Sonicware Seeks To Reinvent Synthesizer With ELZ_1

Rounik Sethi on Jan 18, 2018 in News | 1 comments

The new hardware synthesizer from Sonicware offers six different sound engines from granular to FM, 8-bit morphing wave to being able to edit audio waveforms. It looks impressive too.

If synths were judged on aesthetics alone Sonicware ELZ_1 would be a hit already. Like a cross between an OP-1 and a KMI controller, the ELZ_1 proposes to offer a wide array of synthesis and sound creation possibilities. It's still in development and a unit (or two) will be at NAMM available to demo. 

Here's what Sonicware have told us about the ELZ_1:

The ELZ_1 synthesizer engines, which were all developed from the ground up, include the FM SYNTH, the 8BIT WAVE MEMORY SYNTH that allows editing and morphing, the DNA Explorer that can work with waveforms from captured audio, and the SiGRINDER granular synthesizer.

Here's a couple of quick videos of the ELZ_1 by the developer shot on a smartphone and without a direct audio line feed:

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JohnDoe
Seems odd that a device like that doesn't have MIDI I/O. After all, it DOES look like a Keith McMillen controller Other than the MIDI thing, I really like the idea of multiple creative synth engines and FX in a compact synth.
Jan 18, 2018

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