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This also affects the price - to our customers' benefit, of course. Apart from the shop, you can discover a wide variety of additional things - forums, apps, blogs, and much more. Always with customised added value for musicians. I produce instrumental synth pop, darkwave music and was looking for a mono synth that has a raw analogue character mainly for leads, plucks and wet, squelchy filter sounds. The Dark Energy II did not disappoint! Even a simple, untweaked saw wave has its own character and the whole synth has a distinctive analogue sound you will never get from a soft synth.
The oscillator: what I really like here is the PWM which sounds so fat and kind of special. You can create big leads with it, my trick is to record it twice with a slightly different filter setting and pan the two recordings to opposite sides. I also experiment a lot with the non linear FM, it's great to create percussive and unusual sounds and it's totally unpredictable (which I love!).
The filter: this one has its own character, can sound wet and smooth, can scream and rumble. It also self oscillates and although it's only 12 dB/oct it can produce big subs. The LFOs: what I really like here is that they go up to the audio range. Experiment with them using FM or PWM to get some unique and interesting sounds.
The envelope: it has 3 modes and the fastest setting is crazy fast! It's great to create some aggressive percussive, poppy sounds. The VCA: it sounds super, you can overdrive it to get crunchy results. The only thing I'm not totally happy with here is that it's exponential which means the synth will never go completely silent (I got this info from the manufacturer). But you can solve this by editing your recordings or simply using a gate. Being semi modular gives you the option to use it in a modular setup, connect with other synths etc. Using a single patch cable you can for example control the filter cutoff with velocity or other MIDI CC.
The synth also works as a MIDI to CV converter which is a big plus. All in all it's a great synth with a unique signature sound, good MIDI implementation and expanding possibilities at a friendly price tag.
Ahead of the Doepfer has announced the Dark Energy III, the latest in their Dark Energy series of analog synthesizers. The Dark Energy III is a monophonic stand-alone synthesizer with USB and Midi interface. The sound generation and all modulation sources are 100% analog, only the USB/Midi interface contains digital components. It is built into a rugged black metal case with wooden side plates. High quality potentiometers with metal shafts are used and each potentiometer is fixed to the case (no wobbly shafts and knobs).
The company says that the main differences between II and III are an improved VCO (no warm-up period, additional triangle waveform, wider frequency range), resettable LFOs, improved ADSR and a lot of internal access points for DIYers. Features: VCO:. Triangle based, 10 octaves frequency range. Tune control and Octave switch – 1 / 0 / +1 octave. FM input with selectable source (ADSR / off / LFO1). Manual PW control and PWM with selectable source (ADSR / off / LFO2) for rectangle wave.
Waveform switch. Additional external CV inputs for frequency and pulsewidth of the rectangle? VCF:. 12dB Multimode VCF with continuous mode control (lowpass – notch – highpass – bandpass).
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Manual Frequency control and FM with selectable source (ADSR / off / LFO2). Resonance control, up to self oscillation. Additional external CV and external audio input? VCA:. Linear control scale. Manual Amplitude control and AM with selectable source (ADSR / off / LFO1). Additional external CV input?
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Envelope:. Improved ADSR type with 3-position range switch. Additional external gate input. Control LED? LFO:. Two resettable LFOs (external Reset inputs). manual frequency control and 3-position range switches.
Waveform switches triangle/square. LED controls Doepfer adds that there are lots of internal access points for DIY applications or modification of the socket functions (e.g. VCO outputs triangle, sawtooth, rectangle, hardsync, softsync, linear FM, VCF outputs L/H/B, ADSR output and A/D/S/R CV inputs, LFO outputs triangle and square). See the Doepfer for more info. Wish they figured out how to do the AWESOME DE1 24db filter sound again. I’ve know they were old chip stock But we can’t get close with smd or something?
How long does a minimoog patent last, just start tweaking there lol! So I see a lot of CV in, no CV out? Like, isn’t that missing literally half the point of modular? It’s literally super easy to have internally wired “defaults” between units that unwire when there’s a jack It’s on every jacks data sheet. At least “diy internal points are ID’d. There are so many $500-700 little standalone “modulars” (dark energy, mother 32, 0 coast, Pittsburgh SV1 or earlier system, etc) that all just DE is really an analog desktop mono synth.
0 coast does grunge waveshape super well, instead of other stuff M32 has a really cool sequencer but then a really minimal synth SV1 is cool, but really needs the other module (and Pittsburgh gives zero $hits about condensed module. Simple 2 vca that’ll be 8hp. Like dotcom format cut into a Euro height?) Simple stuff, but kinda like a Doepfer in a way.
And the arturia stuff “seems” cool, but terrible reliability, bad customer service, lots of CV ”oddness”. Wish for a Erebus but CV I guess. Super excited to see what the DIY guys do, I mean they made those korg toy monotrons full modular units and built crazy controls and sequencers for the werkstatt etc.
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