The latest video from Scott’s Synth Stuff takes a look at the Groove Synthesis 3rd Wave Synthesizer.
The video offers a thorough introduction to the 3rd Wave, starting with unboxing, and moving on to cover its sound engine, analog filters, modulation capabilities, and factory presets.
Topics covered:
0:00 Intro
0:15 Unboxing
0:42 Power Up
0:50 First Impressions
1:35 What Is It?
2:40 Samples
2:58 Filters
3:40 PPG Sounds
5:56 Multitimbrality
6:46 More PPG
7:04 Saturating a Pad
8:14 Analog Filter Manipulation
8:38 Eurogliders!
9:15 Analog Pad and Analog Filter
11:00 Sequencer
12:27 Arpeggiator
13:42 Wave Surfer
14:12 Unison Mode
15:20 Mod Matrix
16:11 Effects
18:56 Modulating Effects
22:30 Powerful Low End
23:54 Oberheim-y?
26:07 It’s Digital?!?
26:27 Filter Compensation
28:02 Hours of Playing!
GS Music has introduced the Bree6 Keyboard, a 6-voice analog synthesizer based on their Bree6 module.
The Bree6 features a fully analog signal path, stereo digital effects, a semi-weighted keyboard with aftertouch, and a knob-per-function interface.
Here’s what they have to say about it:
“The Bree6 Keyboard is built to deliver an intuitive and expressive analog experience, combining a robust architecture with a carefully crafted user interface that invites exploration and creativity. Built upon a six-voice analog architecture, the Bree6 Keyboard delivers a powerful and expressive sound engine, capable of producing a wide range of textures, from solid basses and articulate leads to rich, evolving pads. Its carefully designed signal path, combined with an intuitive interface and a high-quality keyboard with velocity and aftertouch sensitivity, provides a direct and immersive playing experience.
Expanding beyond the desktop version, the Bree6 Keyboard incorporates an advanced arpeggiator and a built-in sequencer, significantly enhancing its creative capabilities. The arpeggiator features multiple layers of operation, allowing for complex rhythmic patterns and evolving sequences, while the sequencer enables users to capture and develop musical ideas directly from the instrument, making the Bree6 Keyboard a complete performance and composition tool.
Every aspect of the instrument has been developed with careful attention to detail, combining a refined aesthetic with a robust and purposeful construction. The Bree6 Keyboard features an all-metal build complemented by natural cedar wood side panels, and is hand-assembled to ensure quality and consistency in every unit.
It incorporates a semi-weighted keybed with velocity and aftertouch sensitivity, along with pitch bend and modulation wheels engineered in-house to provide precise, reliable, and expressive control.
Immediate Control. No Menu Diving.”
Features:
One-knob-per-function philosophy
Semi-weighted keybed with velocity and aftertouch sensitivity
Dedicated inputs for sustain and expression pedals
MIDI, USB, balanced stereo outputs, headphone output, and external control inputs
Analog signal path, with stereo digital effects processor with Delay and Chorus.
Polyphony: 6 voices
Oscillator: Single analog VCO per voice
Filter: 24 dB/oct low-pass ladder filter with resonance
Envelope Generators: 2 × ADSR
LFO: Triangle, ramp up, ramp down, square, sample & hold
