On top of that, it contains an impressive 1400 presets, a bank of wavetables, and a library of sampled instruments to get you started. There’s a bunch of ways to modify it beyond that, too! This synth also features a very handy routing system that is visually simple and appealing, making it easy to shape sounds to your liking. The synth will create “grains”, or tiny segments of the sound, and play several of them all at once, giving it a texture that moves and flows. Granular synthesis can almost seems like delay, but imagine that you take a short sample and want it to be longer. It flexes on other synths by providing users with six oscillator slots that can be wavetables, noise generators, multi-samplers, and most noteworthy, granular synthesis engines. Well, those same folks have made a synth that’s just as intuitive and expressive as their famed keyboards, called Equator2. You may have heard of Roli before, as the creators of a seriously cool piece of gear called the Seaboard – a MIDI controller keyboard that can perform vibrato and pitch bends with responsive touch keys, requiring no second hand on a mod wheel.

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