{"id":15262,"date":"2022-08-22T17:22:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polyend.dev.commonwombat.pl\/?page_id=15262"},"modified":"2024-01-24T15:32:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T14:32:06","slug":"medusa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/polyend.com\/ja\/legacy\/medusa\/","title":{"rendered":"Medusa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Medusa is a longer story. It started back somewhere in 2017 when we meet up with the Dreadbox team for the first time. Long talks, exchange of ideas. Discussions about the status of nowadays music industry. Common passions, and a fast decision. Let’s do something cool together! Shortly after, a surprising visit of Dimitra and Yannis to our headquarters took place<\/span>. Things escalated quickly<\/span> after we had some first sketches of the coming instrument. The Initial desire was to add a sequencer and preset functionalities to the famous Dreadbox monophonic analog voices<\/span>. But as they say, the more you have, the more you want. Thus this liaison grew up to something <\/span>utterly<\/span> unique and <\/span>significantly<\/span> different from what we had all <\/span>originally<\/span> planned<\/span>.<\/p>\n

And so the Medusa Hybrid Synthesizer came to life. Fruit of a collaboration between two completely contrasting companies.\u00a0It emerged from both teams’ unusual approaches to the topic of integrating a classic analog character with a versatile digital domain into an all-in-one polyphonic instrument<\/span>. And merging it with an exclusive musical Grid controller. That would give its users access to expressive performance and convenient sequencing options.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\n\n

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Talking about the Grid, a matrix of pressure-sensitive pads. One of the things that made Medusa so special. It allowed to turn it into a custom controller. But also to store more than a hundred parameter automation per pad. This gave access to programming own kits of different sounds per pad in a single patch. You were able to manually<\/span> trigger these or easily<\/span> create complex-sounding sequences.<\/p>\n

Medusa’s synth engine was made<\/span> to be versatile. And capable of producing a good range of analog and digital tones. The synth could truly<\/span> impress as a lead synthesizer. But it was also ready to deliver pads, sound effects, dangerous basses, and even percussion. Its digital oscillators stack was offering fully morphable wavetables enhancement on top of a thick three oscillator analog sound<\/span>. All are processed by a famous Dreadbox analog multimode filter. Accumulated by its various voicing modes, it was close to an ideal device in many ways. Both a standalone synth and an excellent controller. Or both at the same time.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\n\n\r\n

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The Medusa was offering copious modulation options. Five separate envelopes and five separate LFOs provided loads of sound design possibilities. Allowing you to go <\/span>really<\/span><\/span> deep with sound design activities.\u00a0Modulation <\/span>was made<\/span><\/span> as straightforward as possible. Either an envelope or LFO <\/span>was aimed<\/span><\/span> at a single destination. <\/span>A shortcut method of allocating the target, by holding a source button and moving one of the panel controls was also available<\/span><\/span>. Once you grasped the concept, you were all set. All your actions were corresponding to the informative OLED displays.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\n\n

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