Analog synth - MFB Synth II. monophonic synthesizer
Selling my MFB-Synth II, this is a great monophonic analog synthesizer made in Germany by Manfred Fricke. Sad to see it go but I haven't properly used it for a couple of years and someone else deserves the chance to make weird & wonderful noises with it. It's a monosynth with 3 VCOs, 2 envelope generators and a really nice filter. Has presets, sequencer and MIDI capability. Also has an odd wee button keyboard (that doubles as a preset selector) if you want to try out ideas on the go. All in it's a great wee synth that is very portable. Here's some blurb I nicked off a website: The MFB 'Synth II' is a monophonic synthesizer module. It uses analogue circuits which are voltage controlled for oscillators, filters and amplification. The synthesizer is controlled by MIDI, CV/Gate or the integrated step sequencer which can hold up to 25 sequences with 32 steps each. The VCO sections contain three individual oscillators that are scaled to the volt/octave standard. The selectable waveforms are sawtooth, square and triangle. VCO2 offers an additional impulse wave and pulse width control for the square wave. The octave can be set between 4', 8' and 16' or 32'. An additional detune amount of plus/minus one octave can be set for VCO2 and VCO3. The VCOs can either be modulated by an LFO or VCO3. VCO1 can be set to 'sync' and two digital ring modulations are available as VCO1+2 and VCO2+3. The mixer allows level control of all oscillators plus noise and the level of the external audio input. The lowpass filter is a resonant 24 dB/octave design. Emphasis (resonance) can be set up to self-oscillation. The cutoff frequency can be automodulated by an LFO or by a VCO. 'Key' controls the influence of the keyboard pitch on the cutoff parameter (Keyboard scaling). Both VCF and VCA have their proprietary envelope generators with 'Attack', 'Decay', 'Sustain' and 'Release' parameters. The VCA can also be modulated by an LFO for characteristic tremolo effects. The waveforms offered are sawtooth, rectangle, triangle and random. These can be set to 'One Shot' mode to be used as simple envelopes. The 'Synth II' has 50 preset- and 49 memory locations. The synthesizer will respond to incoming velocity data (MIDI). The velocity information can be used to control either VCF cutoff or VCA level. Pitch- and Modulation wheel are both recognized. The step sequencer sends and receives MIDI clock and responds to Start and Stop MIDI commands. - 3 analogue VCOs (sawtooth, square, triangle waveforms). - 2 envelope generators (ADSR). - analogue 24 dB lowpass filter with resonance (VCF). - 2 LFOs (sawtooth, square, triangle, random waveforms). - 50 preset- and 49 user memories. - integrated step sequencer. Ad ID: Delivery Service Consumer Credit