Go wild with the Body Synths Metal Fetishist, a patchable percussive Synthesizer with a lot of character and randomness.
Superbooth 2024 is fast approaching. In just over two months, Andreas Schneider’s big Synthesizer celebration will take place again in Berlin. A lot of new releases are expected
The new synth company Body Synths will also have a booth there. What they will show is not a secret but already known.
Body Synths Metal Fetishist
It will be the Metal Fetishist. The name sounds like a new metal band or a product from the guitar tech world. But don’t worry, I don’t worry, I will not cover guitars.
Metal Fetishist is a new digital percussive Synthesizer with a small patch matrix on the edge. The engine consists of a single two-wave oscillator with pitch modulation, a white noise source, and a resonant multimode filter (LP/HP).
For extra spice and crunch, it has a built-in digital distortion section with both downsampling and overdrive. The word digital sets the menu-diving bells ringing. Not here. The developer designed it so that it can be tweaked and patched in the analog way aka knob per function.
Randomness
The sounds can be played manually with the big red trigger button. Alternatively, you can explore the more exciting built-in sequencer. This is, however, not a traditional one. It uses two randomness generators that output CV and triggers linked to the random step mod and random skips section.
At every trigger step of the sequence, the random step mod section creates a new modulation signal that can modify the pitch, noise, or filter cutoff. The modulation amount is fully adjustable.
With the random skips, you can control whether the current step of the sequencer will trigger. All this is tweakable on the fly with the skipping amount at every sequence step. There is one more important knob.
By default, the sequencers run in random mode. STEPS, however, is capable of locking the previously generated random step values into repeatable sequences. Lengths of 2, 4, 8, 10, 16, or 32 are available.
On the top left, Metal Fetishist has a little Eurorack-compatible 8-socket patch bay with various outputs (trigger, clock, step mod), and CV inputs (noise, cutoff, pitch, clock, and trigger).
According to Body Synths, you can create simple kicks, harsh noise, fuzzy drones, digital glitches, and plucky microtonal melodies with it. Take a look at the sounds in the linked videos. Sounds very fat and in your face.
First Impression
The simple concepts can continue to fascinate. You don’t have to have tons of features to have fun. The demos sound very tempting. Reminds me of DFAM but more experimental and dirty.
Body Synths Metal Fetishist will be available in Spring 2024. Price TBA. The developer will also showcase it in May at Superbooth 2024.
More information here: Body Synths
C’mon guys, that hand pointing to the big red button isn’t needed! Big red buttons scream PUSH by themselves. 🙂
“C’mon guys, that hand pointing to the big red button isn’t needed! Big red buttons scream PUSH by themselves.”
Especially since it is RED and dead center!
Nice to see an amazingly simple synth sound so great.
This thing sounds fun!
I see the hand pointing at the trigger button as tongue in cheek fascist joke. I love it. This synth is clearly marketed towards a specific kind of consumer in mind. If this is less than $450 it’ll be an instant buy for me. It sounds and looks hard af. Obvious pairings would be a DFAM and a Quadrantid Swarm. Maybe even a Lyra-8. I’m very excited about it.
The hand comes from our love for 1920’s avant-garde Dada art. We know it’s unnecessary but we like how it looks.
I like the reference. There’s no harm in it.