Author: robinv

Ballista Blast is a hybrid synth voice with classic waveforms, wavetables and some funky FM with multiple algorithms. It has a great filter, useful envelope and lots of CV for modulation.

This perky little VCA/Envelope combo has found itself to be very useful in my rack. It’s a VCA with a Decay envelope built in that you can also feed out to a filtercutoff which saves you a bunch of modules.

It’s an Analog Resonant Phase Rotator, model of 1977, reworked to give a 4/6-stage phaser, three resonance feedback modes and an LFO. You can also pop an Allpass filter expansion board on the back for up to 22 stages.

Does this compact 4-voice analogue synth have what it takes to be a serious synth? The Fourm is neat, capable, sounds like a Sequential synth and has an elegant simplicity that really appeals to me.

My favourite all time MIDI and CV controller keyboard got an update. It’s taken onboard everything from the KeyStep Mk2 and sprinkled in some deeper levels of hands-on control.