R2 Revolution Synthesizer

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Future Retro Starts Shipping Innovative R2 Revolution Synthesizer

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We have a particular penchant for synthesizers and sequencers having spent the best part of our youth toying with a Roland synthesizer hooked up to an Amiga (yes, our youth was that long ago) so, along side posts concerning Tonium’s Pacemaker we simply couldn’t help but post about Future Retro’s new R2 Revolution Synthesizer which has now begun shipping.

Sporting an aluminium chassis and a novel cyclic interface, the R2 Revolution Synthesizer boasts true analogue monophonic synthesis as well as analogue and digital DSP effects and, notably, sports a remix feature that boasts and astounding 256 variations for each pattern/song with more than 65,000 patterns on offer – this is a seriously impressive piece of kit (as you can see from the R2 Revolution’s specifications listed below).

R2 Revolution Specifications:

ANALOG CONTROLS

• OSCILLATOR WAVEFORM SELECT: Sawtooth, Square wave
• TUNE CONTROL: +/- 1 semitone
• FILTER: 3 pole, 18db lowpass resonant filter
• CUTOFF: Filter frequency
• RESONANCE: Amount control
• CV MOD: Amount of filter modulation
• ENVELOPE: Amount control for modulating filter
• ENV DECAY: Envelope decay time for filter
• ACCENT: Amount of signal to modulate the filter and amplifier
• ACC DECAY: Accent decay time
• VOLUME: Master/headphone output level control
• OVERDRIVE SWITCH: Off/on

DSP EFFECTS

16 preset 24 bit stereo effects including:

• Chorus/room 1
• Chorus/room 2
• Delay 1
• Delay 2
• Chorus
• Flange
• Plate 1
• Plate 2
• Plate 3
• Room 1
• Room 2
• Room 3
• Hall 1
• Hall 2
• Rotary Speaker
• Low Pass Muffler

SEQUENCER

• NUMBER OF PATTERNS: 256 patterns (16 banks x 16 patterns each)
• RECORDED PATTERN CONTENT: note duration, pitch, accent, glide, loop point, time signature, swing amount
• NUMBER OF STEPS PER PATTERN: 3/4 time=12 steps max, 4/4 time=16 steps max
• NOTE PITCH RANGE: C1 to D#6
• LOOP POINT: 1 to 16 notes per pattern to loop
• PATTERN TRANSPOSE: from -36 to +36 notes
• OTHER PATTERN FEATURES: pattern remixing, play patterns forwards or backwards, copy and paste patterns, pattern shifting, permanent pattern transposing, multiple pattern cueing (for chaining patterns together live), LED chase, realtime editing of pattern information while the sequencer is running or stopped, sequencer automatically saves all editing.
• REMIX: 256 variations for each pattern and song
• NUMBER OF STEPS PER SONG: up to 3580 measures each
• RECORDED SONG CONTENT: tempo, bank/pattern for each step, pattern transpose for each step, song loop point
• SONG PATTERN TRANSPOSE: from -36 to +36 notes steps for each song step
• TEMPO RANGE: from 20 to 250 beats per minute
• MIDI FUNCTIONS: on/off, channel selectable from 1 to 16, program change messages for selecting patterns remotely
• MIDI SYNC: internal or external
• MIDI SYSEX: for dumping patterns and songs
• NOTE DATA: transmitted and received
• MIDI TO CV/GATE CONVERTER
• MIDI TO DIN SYNC OUT CONVERSION

INTERFACING (MIDI):

• IN
• THRU
• OUT

1/4″ JACKS

• V/OCT CV OUT
• +12v GATE OUT
• CV IN (for modulating the filter cutoff frequency)
• AUDIO IN
• STEREO HEADPHONE OUTPUT
• STEREO MASTER OUTPUT

Apologies for merely copying and pasting the specifications here to quite the degree we have but we were acutely aware that we simply could not convey the R2 Revolution’s expansive capabilities otherwise.

Future Retro’s R2 Revolution Synthesizer retails for around $750.

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