EDP WASP Electronic Dream Plant Synthesizer

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"TECH BITS and GOOD BITS:- This is a Digital/Analogue, monophonic synth with 1 printed circuit board housing among many other things 2 x DCO oscillators with variable waveforms from ramp to pulse and a lovely square for drum n bass subby sounds! It has an awesome FILTER section which is an analogue, Voltage Controlled Filter. It is very powerful (listen to my track) and usefully has Lowpass, Hipass and Bandpass options, all with Q. There are controls for white noise, an envelope generator with attack, decay and sustain/repeat, a control envelope etc. Please do some research to understand the full extent of its functionality. In describing its sound, some people have described it as being even more impressive than a MiniMoog, however all I can say is that it sounds fantastic, producing huge, thick, warm, aggressive, powerful electronic noises and sounds when put through an amp, a bit of delay and reverb (on my track I have put the WASP through some reverb to create a nice room sound - as you can hear, the WASP records beautifully from its line out.

THE TECHNICAL ISSUES/BAD BITS:- The major issue is that my WASP suffers from 'DRONING WASP' syndrome, which means that on power up, the sound of the WASP is generated gradually (in terms of volume) without the use of the keyboard. The keyboard does not work. It never has during my ownership. I believe this may be down to a past humidity issue, though it could be anything and I am no expert. So, I have always used it to create continuous or 'oscillating' sounds. Therefore I can't say whether the Envelope Generator section works, or the glide, which would define the note onset, decay and sustain characteristics of a timbre..."