Polyend Medusa - Review & Audio Demo
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2019
- I asked polyend if I could borrow the Medusa for a while to explore it and make an audio demo! Here's my impressions, only to be taken as one persons perspective, it's not an exhaustive review by any means. I hope you get a sense of what it's about and what kind of things you can do with it.
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Excellent vid as always Sami 👌
Top quality review and demo. It's weird, so many demos just don't sell it well at all - even the offical polyend ones. But this and a few others really make it shine. Good work.
Good review and amazing outro track !!
Great review! It’s sound like the Pro2 at times
Wowwww that sequence at the end. Fire!
That's multiple tracks, overlaid, not live, fyi.
@@johncaccioppo1142That's obvious. It's still great.
Thanks for this! 😀 👊
Actually could take the medal for "on a whim" and second synth purchase in the last decade. Found it intuitive on sight explore interaction between ms-20, medusa ,digitact.
nicely done - thank you. :)
Very nice!
A very nice video thanks. 8:23 Very nice machine. Quite impressive....
Thanks
Thumbs up! :)
Indiana USA.
Where did you buy your descktop stand? Thx for your video.
Beautiful demo! Are you able to play these different layers/sounds/patterns simultaneously or did you record it on different tracks in the DAW?
This was multi-tracked into the DAW
Technical question you may know the answer to: The sine waves on the Medusa(both digital and analog sides) seems to sound very different than sine waves on most other synths. On all of my other synths (mostly Korg and Roland), the sine waves have a consistent mellow sine wave sound with a completely open filter. On the Medusa, the filter needs to be closed to about a 35 setting (11o'clock position) to achieve this. When the filter is open beyond that, it almost seems as if harmonics are being added giving it a more textured quality and less like a classic sine sound. I was wondering if this was an intentional design of the oscillator? Also, even with the attack is set to 0 on the envelope, that classic sine wave "pop" sound is not present. Is this sound characteristic intentional in the sine oscillators or in the way the envelope is designed? Thanks for any info .
The lack of pop is interesting, not sure what that could be, maybe the envelope has a minimum attack designed to prevent that pop. As for the sine shape, I'd hook it up to an oscilloscope, you can get then in VST these days like bluecat, or there's probably some free ones. My guess is it's not a pure sine wave if it behaves the way you describe. Maybe there's some subtle distortion just inherent in the design, which wouldn't surprise me from dead box, they make characterful synths.
@@AiynZahevSounds Thanks for the reply :)
I'm really digging mine. Only thing I really dislike so far, and hopefully can be addressed in a firmware update, is the fact that the sliders for the envelopes do not catch up. That means when you do env 1, then change to 2 and touch the sliders, that parameter will jump, instead of catching up (like what happens with cutoff or pitch). Quite a pity and very disruptive for live performance
Have you sent this issue to Polyend or Dreadbox and if so what did they say?
@@444levels9 I did talk to them. It's not an issue with mine, it is like this in every unit. For now, nothing can be done. Maybe firmware in the future?
@@azulcobalto well I would definitely recommend talking to polyend, when the medusa was first released they were very resistant to any critical info about it but I think after they realized that people wanted to love this instrument they totally changed their attitude, became more open and transparent and really want to make improvements..... now is definitely the time to send them a message about it and have them take a look.
Azul Cobalto ah that does suck. Is there a way to fix this in the menus?
Sounds great! That demo at the end - is it a performance wihh single Medusa? I frankly have no idea how much voices it can do at once?
It's multi-tracked. Medusa can technically do 6 voices at once, but it's not multi-part, like it can't do several parts alone, just one at a time.
Hey Sami, what is the name of the stand you had the synths sitting on?
Ultimate Stands MDS, I made a video on it actually.
Looks great
Do you have info on the stand you’re using?
Info? Why, I have a whole video for you: ua-cam.com/video/zbyj2y42mK8/v-deo.html
They are made by Ultimate Stands
Very nice sounds! Any chances on releasing a preset bank for Medusa?
I'd be into that as well!
Did you ever release a preset bank? Some lovely sounds in this great video!
RGB on the grid would make using the different modes easier to understand
True
@SamiRabia Sami, is the Erebus sound comparable with Medusa or is it different?
I would say there's a similar DNA yeah, but keep in mind medusa has digital oscs as well.
Dope after all the bad reviews on it I feel it was just haters. This thing is gorg
I seem to remember some bad reviews, but I don't remember what the issues were. Can you tell me?
@@AiynZahevSounds Initially it was more of the viewers comments (reviewers are reluctant to give independent producers a bad ride). Some of the negative comments were along the lines of:
Velocity unavailability
Voice bleed on the analog oscs across square and saw
Lack of effects in conjunction with lack of stereo output
Harsh sounding wavetables
Lack of sync on the wavetables - complete tuning stability loss
Lack of LEDs providing feedback.
Not enough faders for the multitude of envelopes (seriousy!!)
Absence of 6 separate sequence lanes for each osc ( a bit greedy imho)
I have followed the steady progression of improvements and most of the principle concerns have been addressed so I have just ordered one (they are discounting heavily @ Thomann - got it for €739 which is a very, very fair price).
@@fincorrigan7139 Another issue I just learned about was that the firmware upgrade to 2.0 eliminated the ability to either program chord on the sequencer or play chords along with the sequencer... I'm a bit unclear on the complaint.
After you've had yours for a few months, what do you think? Have you upgraded to 3.0 yet?
@@johncaccioppo1142 I sent it back. Wasn't happy with it at all. Just felt cold to me especially the updated wavetables on 2.0. I think you either love it or hate it. I tried but it wasn't for me.
@@fincorrigan7139 Interesting. I almost did the same thing several times, but I can't. It's one of those relationships where I feel like her abuse is justifying my existence, I guess... and she IS beautiful...
Honestly though, I just haven't given it enough effort to give up yet. I'll try the new update, try to integrate with my NDLR and see what happens. I'm pretty stoked about the 3.0 update, too...