therefore £169 in 18+ months from release … now if y’all could get them ordered now so we can hit the sales lull a bit sooner (and iron out any h/w blips inside too)
this looks and sounds great and has a good layout, i don’t mind the ‘volca’ pots on those controls though it leaves the panel looking sparse
i dig the lighter wood sides they use on some recent gear, might see if they do spare parts … or make some
From the promo vid one thing I found slightly strange was that it looked like he had the two voices hard panned L and R but I couldn’t hear a great deal of stereo movement. Dunno but I always wanted an Analogue Solutions Impulse Command because of that mad stereo field movement. Would that be possible with this synth?
what, no mini sequencer? lame.
I appreciate Behringer making stuff like this available because after the first few I bought I realized I’m not a synth guy. It’s invaluable, saving me thousands of dollars on finding what isn’t for me, just like VCV rack did for modular.
But I dream of them going after vintage and modern grooveboxes. I think they could do something amazing if they came to the market with an EMX running Muteable “Brains” or something like that. I will buy the Hirotribe in support if it is ever released
So now that the 2-XM is ready to be moved on to its own thread, what’s left on the GIP list, for the larger Eurorack / Semi-modular units ?
Top of that list would be the Enigma, which has got to be getting close, given its state ( post ) from almost a year back.
Also in a similar category would be the JT-2, and then the Polivoks ( which seems to have mostly dissappeared ), and if you want to include a drum sound module, the SDS-3.
Am i missing anything else in this category ?
Sure there is lots of other interesting GIP still happening, but other than version twos of stuff already out ( and they have already done some of that ) i think that’s what is left in this category – that we currently know about.
It looks like the mixer on the synth has pan controls, but only manual not voltage controlled. So you would need to move the knobs yourself to get stereo field movement.
based on the gearspace thread - the 2-xm was announced 3rd march 2022,… so it was about 3 years since initial spec and images…and i guess theyd been working on it for a while before that…
it gives a good idea of how ‘easy’ it is to ‘clone a synth’ … 3+ yrs doesnt sound easy to me.
Update - actually it was teased oct 2020 with circuit board images. So it was even longer.
I wonder how difficult that would be to mod?
Soft-pan the voices and modulate the vca’s of each with anything but the exact same signal?
2-XM finally! Can’t wait, that’s a gorgeous sounding synth!
Now I guess they should make a 4-XM in keyboard form, that’ll be sweet!
Noobs question, is there any polysynth which use the same filter and oscillator ?
I have always loved the sound of this synth but I don’t think a new monosynth or dual voice synth would be well receive in my collection.
The TEO 5 has discrete Oberheim oscillators (afaik) albeit in “enhanced” form and it has a state variable SEM filter. No idea how it compares to the SEM derived XM tho
OB6 I think.
I make do with plaits in chord mode and a Doepfer 121s.
Bigger beast in size terms but there’s always the UBXa too
Yeah the UBXa sound good, but it does not have this dedicated variable state filter. I mean this SEM filter by itself with the variable state pot is a really big plus for me.
From Wikipedia en
The OB-X was the first Oberheimsynthesizer based on a single printed circuit board called a “voice card” (still using mostly discrete components) rather than the earlier SEM (Synthesizer Expander Module) used in Oberheim semi-modular systems, which had required multiple modules to achieve polyphony. The OB-X’s memory held 32 user-programmable presets. The synthesizer’s built-in Z-80 microprocessor also automated the tuning process.
So OBx OBxa both does not seem to use the same kind of filter. Or it’s my understanding from photo and description
Behringers Clouds clone.
So what’s the “To Be Announced” mentioned at the end of the video ?
