C21 Hard Synths
Now it’s time for Oli from Groove Criminals to detail his two synth packs which again have been neatly divided, this time by hard and soft…
“We’ve concentrated on a few synths that we love: Korg Volcas, TE Pocket Operators, Behringer reissues, Arturia Microfreak, to name a few.
“Sadly the Prophet Rev 2 is only on loan to us but it’s a lovely modern polysynth with a proud history. We love the ease of modulating any of the controls: everything from spiky rhythmic percussion sequences to lush moving pads. We love the Mother 32 and Monologue monosynths for their powerful sound and quirky nature. The Mother 32 with its extensive semi-modular patchbay easily talks to our Eurorack/CV setup. For modern synths there’s our Soma Lyra-8: eight voices, paired in four groups of two and played using touch contacts rather than a keyboard, it’s a drone/ noise/strange texture machine and we love it. We’ve also included a few textures fed through a Moogerfooger LPF with various expression inputs being controlled by the OBNE Expression ramper.”