Hot on the heels of the company's other Eurorack hardware comes Synthbox, a polyphonic wavetable synthesizer with built-in touchscreen. Here are all the details.
Synthbox is a new polyphonic Eurorack module from 1010music that lets anyone simply connect a MIDI controller and start jamming immediately with 50 sound presets. Then for the ultimate in tonal tweakability, the built-in touchscreen provides total control for choosing and shaping waveforms, adjusting envelopes, adding modulation, applying filters, effects and composing with step sequencers.
In addition, hard-wired CV inputs and external clock or MIDI sync allow easy interfacing with other Eurorack modules. Featuring an expandable library of 100 wavetables, high-quality 24-bit audio path, and versatile control - synthbox looks like a lot of fun. Check out the brief video demo below.
Here's a list of the main features:
MIDI controllable with support for velocity, pitch bend, and modulation wheel
CV controllable with pitch, gate, and 3 assignable modulators per voice
24 bit DACs and internal processing
8 wavetable oscillators, 2 per voice
4 waveform oscillators, 1 per voice
2 envelopes, 2 LFOS, and a step sequencer per voice
Dual biquad resonant filters (configurable as HP or LP)
Global flanger, distortion, and stereo delay effects
Semi-modular control
Stereo or individual voice outputs
100 wavetables
50 presets
User wavetables via WAV files and a microSD card
26 HP Eurorack compatible. +12V: 350mA, -12V: 0mA, 5V: 0mA
Hollin Jones was classically trained as a piano player but found the lure of blues and jazz too much to resist. Graduating from bands to composition then production, he relishes the chance to play anything with keys.
A sometime lecturer in videographics, music production and photography post production, Hollin has been a freelance writer on music technology and Apple topics for well over a decade, along the way publishing several books on audio software. He has been lead writer at a number of prominent music and technology publications.
As well as consultancy, full-time journalism, video production and professional photography, he occasionally plays Hammond, Rhodes and other keys for people who ask nicely.
Hollin is Contributing Editor at Ask.Audio.
Nice! 1010music makes some really interesting modules. Also, according to their website, their series 1 modules can be converted between each other.
"If you own a bitbox [sampler module] you can convert it to an fxbox [fx module] or a synthbox, and vice versa. When you buy one of 1010music’s Series 1 Modules you get access to the firmware for all the modules in the Series." - 1010music
That is really, really awesome.
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