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Deckard's Dream

Black Corporation Deckard's Dream
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Description

16 oscillator (CEM3340), 8 voice polyphonic synthesizer inspired by the Yamaha CS-80. It has some characteristics of the CS-80, but is obviously not a clone since the electronic circuits are different. The synthesizer is available both as a finished product and DIY project.
There's going to be a 1u high expander as well.

Specifications
8-voice polyphonic analogue synthesizer
Fully analogue signal path
2 synthesis layers per voice
256 presets

Layer architecture
VCO with square, saw and sine waveforms
PWM with sine-wave LFO
Manual PW (50-90%)
12dB HP and LP discrete filters with separate resonance controls
ADSR filter envelope with adjustable initial and attack levels
ADSR VCA envelope
Velocity and aftertouch controls for filter brilliance and volume levels

Master controls
Global coarse/fine tune
VCO2 detune
LFO with sine, saw, ramp, square and stepped random waveforms
LFO destinations: VCO, VCF, VCA
Crossfade between layers 1 and 2
Global filter brilliance and resonance control for additional resonance
Polyphonic aftertouch destinations: LFO speed, LFO to VCO amount, LFO to VCF amount, filter brilliance, volume level
Keyboard tracking adjustment for VCF and VCA

MIDI/MPE with polyphonic aftertouch
Polyphonic pitchbend
Unison
MIDI over USB
128 factory and 128 user presets
Alternate scales and tunings
Software editor by Spektro Audio

128×64 OLED display

DC input jack (9-24V)
External modulation input jack (1/4″)
Expander jack (DIN5)
USB jack (type B, device/host)
MIDI IN jack (DIN5)
MIDI THRU jack (DIN5)
AUDIO OUT LOW jack (1/4″)
AUDIO OUT HIGH jack (1/4″)

19″ 4U rack-mount
Width:
Height:
Depth:
Weight: ~ 5.4 kg (11.9 lbs) incl external PSU brick.

Specifications expander:
1u high rack format. 16 assignable CV inputs, analogue ring-modulator and chorus, missing Sustain I/II controls. may be used as a standalone effects box and a cv-2-midi convertor.

Discussions

Gear thread - Pics of your setups

...to the HW FX in any configuration, etc. It's so liberating! The 32R stagebox is on the back rack, with a Deckard's Dream + Expander, a KeyStep, mio MIDI interface and the Perkons drum machine. Another thing I wanted to go all in was cable management. I have done SO MANY studios and never quite achieved...

5U or less rackmountable analog or hybrid desktop synths with patch storage

Huh, I thought Deckard's Dream was a deeper rack unit. I must have been thinking of either the original DIY kits or the mk1 version? It looks like all of the current Black Corporation synths have the same form factor: 4U (with no additional rack space taken up by cabling) seems like the sweet spot. That's...

5U or less rackmountable analog or hybrid desktop synths with patch storage

Yep, their original MKI units were deeper rack units. All of the MK2 versions have the same physical form factor, I believe that they were able to shrink the depth by using double-sided voice cards. I prefer my desktop units at an angle too, but easy enough to put them in a Synth-Rise or other desktop...

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