field-programmable (the FP in FPGA) so there can be, in theory, updates to the circuit after it has been delivered.
I was skeptical at first, but man it sounds so good. Can’t wait to see what UDO make next
Why is FPGA better than traditional DSP?
maybe a modern looking hardware design style ;-)
@Donal Finn yes, that i konw; but wat's so better with FPGA rather than DSP?
@Donal Finn You can have digital without code. Digital just means discrete logic values rather than continuous voltages. For example: the original Yamaha FM chips, are definitely digital, but aren't executing anything we'd call "code".
The difference is, regular code is a set of instructions that are stored in memory and evaluated by a processor at runtime.
In a simplified sense, FPGA is more a set of logic gates (and/or/not/etc.) that signals are sent between at runtime. It's configured, rather than programmed. It can also do much more in parallel as you dedicate different blocks to perform parallel tasks (like reading input).
One is not necessarily better than the other (and neither of them have a "sound"). But the FPGA is more of a hardware solution once the initial work is done vs DSP chip which is a normal code-running processor with specialized functions for signal processing. I think this quote from Sparkfun (posting the link will get the comment moderated, so look up "sparkfun how does an FPGA work" for more info) is helpful:
"However, FPGAs can be far more efficient in terms of processing time as well as offering very tight timing. To illustrate this, let’s look at a trivial example of turning an LED on when you press a button. If you wrote code to do this with something like an Arduino, the processor would run a small loop of code that would read the state of a pin then update the state of another pin based on that value.
If you optimized the code you could probably get this to update in the millions of times per second. That may sound great but let’s look at what it would look like with an FPGA. In the case of simply connecting a button to an LED with an FPGA, you simply connect the button and the LED. The value from the button passes through some input buffer, is fed through the routing matrix, then output through an output buffer. This process happens continuously all the time. The only delay comes from the switching delays of the transistors in the chip, which are incredibly small."
This is one of the few times where if I didn't know, I'd have thought this was a fully analogue poly synth. It has all the character and warmth of analogue, but with the top end glassiness and shimmer of digital. The best of both worlds in my opinion.
Yes
Owning it for a couple of weeks, i can inly agree to Nicks opinion - it will never ever leave my setup. Best buy in decades for me. Definitely an instrument of character- intuitive like Juno, so beefy as Moog, versatile: decent warm if you want - or aggressive. A wonderful sounding modern classic. With great haptics too, solid in every way. Soundwise and buildwise 🙂 thanks for the review.
It nailed my experience.
Totally I agree. It was love at first sight and it's the Poly I've always wanted.
I didn't blieve in warm power of Digital Oscillators until i'm not found it in Peak, but now the new reality of warm sounds comes even more from this, impressive
I would love to see this in module tbh
i agree.
@@mpmi7588 +1
I try my best to resist gawking over newly released gear, but *wow*
This is the sort of thing I hoped would come from this new era of synth design, keep the style and sounds of the vintage gear that inspires, and the features and flexibility available with modern tech.
I'll be scheming about this one for awhile.
Gassing for things is a real issue, but I promise you, this is entirely different. This is just a good-ass product.
Resistance is useless... test it and keep it. You will🙂 i had no chance to test it before buy, so I bought it blind, only bAsed on youtube reviews. I was not disappointed one second - but am still overwhelmed. Greatful that i picked one.
As an UDO owner I’ve been actively looking at your page every day for this, because I love mine more than I’ve ever loved a synth
Andrew M I’d you get the blue or the black one ? How long was the wait to get yours ?
I'm super jealous
@@LocaliLLocano I initially got the black because damn it looked sleek, but I cancelled the preorder halfway through 2020 because I was anxious about it never coming to the states (which it hasn't) over that time I felt like I regretted not getting the more fun color, blue, so when I ordered via a small overseas music store, I got it in blue :) It arrived a week later, I've owned it for about two months now!
Andrew M hey Andrew did you get it at gear4music? Are you from the states ? How long was the ship time? I like the blue too. It reminds me of a Jupiter 6 and a sporty g shock watch.
@@LocaliLLocano I acquired mine at funkyjunk from the UK - spent 200 on shipping but got it much much earlier.
My Novation Summit is giving me dirty looks for watching this...
i was thinking the same thing XD
@@abhayasky What are the chances?
My ob-xa just waltzed over, hugged me and said "hello"
Lot of competition out there right now, but this is the best sounding poly I've heard demoed. Thanks Nick.
Me too!
Great review as always Nick. Been following the evolution of this beast for some years now and loved my first hands-on with it at Synthfest last year. Mine is now finally on her way and will be with me this Friday.... can't wait ;-)
How do you like it?
You should use this beauty on one of your Friday Fun Synth Jams. Thanks for this and all you do!
Whooooa I've been waiting for this review!!!! what an amazing instrument
obligatory “Nick make an ambient album” comment (no seriously though though please)
as usual, here to hear you say "beef" or "beefy"... :-)
T A S T Y
26:08
@@pigtoad3025 8:40
Good god. I seriously love the sound this thing makes. I truly hope they keep making great stuff like this.
Good God, what an amazing sounding synth.
thanks for the review!
I love the button choice they went with on this synth. Those are my favourite kind of buttons.
Great video and I love how this synth not only looks and sounds great but it doesn't have a screen.
For me, that makes it feel like something from back in the fay only it's brand new.
Well done UDO!
This thing will be my first synth. I've always wondered when to go the hardware way, because softwares nowadays brings you almost everything that hardware has to offer. This is new. This synth will make history!
@BC J the only other one that will buy will be the Essence FM from Kodamo (300 polyphony, 1800 oscillators), but that's it
EssenceFM is great 👍
Bristol should make a statue of George with his synth. I mean that in a good way of course.
Dangerous business being a statue these days.
Sounds HUGE. Best demo of it I've heard.
Oh dear, I need to spend a lot of money! Stunning synth. Great review, as always :)
Hardware wont ever die
Touching keys and knobs is simply unbeatable 😊👍🏼...
Not when it sounds as good as this does. There's no plugin on the planet that'll sound as impressive. Even stuff like Omnisphere sounds feeble and cheap compared to this thing.
@bookmarkthis it's a hybrid.
@bookmarkthis no. It’s not.
@bookmarkthis....the video in which the line "let's listen to the filter, because this is the analog part of the instrument" is said......
Beautiful sounding harmonics...and Nick is playing with larger chords and syncopation! Fabulous!
Sonicstate, keeping me skint since 2018
12:00 geez so good turn this into a hit please!!
man, the heft and breadth of those oscillators. I'm sure they won't get lost in a mix!
This is the best synth channel. Thanks!
Phenomenal sounding synth, and that binaural mode is awesome. Shame the cost jumped an extra grand from the original planned price, but I get it's hard for a smaller company to do this.
Yeah price point too high, although do want one!
For what you get it’s fair, those are amazing Rossum-designed Prophet filters, 12 of them. Not cheap.
Also it’s built like it costs. Internally, only top quality components that’ll last decades and decades supposedly. Behringer who makes affordable stuff doesn’t use these kind of high-quality capacitors etc. and you can definitely hear the difference. It costs like it sounds. Professional-level instrument here.
Your reviews are so comprehensive, thank you very much for all you do over the years, I really appreciate it. 7:55 Burning Down the House!!!! This synth does look like it burns down the house indeed!!!
I love the lack of screen and Jupiter-esque build - it's got something special going on.
The patch at 8:09 was from Burning Down the House (one of Talking Heads' finest moments), which is what you'll be doing with this beauty if you get one.
I can live with the lack of heavy duty patch storage (probably be updated in a firmware update) & the JX3P style sequencer (it's less rudimentary than that, and hopefully may be beefed up with a firmware update), as it sounds so superb.
It's like a cross between a Jupiter 6, 8 and even a DW8000 (ppg stuff sounded very noisy, which is due to the age of the ones I tried or the implementation of less than 16 bit technology), but with far more flexibility that is *easily accesible* due to minimal menu diving. I'm smitten with the layout and instant 'hero value' tweakability.
The price is a bit steep (no bitimbral function as of yet or ever?), but i hope it shifts units cause it deserves to be played and played.
Thanks for a great review 👍
Thank you for sharing, Amazing and unique Synth !!
Thanks for the thorough review. I'm reluctant reading manuals so I learned a thing or two about my Super 6 watching it :-D
A supersaw beast!! Love it
it’s a tiny thing but OMG the deeeeep clicks on those rotary switches!
Hi Nick, nice review. Looking forward to seeing it in person :) Would love to see some use of the External in/Envelope follower and the Hi-Pass filter. Lovely sounds!
Amazing Synthesizer, well done England!
8:07 Prophet 5 sync. Could be Burning down the house" by Berie Worrell, Japan "Ghosts," or Pink Floyd "one of my turns". Famous sync sound.
I see a Ped/CV modulation source, does it have a CV pitch out on the back and if yes, could you route it into the Pedal/CV in to have a rudimentary keytracking modulation source?
I got to play on one at Synth Fest UK and was blown away, sounded amazing
@Sonicstate Wicked review. Thank you.
I'm going to 2nd another comment posted earlier saying how out of many of the recent poly synths demo'd this year, this one has an excellent engine behind it. The brass sounds at 25:10 remind me of classic Tangerine Dream from their mid-80's time period. Good stuff!
What a stunner. The only synth that I'm drooling for.
I really wanted this thing at one point. Still kinda do. But with the PolyBrute coming out and at a cheaper price with way more effects, routing etc.. I feel that is the better buy at the moment. Especially after what they've done with the MatrixBrute. I think I'll wait about six months to a year and let them do all the firmware updates and stuff. That'll give me time to see how this thing w really sounds and works. Also gives me time to get rid of stuff so i can focus on a smaller set up. Thanks SonicLab
Polybrute does not sound like this.
WOW what a beautiful intro Nick!!! 19:19 is slapping.
I deeply enjoy those outro minitracks of yours Nick!
10:24 "We can Cross-Mod here., we can Cross-mod there, here a Cross, there a Cross everywhere a Cross Cross!" lol
It covers the fluffy and mellow registers so well 😍 And it seems the alternate waves exhibit a ppg like quality that I have yet to hear in the current wavetable offerings...
Beautiful sounding and looking synth
Great comments on here I learnt a lot
A software editor would be the icing on the cake .
This has to be the best synth I've ever heard, sharp yet smooth top end, fat low end and just glorious sounding overall, it's perfect soundwise IMO.
First impression: This synth looks massive for being a 49 keys. And the step in the UI reminds me of the small Behringer mixing consoles.
Some lush patches there, Nick. The more that I hear of this synth, the more that I long for one
ok, will be waiting for it to have a wave-table oscillator to mount own wave-forms on
I'm surprised by the sonic versatility of this synth, didn't think it would be this good.
Absolutely beautiful
Beautiful, clean design.
Reminds me of the SH201 BEAUTIFUL SYNTHS BOTH
great review - have been watching this synth with great interest. as a sweaty techno lord I would appreciate more depth in the sequencer, so for now I'm just watching and waiting to see what comes next! thanks sonicstate :)
You re the best Nick
colour me interested as well. I love the whole sound of it and the interface with that sweet 80s polysynth vibe. Sliders are always more appreciated than rotating knobs. Using an FPGA is a clever idea and i was wondering why this hasn't really been done yet on a bigger scale? As someone who's into exact retro console & home computer emulation, i've known the benefits if FPGAs for a while now and it's great to see them becoming a thing in Synthesizers as well :)
That first funky riff with some jazzy voicings is so unusual to Nick!
Nick,
Compared to the Polybrute?
What’s your opinion?
hmmm probably not quite comparable. They both seem to go different approaches and sound quite different. Especially the Polybrute since Arturia uses some really weird filters.
i find the poly so much more inspiring. i dont know... i cant follow up on the hype of the udo it def is a solid piece of equip and it does sound good. but thats about it. the lil tweaks like the stereospray through binaural circuitry is nice but nothing that really makes me astonished. And with the pricetag of 2,5K it def should do that. That being said its def overpriced. i understand its a lil boutique fabricator therefor prices need to be a lil higher but from my assumption its 1k too high. Its the Hippstersynth for me! Cool, retrolooks in layout, high quality but overpriced and nothing really new in the end.
When cycling through the arp modes, it seems the mode did not change. Could it be that a changed mode is only applied to subsequent key presses when hold is engaged?
This is a really nice sounding synth damn.
Sounds great.
Some nice kit, that binaural feature is rad!
been waiting for this.. awesome!
Love your channel, keep it up,
Does anyone know how the keybed's like for this? I tried out the Novation Summit and those keys were so stiff, it sort of makes me worried about the other synths in this price range :(
Take this beast to Jexus, NOW!
Great review!
Reminds me a little bit of the Jupiter-6. The Super 6 is pretty cool.
Beautiful!
Future CLASSIC!!!
Nice one Nick!
I own one and it's the best synth I ever had (and I had many). Every time I turn it on, even for 30 minutes I end up with one or two new sounds. That matters more than specs, as it UI makes a huge difference.
I feel the same! The decision on not to have a screen was so important. The instrument invites you to play and there is such a wide sweet spot nothing sounds bad on it!
Same here. I always end up with new amazing sounds in every session.
Same. No screen!!! We all use screens for our jobs and want the escape. The UI is refreshingly good
Well as much as I’d love a Juno 60 this would certainly do the trick
This sounds awesome!
User waves can be loaded. 4096 samples, int16, no Wav file header is the format I believe. I have made a ton of these, I am unfortunately still waiting for my preordered synth. Can't wait.
FPGA’s are really fascinating. It’s not specialized at all from the factory. In fact it’s the most moldable chip out there. It becomes specialized when you program it’s hardware(logic) to function in any way you want, and it can perform the tasks at mhz rates. You can even bake a CPU inside an FPGA.
I’ve been working with a fpga dev kit for a while now, and I plan to make my own synth.
Goodluck. I look forward to hearing your progressions.
@@mmhcreates Thank you. My supply chain is figured out. Now it’s all about R&D.
@@Robbinsffxi your getting close then. You may have your synth made and released soon. That's wicked.
Digital synths get a bad press because of DSP synths, the fixed clock rate makes aliasing an issue. Before DSP synth companies used to make dedicated digital ICs for the various stages or they would use a digital oscillator and analogue VCAs.
FPGA gets us back into the good old days of digital synths and samplers. Take the Fairlight for instance, every voice card would use a variable sample rate to alter the pitch of samples, this avoided a lot of the issues of later samplers. It also gives it that unique sound when pitching down samples as used extensively on the Terminator 2 soundtrack.
@@6581punk Luckily these things have been resolved with modern dsp synths as well. Synths like the accelerator, solaris and the nords use oversampling, which moves the aliasing outside hearing range. But FPGAs takes this to another level.
My take would be on making FM synthesis as clean as possible. Maybe it will extend the sweetspot. I will try to keep the processing at 32bit with 50+ MHz samplerate. And then convert it down to 32bit 192khz for the DAC. What happens before this stage is the most important.
Superwave TM technology! Fellow synth lovers, the future has just arrived....
Sounds, Very Nice ... that saw brass is kinda regal!
beside the price its fantastic
I need this in my life!
18:33
Of course , gearge said he might call it Batt mode
It's in the manual :)
IS there going to be a module as I am not buying a poly synth with only 4 octaves
There was a Q&A with George on gearslutz 11 months ago where I asked George about this.. this was his response:
Hi, I can't make promises about our new developments at this stage just in case we change! However, many people have shared your desires and I understand the motivations for such a unit. The challenge for us would be in miniaturising the UI without losing the magic. It may mean smaller faders and pots, which would be a compromise, or a rethink using encoders.
The desktop unit might actually be a completely unique entity in its own right and would not necessarily have to be a Super 6 in a rack, there is lots of options at this stage.
Sounds brilliant.
Sounds Amazing. Never afford one, sadly.
You can save up to get it 2nd hand in a year from now. But by then you'll be lusting for some other new synth.
I love love love your reviews, nick. But perhaps you could use headphones or IEMs, so the room reflections due to the use of speakers doesn't interfere when you're deep diving?
Those buttons remind me of my old Korg CX3
Gonna be scouring the used market for a deal on one.
USB over Midi sounds very interesting, any idea how it will work? :-)
it’s for the propriety UDO pianoroll printer :’)
UUHHHH absolutely here
Burning down the house !!
Love it ;))