EDP Electronic Dream Plant Wasp Synthesiser

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"I've owned quite a few classic synths like the Minimoog, Oberheim OB-8 and Yamaha CS80, but none of them is quite as extraordinary as the Wasp. Designed in Oxford by Chris Huggett, the Wasp is an early digitally-controlled analogue synth in a unique injection-moulded plastic case

The Wasp looks like a toy, and sounds pretty tinny through the built-in speaker, but plugged into a mixing desk it sounds enormous. The sounds seem to come from nowhere with no background noise. Just huge, clean monstrous synth sounds that you couldn't imagine coming from any other synth

At the heart of the Wasp are two digitally-controlled oscillators and a superb filter. There's a third "control" oscillator for LFO and filter modulation, switchable between random, sine, two sawtooth and square wave shapes. There's also a noise source. There's an envelope shaper for the VCA and one for the filter. The filter is very flexible - both the control oscillator and the envelope generator control the filter via +/- pots

The main oscillators can be switched off and the filter & noise source used to generate wind & noise effects - which it's very good at - or the filter Q can be pushed right up, virtually into oscillation, to generate spooky water drop effects with the control oscillator on random

It's a monophonic synth, in the tradition of the great Mini Moog and, like the Moog, can generate monster bass sounds. The Wasp is cleaner sounding than the Moog and it's also brighter and deeper"