New Brit Analogue: Energiser

[Martin Fay]

I just found this in the latest "The Mix" magazine, and it's far 
enough from being a straightforward monosynth it may be of some 
interest:

Orgon Systems Energiser

1 VCO Saw/Pulse, with variable pulse width for both Saw and Pulse 
(like an SEM?), external linear FM input, external slide (i.e. 
portamento) switch.

1 VCF with 9 (!) modes, from 6 to 24dB lowpass, 2 bandpass modes, 
notch and highpass. Built with control allowing overdriving. It trcks 
pitch including portamento...is that a 303 feature? I never listened 
to my mates 303 enough to work that out.

1 VCA which can be overdriven, also a direct sinewave feed from the 
VCO which has it's own level - this ought to totally get around the 
problem of high resonance killing the bottom end of a sound?

3 ENV, an AD, an AR and an ADSR.

1 LFO with variable shape like an MS-1/20 by the look of it

Each section has mod switches that can select any of 6 or 7 mod 
signals.

The Mix reckon they should have a demo of it on the cover CD next 
month.


This sounds to me like an interesting machine, with a fair bit of 
interfacing potential though CV inputs on each module. The only thing 
I can't see which would be great on this is an external audio input.



Martin