Can a touchscreen interface and Eurorack fit together? 1010music try to connect both worlds together and continues today with a third product that comes with the same philosophy. SynthBox is a new touchscreen digital polyphonic Synthesizer for the Eurorack format. It’s based on wavetable synthesis and is a complete voice that you can simply use a full Synthesizer. Simply connect a MIDI controller and start jamming immediately. The touchscreen is mainly there to offer direct access to all available features and parameters.
So seen is the Synthbox a very powerful module that comes with a wavetable engine, two envelopes, 2 LFO’s, a step sequencer and a range of effects. User wavetables in the wav format can be imported to the module via the microSD slot. In addition, hard-wired CV inputs and external clock or MIDI sync allows musicians a way to interact with other Eurorack modules. Audio is transmitted via a global stereo out or via individual voice outputs.
The question is still there: Can a touchscreen interface and Eurorack fit together? From my personal experience with Eurorack Synthesizer, it doesn’t fit well because people mainly love this format because you have everything in your hands. You can turn a knob, take a cable and patch it to the position you want. The biggest problem with touchscreens is that the haptic feedback is missing. Your touch a screen but you don’t get back a feeling what you are doing. If you turn a real filter knob per example so you can adjust the filter precisely and you have a feeling for it. This feeling doesn’t exist in touchscreen interfaces since you touch a virtual knob here.
Even if I haven’t tested yet the modules themselves, how the workflow with a touchscreen in Eurorack is, I doubt that I will love it very much. Especially in Modular Synthesizer I like to separate the world of hardware and software because. Especially in Eurorack, I want to grab knob and feel the haptic of these. Nonetheless, the new 1010music SynthBox is a cool new Eurorack module that includes a complete synth voice with everything you need.
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
The new 1010music Synthbox is now available for $599.95 directly from 1010music or through a fine network of dealers. If you are user of the bitbox (sampler) or fxbox, you can download for free this firmware upgrade and transform your module in a wavetable Synthesizer.
More informations here: 1010music
Available here: bitbox
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