dawnchaser's Electronic Synth Setup

At first I, like just about everyone else, was fooled by the challenging interface and wonky factory presets. I wondered why I even bought it, for the first few weeks after it showed up in the mail. But when I really dug into this thing, all the sounds came out. Huge Trance SuperSaws. Meaty Deep House basses. Gnarly DnB Reeses. Filthy Dubstep growls. Haunting Ambient pads and atmospheres. This this is a pint-sized Virus at 1/4 the price. I've written whole songs using the Blofeld. This synth could be a desert island synth for someone with a decent mixer to amplify it, and some good FX plugins to run recordings through.

Those are kind of its weak points. It's a bit on the quiet side, even with the Filter Drive modified to boost the signal a little. And most of the FX are pretty wack. The Phaser and Reverb in particular are... not great. This is a synth that really benefits from external FX (plus, turning off internal chorus/reverb/delay frees up a bit of DSP, giving you more voices to work with). And if you like the S&H Effect buried in the Triple FX section, because the Rate Reduction effect IS cool, unfortunately for you, you cannot modulate its intensity, or indeed, any of the FX values at all. So talking basses using modulated rate reduction FX don't really work on this synth. Which is a minor bummer. Otherwise, the Blofeld is a beast and definitely is worth having in the studio.