Super 6 Synthesizer

[Etienne Levic]

Ijust picked up my JX-10 that I loaned to Alex of Plasma Music to develop an exciting new product. He has developed a new aftertouch sensor strip that simply reinvents the expressiveness of the keyboard. Simply put, I am so happy with this upgrade!!!

A massive thank you to all the early adopters and testers who paid for and entrusted me between March to October 2021, to provide early samples, test them out and feedback their experience so that I could perfect the fitting instructions to help others achieve the best performance possible.

To buy, see Products page for availability, pricing and how to contact me. I offer a personal and fully supported service, so prefer email to establish contact and make sure you have a successful install.

A fabulous OLED display that replaces the old VFD in the Roland JX8P. When used with the Vecoven SuperJX Flash, it enhances the function with a intuitive 2 line display that helps guide you through the new features of the plug and play flash module.

This beautiful enhancement helps extend and breathe new life into this fabulous instrument. Some further improvements have been made to the SuperJX OLED module on the back of the JX8P code base and all displays continue to be developed and improved with easily downloadable updates.

Check out the Super JX Replacement Display, specially designed to fit inside the magnificent Roland MKS70 and JX10 synthesizers. To learn more about its development take a look at the design engineering page.

Plasma Music are also able to offer professional repair and restoration services for many other vintage instruments and equipment. The ideal one stop shop for ensuring your precious vintage gear is looked after and well maintained.

A specially designed OLED display replacement for the MKS70. Using a low width 402 character module, it is a simple fit with prepared wiring that only requires the Display Board to be removed and drilled. A very neat and high precision installation is achieved by use of the original VFD fixing pins.

OLED improves on LCD by having high contrast ensuring a clean display and gives enhanced functionality that the Vecoven software exploits for the VFD update using just a 40 character by 2 line display. Like all other displays, works with original Roland software in single line mode. Availability is shown here.

Fabricio Cantoni has put in a huge number of hours and dedication to create this fabulous looking JX10 all in white. The attention to detail on the new silk screen is stunning. It is running Roland firmware, contains a replacement display whilst being controlled by the iPG800 iPad App.

A song created by Thomas stberg using the JX10 for all sounds with exception of the drums and a small number of effects. The link below takes you to the SuperSynthProjects google drive and plays in Chrome.

Finally, a solution for the nightmare flat cables in the SuperJX. After 30 years these cables are showing signs of the glue drying out and thus when unplugged for maintenance, they often fall apart especially if they have been abused before.

Ever felt daunted at the prospect of removing solder from 120 joints and replacing the switches for new on an MKS70? Here is the most efficient and least damaging way of doing it! MKS70 Replacement Switches

UDO's Super 6 is a Roland-inspired, hybrid twelve-voice polysynth with a fully binaural signal path, perfect for creating everything from classic pads and synth key sounds to rich, swarming stereo textures. Using FPGA-based oscillators, an analog filter section, analog VCA section, and 192kHz, 24-bit effects, the Super 6's voice architecture alone is uncommonly powerful and clean. Combined with an intense and well-considered modulation section, Fatar keybed with velocity and aftertouch, and an integrated arpeggiator and sequencer, the Super 6 feels like we're back in the early 1980s imagining what the future of synthesizers would be like.

Each voice's two oscillators are FPGA-based wavetable designs, each with their own special tricks and sound-making possibilities. Oscillator 1 (called DDS1 on the panel) employs UDO's super-wavetable engine: a sort of hybrid of wavetable and super-saw like techniques for creating absurdly huge stereo swarms. DDS1 is, in fact, a single centroid oscillator and six sister oscillators which may be phase-separated across the stereo field for intense, swirling spatial images. User wavetables are supported via import from a computer, so you can truly make the Super 6 sound like whatever you want. Oscillator 2, also DDS-based, provides easy access to traditional waveshapes along with classic synth sound design techniques like hard sync, suboscillator, PWM, and more.

The VCF and VCA sections are fully analog, allowing for classic manipulations of the truly unique sound source. The filter section provides resonant highpass and lowpass filters, which can be coupled together for more traditional bandpass response. The lowpass filter can self-oscillate and allows for key tracking, opening up the possibility for all sorts of gnarly filter FM and sound generation.

Envelope 1 is an invertible HADSR with option for looping, while the second is a classic ADSR. Each envelope can be sent to control multiple destinations, which, in combination with the LFO section and modulation matrix, can make for remarkably complex and singular sound design opportunities.

All of this combined with a velocity and aftertouch-sensitive keybed, sequencer, arpeggiator, MPE compliance, and an outright solid build quality serves to make the Super 6 one of the most compelling polyphonic synths around.

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I have had a PSR S750 for the past 7 years and was planning on finally buying a new one. But I am extremely confused between the modX and PSR SX900. Can someone please enlighten me what are the major differences between the two?

One thing that I extremely liked about the modx is the super know (coupled with motion sequencer it's simply awesome). Is the same (or something similar) achievable on a SX900?

And vice versa, what are the things that you can do on a SX900 but missing from modx?

I really need accompaniments and chords and Indian tones and styles (I know SX900 has them for sure). I am really confused whether MODX would be a better one.

I have tried neither of them in person since I am trying to avoid going to the stores physically until Corona is gone and hence I will have to rely on you guys, please help ?

The MODX gives granular control over how the sound is constructed. It allows for editing parameters to completely alter the given sounds (Performances, Parts) in order to fit them to your own taste or even come up with completely new sounds.

The PSR-SX900 you are more-or-less familiar with what it does. But it is more suited for designing songs. The arrangement. It has automation for things that a synthesizer does not have when it comes to defining sections of music and queuing them up. The arranger line also has a few more nuances to certain sounds that allow for a different kind of automation of playing certain instruments. Therefore, certain instruments (using super articulation) have additional controls that the synthesizer line does not have. The arranger instruments do not provide deep editing of the sounds.

Also note that although limited in "song design" - the MODX synthesizer does have the ability to play arpeggios and patterns which, although not the same, do serve a similar function as providing "background" automation. Often people ask if MODX does arranger-style automation and the answer is often - no, but maybe try ... The synthesizer will place more burden on you to musically time when/how transitions happen. And the system is ... well, different. One cannot really replace the other.

Actually, there kind of is... The Korg PA700/PA1000 (arranger competitors to the PSR SX700/SX900) do have a lot of those deeper synth editing functionalities. But there are always trade-offs, the Korgs and Yamahas can each do some things the others don't.

We now know that the new polyphonic analog Synthesizer from Moog will be called Muse. An official release is, however, still pending. Unlike before, Moog is heavily teasing the synth on social media again and again with tiny photos.

UPDATE: The big topic in February was the news synth from Moog. According to rumors, it is called Moog Mirror and is supposed to be an analog poly Synthesizer. Since these planned leaks, things have been quiet. But today, there is movement again.

Sound designer and YouTuber Jexus shared this picture on its Facebook page. It was cropped from the 2024 Super Bowl show broadcast. Since someone contacted me over Facebook, what the hell does the Moog Mirror have to do with the Super Bowl 2024?

According to YouTuber star and influencer Andrew Huang, Moog teased a new Synthesizer at the 2024 Super Bowl event. One of the musicians is probably a beta tester and used the synth of the Usher halftime spectacle show.

If you look back at the last few Moog years, they were heavily influenced by monophonic or paraphonic synthesizers. The Moog One is the only modern Moog with polyphony. So it would make sense if Moog brought an affordable, modern polyphonic Synthesizer to the market.

One that is not overloaded with features but is hands-on and fun to work with. With the power of inMusic, and new production options in Asia, that would be possible. The dimensions in the photo so far would fit a polyphonic synth. It could be a downsized Moog One for the wider public. The buttons are reminiscent of it.

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