Studio Electronics Boomstar 4075 oldschool analog goa jam

Published on Nov 12, 2014 Lothar303

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"A Demonstration of some of the more harsh and upfront modulation capabilities of the version with the ARP filter. I put a simple backing loop for the tweaks to show them a bit in context.

I'm running two arps (Cream and Blue Arp) in serial, and sometimes they crap out a bit with the notes, sorry.

Lots of sync, filter and ring cross mod here. Some feedback here and there, but not really that much. Amp overdrive is not on, but I might have or had not connected the osc out to ext in, I frankly don't remember anymore. Sub osc is off all the time.

The synth is very well thought out, all controls have a pretty sensible range, and you can see the years of synth design experience in the architecture clearly. The sound is clear but not too sharp, and the ARP filter sounds good. Not very liquid or crisp, but more like a well worn antique chair that's just nice to sit on with the right places smoothed out, and all the joints radiate carpentry made with love :) It responds to frequency modulation pretty well, altough the sound with audio rate modulations is a bit brown.

There is a limiter (Izotope Alloy 2) to keep the levels constant, and a delay, just to show a little bit better how the unit sits in a mix. I will upload a version without the backing loop and delay to Soundcloud. No other effects used."