10 Minutes with HUM 2

Nystrom Instruments are back with a follow up to their CRUM HUM and CRUM DRUM ... this time with HUM 2; a sensory multi-timbral synthesizer with 3 voices. The time stamps show 0:00 Light Sensor 2:06 Tilt Sensor 5:00 Distance Sensor 6:32 Slow Pulse, all of which sound great! It'll be retailing from 540 EUR (Ex. VAT), with a target shipping date of early November. Get a bit of an overview below, and the full specs in the PDF manual. 

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The HUM 2 is a Sensory, multi-timbral synthesizer designed for expressive performance and sonic exploration. The synth provides three independent voices that allow you to create complex textures and control three separate sequences simultaneously.

Multitimbral Architecture: Three voices with the ability to assign independent synthesis engines, melodies and parameters to each voice. Each voice is controlled with touchpads for expressive control.

Expressive Sensor Integration: the synth has six built-in sensors: Distance, Light, Tilt X/Y and Touch 1/2, mappable to any knob for interactive modulation.

Synthesis Engines: Features a wide range of synthesis modes, including Subtractive synthesis, FM, Wavetables, Organ, Karplus Strong, Formant and experimental engines.

Sequencing: Create generative patterns or fixed loops with three independent 64-step sequencers. Generated notes are quantized to one of the 17 scale options.

FX & Modulation: Features 4 LFOs mappable to any knob. Independent sends to the built in Delay, Reverb and Overdrive.

Connectivity: Features 3 CV outputs, 2 CV inputs. Sync In/Out, MIDI in/out. Headphone out, L/R line out and MIDI + Audio over USB

Presets: 500 slots for user saved patches. Stores all sequencing-, synthesis-, sensor- and modulation data

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