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"Powerful polysynth by the Black Corporation, loosely based on the famous, ultra-rare Polykobol. At the moment we are waiting to get the 24V power supply to test this. Packing 6GBP."
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KIJIMI MK2 is crafted to be one of the most powerful polysynths ever built, all behind intuitive front-panel controls, from its continuous timbral variation to its exhaustive modulation matrix. The Black Corporation original features planetary-sized analog sound, inspired by the best of rare and classic synths, but unique to our own parallel galaxy.
"This is one of my favorite synths of all time and I suspect I will own one again in the future. I have also owned the Deckard's Dream and greatly prefer the Kijimi. It retains all the incredible MPE expression of the DDRM, yet extends the modulation possibilities vastly, has 4-pole filters, and is just generally more exciting if you ask me.
Check out Ricky Tines' video review." [posted here]
"Up for grabs is a rare Kijimi from Black Corp. A beautiful completely analog 8 voice synth which is a spot on Polykobol clone.
We acquired this Kijimi from Synthwave icon Com Truise last year.
Comes w/ power supply."
"Here are 9 patches using both the Kijimi and the Hydrasynth. The first 10 seconds of each sound are Hydrasynth only, then the Kijimi is added. Minimal reverb added, the clipping in the second-to-last sound is part of the Hydrasynth patch. Hydrasynth sounds are presets- in case you're playing along at home:
The Kijmi adds a nice body to the Hydrasynth. As much as I love the Hydrasynth, there's nothing analog about its sound. This combination could do some amazing evolving sounds but I don't have the patience for that."
"A few sounds of the Kijimi using the polyphonic aftertouch on the Hydrasynth Deluxe. The Kijimi is shown in panel mode so all controls represent their actual values."
"Recently, I got a Hydrasynth Deluxe and I've been so busy learning about it I haven't tried out its polyphonic aftertouch with the Kijimi until now. This is patch 48 from my bank LM and I've just changed the pressure to lower pitch by a 2nd.
It takes some getting used to! Especially using pitch bend successively for vibrato. But there's so many ways it can be useful and I'm having fun with the other aftertouch destinations now too. This should hold me over until the PAt keyboard version of the Kijimi with 88 waterfall keys and 16 voices that they are developing just for me."
"This is an A/B test of an RC filter PCB I made to filter out unwanted amp envelope artifact/aliasing noise on the Kijimi voice cards due to low-res DAC amp envelope outputs going into the VCA CV inputs, compared against the default AS3360 DIP ICs.
The PCBs I made just put an RC filter in front of the VCA CV inputs of AS3360D (SMT version) ICs.
This was just a quick reversible solution I put together, no direct soldering required on the voice cards or main board.
The first section demonstrates the unwanted aliasing using the default DIP ICs compared to the adapter PCB which filters it out.
The second section demonstrates how the adapter board reduces the strength of the envelope (which is a drawback, but I prefer that over the artifact noise)."
"Ran a MIDI file of 'Everything in Its Right Place' by Radiohead through the Kijimi. Limited the Kijimi to five voices (to better reflect a Prophet 5).
0:00 Melodic Techno Lead 0:44 Winter solstice Pad 2:20 Grind Bass 2:38 Skynet (Pad) 3:20 Boarder Bass into Rave 4:09 Autumn Pad 5:07 Chord Lead 5:42 Synthetic waltz 6:32 Aphexed Drone 6:56 Roth Bass 7:23 Don't like Sync Lead 7:44 Moving texture 7:55 Sync Pad 8:46 Speed Up Pad 9:30 Spacelab 10:02 Pulse Lead 10:49 FM Bass 11:12 FM Pad 13:07 Noise Bass 13:31 Air Pad 14:31 IDM Bass 14:50 House Pad 15:08 Thin Lead 15:20 Synth Pop Pulse 16:20 Legato FM Lead 16:49 Loving vectors 17:39 Andromeda Pad 19:22 Outro Pad 20:27 That's all folks
