First hour with the Tiny
Okay guys, just had my first hour with the Tiny. Short first impressions.
The filter is PORN. It's awesome. It' fat and solid. Driven with a single signal, the filter input will start to overdrive around 7 or so, and the overdriven sound is great. Turn up the reso knob all the way to 10 and go to heaven.
Bottom end stays with reso turned up. This is my first encounter with a serious SEM based filter (ignoring the one in the Andro), and I have a fine set of other filters here to compare.
My old eyes (just turned 50, ughh) handle the patch wires and labels just fine. I need some more light than usual in the dimly lit studio, but that's it.
Patching the Tiny is fun! No arm stretching as on the big modular. Everything is under your eyes. Love to 'clear' a patch by pulling out all the wires in one go with a single light pull, and start again.
Tons of patch points, and many functions come with two or four input or outputs. For example, the VCA4 input has 4 patch points. OSC saw out has 4 patch points. Most have at least 2 patch points. So there's hardly any need for the mults. Cool.
The OSCs and SUBs sound great. Need more time with those.
Built in FX is super, super cool. Just like I expected, the digital FX unit is made available as a module with an input (4 patch points) and two outputs (two patch points each). Do with it whatever you like. I already used the second FX output as an FM source for one of the OSCs. That's up to 1 sec delayed FM, get it?
The classical approach however would be to make the main sound available on MIX1 input and the FX output on MIX2 input and balance at will with the MIX input pots.
Did I say I love the filter?
- Robert