Creamware Minimax

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"The Minimax ASB (“Authentic Sound Box”) is a tone module — no physical keyboard — whose layout mimics the Minimoog, albeit on a slightly smaller scale. It isn’t just a controller, as all the sound electronics are built-in as hardware; the Remote software included with the package (more on this later) is for editing only. After the knobs and switches, the next thing you notice is the wood side panels. Yes, wood, as in “comes from trees.” Just below the front panel is where it becomes less traditional: There’s a 3-digit/7-segment LED display, and 14 old-school switches (with LEDs that indicate status, just like an old Prophet or Oberheim) for selecting presets, setting up MIDI, editing effects, and the like. I thought that the slightly smaller size might be a problem, but in practice, there’s more than enough room between switches that you don’t have to be ultra-careful when you move them — you’re not going to bump into something else. The Minimax’s architecture is the same as the Minimoog’s, which means it’s the same as 4,759 other synths, hard and soft. Three oscillators (#3 capable of serving as an LFO) feed a mixer, which also accepts an external signal input and white noise. A Minimax ASB “bonus feature” feedback switch connects the synth out back to the external in, so if you turn up the input control, you can get some highly resonant and unusual sounds. The mixed sound goes to a 24dB/octave lowpass filter and amp, both controlled by ADSR (attack-decay-sustain-release) four-stage envelopes — although the release is keyed to the decay time, and enabled only if the “Decay On” switch is activated in the Controllers section. ................Specifications Hardware synthesizer Virtual analog Circuit Modelling Number of Voices 12 44.1 kHz (internal oversampling) 32 bit 32 bit Audio Paths Analog Inputs: 2 x 1/4 inch (6,3mm) unbalanced Analog Outputs: 2 x 1/4 inch (6,3mm) unbalanced MIDI: In, Out, Thru USB: Full Speed USB rev 1.1 Power Input: 12V AC/DC"