Into The Abyss - A Look at the Greek Poly With Gaz Williams

Whilst here to film another item, Gaz Williams - regular contributor to Sonicstate and  guest on our Sonic TALK podcast brought his recently acquired Abyss - the four voice poly synth from Greek manufacturer Dreadbox-FX.  Gaz has been hankering after one of these for some time, so was delighted to be able to show us around his new synth.

Its an informal journey around some of the Abyss features and sounds. We do hope to get hold of one for  review at some point in the future.

Available now £999

Features:

• 4 Voice Analog Synthesizer
• All Analog Discrete Components
• 4 playing modes : Unison, Polyphony, Chords (+ user chords)
• – Multi channel (multitimbral over selected controls)
• 1 VCO + 1 Sub Oscillator per Voice
• White Noise Generator
• Independent Wave shaping Modulator
• Polyphonic Glide function
• 4 independent LFOs (1 for each voice) to control Vibrato
• Variable Speed Depth and Delay
• Vibratos can be set out of phase via the Detune (Vibrato) control
• VCO autotune function
• 24 dB/oct 4-pole Resonating Low Pass Filter (based on the Murmux series)
• Dedicated ADSR Envelope Generator to the Filter
• Velocity sensitivity over the EG Attack Rate or the EG Level
• Dedicated ADSR Envelope Generator to the VCA
• OTA Drive circuit
• Reflector: 1024 BBD Delay for Chorus/Flanger or Static Flangers
• Hybrid Delay Circuit as found on the Erebus
• 4-stage Analog Phase Shifter
• 2 Analog LFOs with 4 waves each to control the Filter, Reflector, Delay, Phaser
• 4 Modulation Wheel Choices
• CV Control over Filter, Phaser, Delay and Reflector
• Dry output (without effects)
• Signal Input ( at the effect stage)

More Information

• http://www.dreadbox-fx.com/abyss/

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