Your favorite WYSIWYG Analog Monosynth and Why?

Love the Implexus! It sounds so amazing, from delicate to face melting. The aesthetic is also stunning, love the steampunk light-up indicators that are both beautiful and functional in terms of WYSIWYG.

How does the Typhon compare? I’d love to try one someday!

…hmmmm…i have obviously no clue what WYSIWYG means / stands for…

aaaaaaargh…all these acronyms…
afaik lol has signed an nda and left the building…never heard of it, ever since…

but that’s all OMT…old mans talk…

but hey, as all elektron devices, u can use them by just scratching their surface to get first fancy results pretty much instantly and can even after years of use still have no clue how deep u could actully dig and go…

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Yep, and that would be super annoying. I think it’s a real design challenge to pick which things to have on the front panel; for example I zero need for a dedicated knob (and button!) for portamento, and yet it is prevalent on so many synths, taking up UI real estate.

Pity it’s such a pain to customize most synths, adding controls to a guitar is as simple as punching holes in a control plate, buying pots, and grabbing a soldering iron.

@reeloy

FWIW, WYSIWYG has been around as an acronym-turned-term since the 70’s. I remember hearing about it during the desktop publishing revolution - which I shouldn’t be old enough to remember but do anyway because I was raised in an Apple household.

It’s also a track off Pitchshifter’s 1998 album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMubrMtjiz0

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…what u see is what u get…!?

oh…one of these once u know u know-too obvious things…my bad.

thanx for the update and this little “history” lesson… :wink:

and therefor… @azzarole is totally right… a4 is defenenitly NO WYSIWYG synth…
and same goes even way more for the o coast…
but moogs mt and prodigy defenitly count…

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And (sort of) the title of a nightmare-inducing 90s children’s TV show:

On topic, I would’ve said Matriarch but it’s debatable for the reasons already… debated lol. I don’t have one but in terms of features SH-101 definitely comes to mind as a kind of platonic ideal. Even then though, can that kind of sequencer really be said to be WYSIWYG? To me a WYSIWYG sequencer is more like a Moog 960 or something.

In terms of pure tone I’d throw the Roland SH-2 out there.

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I had never heard it in the context of synths, I’ve only ever heard of it in the digital realm in terms of the icon set used in software, like a WYSIWYG GUI. Was a very confusing juxtoposition for me because I didn’t realize it stood for something

anyways… hard to not say minimoog for this?

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Wasp is great, a bit more grit than a sh101 but still one of those hard to make it sound bad type synths

The ‘get’ part referred to what came out of a printer - the ‘see’ part was the representation of the page on the screen.

Chat!

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It’s actually a pretty old acronym that became common in relation to word processing when the Mac came out because for the first time you could see the actual fonts, bolding, italics, etc on screen the way it would look when printed. So maybe you’re actually not old enough to get it :wink:

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Ninja’d!

I thought about it but then wondered… isn’t rather a WYDFIWYG synth?
What you don’t feel is what you get? :smiley:

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It seems like 101 is the clear winner so far. With Grandma/Matriarch as runner up?

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I must be alone in my 101 dislike. Not that it was a bad sounding synth, just that it never did it for me. I’d put the MS-20 by far at the top (if I could only have one synth forever it would be that one) and the Grandmother a ways below it.

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Another vote for Matriarch here, most fun hands-on mono out of all the stuff I’ve actually used. It’s certainly useful as a chord synth, but luxurious as a mono, sounds good and the tone can be tweaked to different places.

I’m also a big fan of the 2600 (I have the Behringer version). Even with relatively simple patches, it gets a certain lead sound that goes straight to any Zawinul lover’s heart. With the B2600, patching the post-filter sound through the preamp module for saturation creates the big warm fuzzy place.

I wish I’d bought a real 101 when they were younger and cheaper. Sliders are great and I would to hear that smooth 101 bass firsthand. I wasn’t really aware of that synth back in the day, didn’t discover the classic 101 music (e.g., BOC, Drexciya?) until long after it was new. But since I’ve never played a 101, maybe the S-1 Rolca is actually just as good for my purposes … I’ll never know …

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It’s the 101 sliders and layout that make it fun give it’s playability. S1 doesn’t match this but the boutique isn’t bad

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Yeah, that row of sliders looks so enticing on the 101. Not enough to make me buy any of the current digital or analog slidery 101 clones tho.

Given how impossible it is to be in tune, I’d say more :
What you feel is what you don’t get

I’m surprised that no one has called out the Bass Station II yet.

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Because its not wysiwig.
The 2 envelopes share 1 set of sliders. And a few other things only accesable via shift plus key command.

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Exactly. It’s what I dislike about it (and Peak as well). Other than that, excellent synth.
One good way to think of it is to simply ignore osc 2 and lfo 2.