"TINRS / Synton Fenix IV Modular Synthesizer - in excellent to new condition. Arrives with everything that they arrive with new: bamboo stand, power supply, all patch cables, bamboo 1/8" to banana jack converter boat, rack ears for rack mounting, book manual, pin, stickers and the bag/backpack."
"Includes all optional extras:
Rack ears - We’ve had brackets made that allow you to screw your Fenix IV into your 19” studio rack. Solid steel with the same powder coating as the case
Bamboo stand - A beautiful way to stand up the Fenix facing you. Made out of the same bamboo as the sides. Comes apart and folds away flat to come with you everywhere. Made by Gould Cases who also made our sides.
Banana box - A little adapter between the old and the new Fenixes. With this you can patch 8 bananajacks (plus one extra for ground) to convert into 8 minijacks. Bamboo box with our familiar colourful anodized aluminium front.
Even more patch cables - Your Fenix IV already comes with a bag of 43 patch cables in various lengths and various plug colours that match the Fenix IV colour scheme for different signals. If you think 43 cables will not be enough for you, you can order an extra set."
"The unit sounds amazing and has extraordinary capabilities to match. There are some small cosmetic blemishes above the low pass gate, filter, and noise module sections (can't always be seen except in certain light) as well as the barrel edge of the headphone jack, so I took extra close ups of these areas for your inspection. These are cosmetic only, functionality is 100%! The unit comes with the optional bamboo stands, double count pack of TiNRS custom cables, soft carry case, pin, cable ties, power supply, manual, and 19" rack rails.
A couple features that stood out to me on this unit, besides its pleasing warm sound, are the digital system behind the scenes that allow for highly programmable midi to CV conversion for associated jacks as well as system synchronized triggering, at divisions or multiplications of the system clock, including customizable time signatures for easy made polyrhythms. Also, behind the scenes, there are 3 separate quantizers - one for the digital osc, one for digital filter, and one for the sequencer. And they're as easy to use as just selecting which keys in an octave you want enabled individually for each one. This really allows one to use its extensive modulation capabilities to affect those modules in ways the user can shape to be very melodically pleasing, if desired. And speaking of modulation, the wobbler lfo has many exotic shapes and behaviors, and offers two outputs of itself, one of which has cv controllable phase shift from the other. And finally, the triple lfo was also a favorite due to having two phase cv able copies of itself for shifting synced modulations."
"Afternoon session with Fenix II & III, Ace Tone Rhythm Ace FR-6, Waldorf Q.
To make it sound better I'd need to spend way more time on this patch, at least to mix the different voices properly, make a decent beat, play some notes by hand and so on, but I can't because of my health, so I'm posting this here and now."
"I like the sound on the phaser on the Fenix II. On the monitors it did sound bombastic, really impressive with some feedback.
New ideas came to mind related to this patch while watching the result on this video, so I'll see once in the studio if I decide to go further with it or not. It will also depend if the Fenix is still in tune. I spent one hour only with tuning and (re)calibration of the quantizers."
"Patch Point is producing 100 Fénix II PP analog modular synthesizers in small batches.
The first batch is 30, and there are 14 left available.
The Fénix II PP is a direct descendant of the Fénix II in collaboration with the designer, Mr. Bert Vermuelen of the original Synton design team.
It is a fully analog synthesizer, with the same components as the original Fénix II, with some upgrades.
VCF3 - Formant Filter - a new modern design using chips instead of vactrols which allows for voltage controlled resonance and an expanded frequency range.
VCF4 - LPG - a new modern design using chips instead of vactrols which allows for an expanded frequency range, and quicker response, and more accurate control of the length parameter.
Delay - The Delay is now a dual delay with a 3rd switch position. delay 1, delay 2, or in the middle both delays mixed! with the additional jack of a second frequency parameter for the 2nd delay. You can now CV control both delays pitches with a separate jack.
3 VCO’s, 3 different VCO's ( Inputs CV, FM, PWM, Sync e.o, Output square, triagle, sawtooth and some has puls, sub, sine e.o) )
4 different VCF´s ( SVF, 24dB Lp, BPF, 12dB Lp). ( Input CV modulation, SVF has Q-CV control
3 EGR and 4 VCA’s and 5 LFO’s. (Many modules are voltage controlled)
7 Mixers ( 3 audio mixers and 4 DC-Audio mixers).
1 Phaser and 1 Delay (BDD). ( off course voltage controlled)
1 8 step analog sequencer with own clock.
1 Waveshapers, 1 wavemultiplier and 1 full wave rectifier. ( voltage controlled, except for the rectifier )
"The track is based on Synton Fenix II & III, plus modded Vermona ER-9, recorded to a stereo track in one take.
I'm also using my Buchla system to assist the Synton Fenix II & III patch for the digital delay coming from my Scrotum Lab 'Espace Temps', the sample played by my Kesako 'Player & Reverb' module and the noise from 266e 5sent to Fenix phaser with a lot of feedback)."
"Sorry for the terrible video quality. A shame cause I did it to show some patches using the phaser in feedback mode, connecting its output to its input.
I should have checked the recording after making the focus manually (obv. totally wrong!).
I’m sharing nevertheless as the audio is not affected.
Here I explain how I use the phaser in feedback mode:"
"I'm glad to have finally finished this afternoon the modifications on my Rhythm Ace FR-2L.
TRIG IN for each instrument.
9 different CLOCK OUT (diverse divisions).
External CLOCK IN to synchronize to other gear."
"TINRS / Synton Fenix IV Modular Synthesizer - in excellent to new condition. Comes with everything that they came with new: bamboo stand, power supply, all patch cables, bamboo 1/8" to banana jack converter boat, rack ears for rack mounting, certificate and pin, and the bag/backpack."
