{"id":130776,"date":"2021-05-14T08:05:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T07:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=130776"},"modified":"2021-05-14T08:05:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T07:05:06","slug":"modal-electronics-skulptsynth-se-four-part-synthesizer-with-improved-ergonomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/modal-electronics-skulptsynth-se-four-part-synthesizer-with-improved-ergonomics\/","title":{"rendered":"Modal Electronics SkulptSynth SE: Four-part synthesizer with improved ergonomics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With SkulptSynth SE, Modal Electronics has tried to improve the experience of using the tool, and even lower its price by one and a half times. At the same time, the equipment of the novelty is practically not cut. SkulptSynth SE is a four-voice analog synthesizer. On board there are 32 oscillators with a two-pole resonant filter, the frequency range of which can be tuned from low to high frequencies in a band-pass version.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/140025d-6d5c-4372-922d-2337a7ee4dac.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1046\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Special curves can be used for filter, gain and modulation.\u00a0There are two Low Frequency Oscillators (LFOs), one of which is polyphonic.<\/p>\n<p>The synthesizer does not directly support MIDI Polyphonic Expression, but connecting a compatible controller will allow you to get a budget option already with the capabilities of a musical instrument.\u00a0All this is complemented by an arpeggiator function, a 256-step sequencer and built-in distortion and delay effects.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/4ff220c-1f25-457a-a30f-5a7386079167.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"577\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The novelty is connected via MIDI and USB, there is a headphone control, supplemented by an analog line-out, as well as an analog sync input and output.\u00a0The novelty can also be used autonomously &#8211; there is a battery power supply.<\/p>\n<p>In the US, the SkulptSynth SE synthesizer will cost $ 200.<\/p>\n<p>[ratemypost]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With SkulptSynth SE, Modal Electronics has tried to improve the experience of using the tool, and even lower its price by one and a half times. At the same time, the equipment of the novelty is practically not cut. SkulptSynth SE is a four-voice analog synthesizer. On board there are 32 oscillators with a two-pole [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/modal-electronics-skulptsynth-se-four-part-synthesizer-with-improved-ergonomics\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":130780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-130776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hi-fi","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}