cable_b's Reviews
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87
Underrated digital gem
The Microkorg's edgy cousin. Don't buy this thing if you're after analog sounds, it gets quite digital sounding but in a really cool way. It really excels with atmospheric sweeps and ambient pads, but can definitely hold it's own with basic synth basses and leads as well. The decimator effect (bit-crusher) is the secret sauce - use one of the on-board bell or choir samples and patch a light, randomized LFO to the bit-crush level to add some glitchy noisy flavor. Can't get the vocoder to sound nice to me, it's just too glossy and clean for my taste but that's not why I bought this thing so still five stars from me.
Preferred Settings + Usage:
Weird glitchy stuff
87
Solid boost/overdrive - underrated high-gain distortion
This thing rivals my turbo RAT clone (black secret) as a high gain distortion. Try the rat running low gain (8'o'clock) into this thing at 3'o'clock and the note clarity is unbeatable. Only minor gripe is that the treble is like an ice pick to the face unless the tone knob is below noon. But once it's in that sweet spot its a dark, gnarly machine. Currently running it as a slightly dirty boost into a low gain RAT.
Preferred Settings + Usage:
Level - max
Gain - 9'o'clock
Tone - 10'o'clock