New Modal Electronics SKULPT Synth Details Announced

Modal today announced the details of its new 4-voice poly SKULPT - its a portable 4-voice DSP synth based on the CRAFT Synth, but with more of everything and a great deal more synthesis features.

We had a visit from Modal, who came by with a pre-production prototype,  we will have a video up  next week.

Modal SKULPT will be available to order on Kickstarter, starting Friday 13th July 2018.

For more details:

www.modalelectronics.com/skulpt

Pricing to be confirmed shortly mexpected to be less than US$300.

Features are as follows

• Four virtual analogue discrete voices of polyphony with multiple keyboard modes
• Eight oscillators per voice for a total of 32 oscillators (4 x 8)
• Eight banks of sixteen patches (128 in total) patch storage and recall
• Smooth morphing waveforms for each oscillator
• FM (frequency modulation)
• Ring Modulator
• PWM
• Eight (8) modulation slots with eight sources and thirty seven destinations
• Three (3) EG’s (envelopes) for Filter, Amp and Mod
• Two LFO’s -audio rate and MIDI syncable, one global, one per voice / polyphonic
• 2 pole resonant morphable modelled State Variable Filter (VCF) controllable from low pass, through band pass, to high pass
• Delay section fully MIDI syncable
• Waveshaping Distortion
• Sequencer with real time polyphonic note input, storing 128 notes and four rows of parameter automation, 64 sequences can be stored onboard
• Feature rich Arpeggiator with selectable division, direction, swing and octave range 16 key front keypad for note input and controls
• 13 front panel encoders with shift mode for further access to functions
• Front panel transmits MIDI CC’s enabling it to control external software andhardware
• MIDI IN and OUT with soft THRU on 5 pin din sockets as well as Class Compliant MIDI over USB
• Analogue SYNC IN and OUT on 3.5mm sockets
• Dedicated headphone port
• Master output on 3.5mm socket
• Powered either by USB or 6 x AA batteries for extended playing time