Saturday, March 15, 2008
Fenix Modulair
YouTube via FenixModulair. Anyone know if this is a Synton or other? Not sure if he is just calling it Fenix.
videos include:
Missing Knob, sound of Fenix Warming up
Missing Knob, sound of Fenix is warm
Missing Knob, sound of Fenix part1
Missing Knob, sound of Fenix part2
Missing Knob, sound of Fenix part3
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The Fenix is to the left. This looks like some kind of sequencer controlling the Fenix, possibly.
ReplyDeleteThe big box with the rows of knobs and the blinking lights seems to be some sort of sequencer, but it isn't the Fenix. I don't recognize it as part of a Synton modular, but it does have the right color and the banana plugs and jacks.
ReplyDeleteThere is a Fenix in the video, which I presume is generating the sounds. It's the single-box modular with the vertical "modules" and all the banana jacks/plugs on the bottom. It is variously to the left or the right of the sequencer, and you see only half of it. There might even be two Fenix modulars sometimes - one on each side of the sequencer.
That's someone's scratch built sequencer in the middle of all the videos. The Fenix is on the left or on the left and right in the first video. The Fenix was designed by former Synton employees Marc Paping and Bert Vermeulen in 1997 and most were assembled in 1998 and the first part of 1999. The idea was to make a farly portable high quality modular for themselves. The production run was exteded several times and if the quality and unique design wasn't enough to tempt analog synth fans the bargain price due to very low profit margin surely did. I think by the end of production they were exhausted by the amount of work assembling them (even after board assembly was contracted out) so I think that gave them pause for thought on doing something else.
ReplyDeleteOne can pick on certain design features, but then again it performs spectacularly and was never inntended as a commercial product.
It is not a clone of earlier Synton modulars as they used CEM chips. The filters are newly designed but the configuration of a lowpass + 2 band pass filters is available on the Fenix.
I meant to say the Syrinx has a 24db LP and two 12db bandpass filters.
ReplyDeleteThe Fenix has a 30db LP and two 12db multimode filters which though sounding different, were intentionally included to have similar general configuration capabilities.
The Fenix was somewhat inspired by the extremely rare Synton Collage semi modular.
I owned a Fenix for several years. The high points for me were the voltage controllable variable sync, the digital noise module, and the LFOs. The low points were definitely the filters...I was not a fan.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I did keep my Synton SPX-216 vocoder...now THAT is a great sounding unit.
ReplyDeletesynton changed the filter on the fenix after making the initial run with more powerful filters
ReplyDeleteI'd love to have a Fenix, but is something like the Cwejman S1 close enough? Has anyone tried both?
ReplyDeleteThis is what the Synton Fenix looks like:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb99/articles/syntonfenix883.htm
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