MATRIXSYNTH: Twisted-Electrons New MEGAfm YM2612 FM chip Synth


Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Twisted-Electrons New MEGAfm YM2612 FM chip Synth


Published on Jan 14, 2020 Twisted Electrons

Piced at €474.00 [roughly $527.62] excl. VAT




via Twisted-Electrons
"We are proud to present MEGAfm, a result of several years of development.

MEGAfm uses and abuses the vintage YM2612 FM chip originally found in the Megadrive/Genesis games console.

MEGAfm ships early March

BEAUTIFUL DIRT
Unlike most FM synthesizers that are very clean and digital, the YM2612 has very characterful tone allowing a broad sound palette ranging from beautiful plucked strings to growly distorted bass lines.

TACTILE OPERATORS
Hardware FM synthesizers are infamous for their reduced controls and complexity to program, with tiny LCD screens and only a couple of buttons to operate a load of menus…
With its 32 operators faders, 14 knobs and 15 buttons MEGAfm offers unprecedented hands-on FM control!


Every knob and fader can easily be modulated by the easy to use LFOs.

MAKE IT A DOUBLE!
The YM2612 chip offers 6 voices of crispy FM, 4 operators per voice and 8 algorithms.
MegaFM features 2 chips for a total of 12voices spread across two outputs (or summed to one)

FEATURES
12 Voice Polyphony
Dual YM2612 FM chips (included)
8 Algorithms
50 preset (saving to any slot) and easy upload/download of banks to and from computer vis SYSEX.
Preset randomiser
4 Voicing modes (Poly12, stereo/wide6, special CH3 mode, 12 voice unison with detune/fat knob
Stereo or Mono output (1 chip per channel or both chips summed)
32 Sliders for total control of all 4 operators
14 knobs
15 buttons
23 LEDS, LED numeric display.
3 lfos to modulate any parameter
7-mode arpeggiator with transposable Sh-style step sequencer
Vibrato with depth and rate
MIDI clock on all LFOs, ARP and Vibrato
Dual 6.35mm TS output and 6.35mm Stereo Headphones output
Brushed/Anodized Aluminum Case
Sturdy metal panel bolted potentiometers
DIN5 MIDI input with MIDI channel learn and thru/out"

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