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I'm using noise in some of them, from memory I think the first patch is just mask Modulation though

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@@pedrogomis It's a great synth!

They both look great to me. Interesting you pick up on the phasing with the Mask1 - this is because the oscillators seem to have an inherent pitch instability in them, which means every 2 Osc patch inevitably has a kind of "analogue" phasing built-in. I have requested an update where you would have the option for the oscillators to play absolutely true with no pitch variation. Interestingly the oscillators in the "truly analogue" Prologue (once they have warmed up) are more stable in terms of pitch. The Mask1 does sound cleaner and more hi fi than the Prologue to me.

@jensschettler1732 yeah, maybe it's unusual for analogue / VA synths but I guess there are probably quite a few digital synths which can generate these kind of waves

Lol, thank you. I need to get back in touch with the Lyra 8. Have also been thinking about the Pulsar...

@@jbowmanmusic all my friends who bought pulsar are extremely happy about it, I’m not biggest fan of this cables but the sounds and freedom of this system is amazing

@@JazzPaladin Thanks for listening!

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yes I've been spending hours with the Mask1 everyday for the past couple of weeks and it is amazing how much there is in here! Thanks for listening.

@@HarmonicSonics. Thanks!

@@3SpeedBananaSeatMedia Thanks for swinging by

Thanks! It's all custom sounds. It's not quite as easy to get around as the Mask1, but by starting from the performance level and then making new patches and new voices for each part it was actually reasonably quick to program.

yes I agree Osc sync would be another great addition to the tonal possibilities of the Mask1

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thanks! yes when you run out of lfos the looping envelopes come in handy and can add quite a bit of tonal variation.

thank you! I need to reconnect with my Lyra...

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I think it's unique to bit masking . Maybe if the coarse ratio of each operator of an fm synth were far enough apart, for example doing that with sines and a spread of 8 octaves, applying fm to the other oscillator on a 2 osc synth with fm going up, gives bird sounds. Which are somewhat discontinuous. I've not tried it yet with other waveforms yet.

@@HarmonicSonics. Interesting - thanks for the response!

Yes, it can. Pretty cool! There is one pair of stereo outs, at the moment you cannot fix the pan of individual sounds, but hopefully this can be done in a future firmware update so you can output a four part stereo mix in realtime.

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yes it is. its default sound is very clean but I have quite a lot of digital grunge going on here.

very true

Thanks. I find that the "pure FM" sound of one operator modulating another is pretty difficult to replicate by other methods, and I can't get that raw tone out of the Mask1 at the moment. Once the FM patch becomes more complex, as in these examples from Cuckoo, it gets a bit easier to try to approximate the tones.

Thank you, it is a very interesting synth indeed! do you have one?

not yet :D@@jbowmanmusic

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Thank you, high praise indeed!

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Ah, I need to get the Lyra out again ;-) Thanks!

@@jbowmanmusic I look forward to it, as if you recall, it was your videos that made me want a Lyra-8. Soon, I'm going to be doing a bunch of stuff with the Lyra-8, Pulsar 23, and Ornament-8. Should be fun🍌

@@3SpeedBananaSeatMedia thanks, I look forward to your SOMA tracks!

@@jbowmanmusic thank you kind sir

@MuddyPussy listened to your new album on Bandcamp this morning which is excellent - sounds like there's a lot of SOMA on that also.

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Interesting you say that. Do you have the MegaFM? I do find the audio quality of the Mask1 to be superb, but I also find the lo fi quality of the MegaFM to have its own attractions, from the demos I have heard.

I have bought two, one with power problems and another with the lack of one button. Never buy again

@pedrogomis sorry to hear that! I don't think I have ever bought a synth that didn't have any problems, either out of the box, or developed over time. In the interests of full disclosure, when my Mask1 arrived one of the front panel screws was loose - not a big thing, it had come loose in transit and I was able to screw it back in pretty easily. the sound is flawless though.

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Good thinking... and thanks

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