Product Overview
Just as the precise positions and shapes of the formants in a human voice allow you to identify the identity of the speaker as well as the vowel sound spoken, formants make the timbres of acoustic instruments consistent and recognisable from one instrument to the next. It therefore follows that recreating formants is a big step forward for synthesising many types of sounds.
Normally, formant synthesis requires at least three formant filters per sound (see appendix 6) with appropriate CVs for each. The RS-360 provides all of this in a single module 24HP module. However, the RS-360 is more than just a formant filter. All three filters produce the four common filter characteristics: low-pass, high-pass, notch and band-pass, with summed outputs that offer the low-pass outputs of all three filters, the high-pass outputs of all three, and so on. You can also use the RS-360 as an effects unit. If you route different outputs (say, band-pass and notch) to two panned channels, you can produces stereo effects reminiscent of the flangers and phasers used in early multi-keyboards. Furthermore, you can use the three self-oscillating filters as multiple audio signal sources, or create unusual waveforms from the three ‘partials’.
