Formanta Polivoks - no talking - no fx - raw Russian resonance
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- The Polivoks is the most popular vintage Russian synth made in the early 80's by Vladimir Kuzmin and it was among the first synthesizers produced in the USSR. It's purely analog with two voices of polyphony, two oscillators each with triangle, square, saw, two types of pulse waveforms and one noise generator, the levels of which are controlled via the internal mixer. Although the oscillators can become unstable and difficult to tune, the Polivoks is well suited for making screeching sounds and thunderous bass. You can also connect an external audio input for processing through the Polivoks' switchable dual-mode band pass/low pass filter and LFO sections. The LFO, or "Modulator" offers triangle, square, random and noise waveshapes and can be applied to the oscillator level and pitch or the filter cutoff. There are also two ADSR envelopes for contouring the oscillators and filters.
Polivoks had been produced since 1982 by the Formanta electronic factory (one of the biggest at the time); it was sold exclusively in the USSR. Polivoks has its own unique electronic components including a reliable keyboard (49 notes F to E) made with magnetically controlled contacts and DIN sockets for its three outputs and one input. Its synthesis modules consist of independent circuit boards, which is convenient for maintenance and repair. In addition, Polivoks is housed in an original rugged aluminum body of uncommon design with handy controls.
One more thing though, if you come across one of these it helps if you can read Russian. Check out this Panel Layout Translation to English.
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Recently Vladimir Kuzmin and Uli Behringer have announced their collaboration. Find further details here:
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I’m generally a guitarist and an electronics engineer, the other day I accidentally heard his work on UA-cam, and fell in love, by coincidence, a distant friend had one, but didn’t use it because the device required maintenance, which he doesn’t know how to do, couldn’t resist, bought it the day before yesterday, now I’m doing preventive work on it, I think I’ll need to build a MIDI module into it and I’ll use it in my music
В одном из роликов на ютьюбе Владимир Кузьмин, разработчик поливокса, рассказывал как добавить в поливокс миди.
In Soviet Russia, synth oscillates you.
Когда-то имел в своей студии. Мощнейший звучара, дикий и необузданный. Отличное видео, спасибо, понастольгировал!
Thank you for uploading!!! You have restored my faith in UA-cam.
Some great timbres from this thing. Raw and wild. 👌
вещь!, звук советского прогресса и технологий
Happy to own it. It's 100% sweetspots and i love that repeat function. If it would be syncable...
That would indeed be a cool feature.
Behringer just announced theyre making a clone of this with the original creator. I hope they add sync!
@MandalorianSquid I hope they get the quirky filter resonance right.
@@Bernd_Bruening oh yes. If not whats the point!
Such a beautiful melody! What a musical talent you are! Goosebumps here all over the place! How did you come up with these amazing harmonies? I almost cried!
You are a real synth king! Can't wait for your album full of amazing and highly emotional songs...
Thanks a lot, Henrik! You probably mean the sounds, since this synth is only duophonic. Anyway, please search for the “one synth - one song” videos on my channels. There you’ll get some nice melodies and harmonies.
I like my polivoks, but I feel like I'm going to break a knob every time I turn them. Great demo. Thanks for making this.
They are built like a tank. The plastic feels a little bit brittle though. Anyway an outstanding synth! Thanks for watching.
I’m sure you could 3D print the knobs
serious growl!
The Soviet MS-20. Sort of. Very similar sounding at least.
Russian 12 dB VCF is just amazing. Your demo is great, people should listen to 2:48 when you start tweeking the VCF. 🙂
I must have one now! I want the schematic - I want to build the oscillator
Build the filter. It is very unique
Fantastic
Ебать, вот это звук. Странно что синт не перевыпустили, на фоне модной волны на аналог-то..
кому перевыпускать то? Завода уже давно нет.
перевыпустили, компания Эльта
Looks like Behringer is taking a shot at it!
Saw some preproduction models and they look sweet.
ooo, beasty.😎
Ich bin aus der 7c
Стоил тогда "Поливокс" 1100 советских рублей. Для сравнения мотик "Ява 350-638" 1050 руб. Выделило нам родное ПТУ на наш ВИА деньги. Сожгли мы его нахрен на первой же репе. Кто ж знал что через 40 лет это будет ценнейший артефакт.
Because it sounds absolutely amazing.
se non cambi le forme d onda non si capisce niente