Combining that in various ways with the envelope and filter (with the resonance turned up) creates some really wild complex evolving sounds.

It has everything you need to get started with some cool sounds

Want a more complex sound, just snap another oscillator between the first one and the speaker

We'd all heard the beeps and whoops of Sci-Fi movie special effects, the seemingly chaotic sounds of Musique Concrete, and of course the strains of the Theramin, but here was an electronic instrument that not only made sounds very much like those of traditional instruments, it was capable of playing music from the standard classical repertoire

We'd all heard the beeps and whoops of Sci-Fi movie special effects, the seemingly chaotic sounds of Musique Concrete, and of course the strains of the Theramin, but here was an electronic instrument that not only made sounds very much like those of traditional instruments, it was capable of playing music from the standard classical repertoire

These instruments weren't cheap, either; a very basic set of modules could easily cost more than a new car, and produced, by today's standards, very crude sounds

Analog synthesizers started to become popular again even as digital synths were able to produce sounds almost indistinguishable from real instruments

After a few hours, my son was messing around with this all by himself and yes -- creating things that made annoying sounds

But these are all very small quibbles compared to the sheer joy of building something and playing with the different parameters to create some amazing sounds

It is still a great toy for those inclined to this sort of thing, and I had a great time making all sorts of strange and funny electronic sounds and

Considering this is a bunch of bits designed I thought to teach kids about the various parts of a synthesizer, the sound is quite amazing when patched out.

Curiously, as synthesizers became cheaper and more powerful, many musicians started longing for the crude sounds of those early synths

Terrific analog sounds and sequencer on the top.

As a bonus, it's actually a fairly versatile synth for the price, so adventurous musicians and producers may find they can create some useful sounds with it

I think they should improve the sequencer a bit, I was hoping for a loop option to actually create some music instead of endlessly warping sounds.

In case you're not familiar with old-school analog synthesizers, they were typically modular in nature (often requiring patch cords to connect the different modules together) and basically consisted of one or more voltage controlled oscillators (variable tone generators), a low-frequency oscillator, voltage controlled filters (variable sound modifiers), adjustable envelope generators, white noise generators and some effects -- you essentially generate one or more tones and then mess around with the pure sound to simulate musical instruments or to create a totally new musical instrument sound

Playing with this is like being a mad-sound-scientist