Whoa, Radikal

[Niall Munnelly]

Joerg Schaaf has realised that the Spectralis alone won't
pay the bills, and he's got some great tricks up his
sleeve.  This "mainframe" talk reminds me of PPG, NED's
Synclavier and the Fairlight.  I've never really lusted for
the Spectralis, but I'm a keen fan of Schaaf's design and
vision.  Maybe this will be the synth that puts him back in
my studio.


At the moment, a lot of companies are showing tracked down
products like the Access Virus Snow or the Waldorf Blofeld.
By reducing the number of hardware editing elements the
price can be dropped down to entry level products. That is a
good evolution for users, who can't effort 2000 euros for
the Virus TI or even more for the Stromberg. The Hybrid
Elements Synthesizer does the same in a little different
way. We have not reduced the number of editing elements so
much. Instead of that the Hybrid Elements Synthesizer can be
bought at an entry level price and can be upgraded with
additional hardware synthesizers that will all be controlled
by the main unit. Like on the Spectralis the user interface
controls the different engines the mainframe holds. The
Hybrid Elements will run with up to 4 different Hybrid
engines at a time. The user can decide if he wants wavetable
synth with stereo multimode filters or for example a sample
engine with drum programming functions. The different
synthesis hardware modules can easily be exchanged and the
user decides which kind of engines he wants to use in his
desktop module. Another 19'' frame will become available
that can hook up the synthesis modules as well without any
editing elements. Sounds and sequence patches can be
exchanged with the desktop version with a memory flash card
or via MIDI dump.

http://www.spectralis.de/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1011#top

-- 
Yours,
Niall.
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