The Shruthi is a hybrid digital/analog monosynth. Its hardware design is deceptively simple, but the sonic range is wide: sometimes grungily digital like a PPG-Wave, fat and funky like a SH-101, videogame-y like a Commodore 64, weird and warm like an ESQ-1 ; but more often than not, truly original.
Contrary to the hardware you can purchase at the music shop next door, a Shruthi isn’t designed to be industrially manufactured. Indeed, its assembly doesn’t require any specialized equipment, besides a screwdriver, cutters, a soldering iron and two hands.
...the space for overlap! I have my eye on a Nord Drum 3 for drum synthesis/modelling and almost have a Shruthi XT build finished. Both of those are unbalanced and don't have FX so will go to the XR12 for FX during writing and then through more AML Neve preamps during tracking. As I mix...
...if you were handy with a soldering iron or have one of many "approved builders" assemble the synth for you. The Shruthi monosynth is a hybrid synth with various digital waveform types (including standard saw, square, triangle, and pulse with PWM) and an analog filter. I think Mutable Instruments created a total of six analog...