Adamsynths Warthog: The First Modular Synthesizer With Total Recall and DAW Integration?
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Imagine being able to recall every potentiometer setting, switch position, even cable patch routes. Adamsynths Warthog claims to be able to do this plus integrate with your DAW.
Adamsynths Warthog
There’s no denying that modular is fun to play and experiment with. For many, the lack of presets is part and parcel of the experience. Like life, it’s transient and impermanent. For others, though, the lack of recall is a bug, not a feature. One such person is Adam Minski, the founder of Adamsynths.
“When I thought about this, the first thing that came to me was what a great opportunity it could be to save all the settings with its potentiometers, switches, cables everything included,” he said. “All in all, I want my modular to remember everything for the future, what I tweaked out and connected on it today. Well, it was along this philosophy that the design and construction of the Warthog began.”
Adamsynths Warthog: Total Recall
Adamsynths Warthog is a new modular synthesizer system with total recall. And by total, the company means just that. “I mean for real it can save all the positions of the potentiometers, the switches and modes, the snapshots, the hidden parameters and sure thing all the patch cables, like which was plugged where,” said Adam.
This logically extends to presets as well. The Warthog will ship with factory presets and, in the future, users will be able to share their self-made presets with each other.
“Just imagine you take home a modular synthesizer and you can use a whole wide palette of patches right away. Moreover, you can modify or reshape, repatch all of them,” Adam said.
The Warthog is also capable of snapshots, variations of patches that you can morph between using the two mod wheels… excuse me, Mood Wheels. These can also act like macros and control multiple parameters at the same time.
Adamsynths Warthog: Central Unit
Adamsynths Warthog manages recall and patches with its system controller, the Central Unit control module. Although the synth’s signal path is analog, it features deep digital control. The Central Unit performs all of the recall tasks, MIDI, and parameters across the whole system. “In short, the Central Unit is aware of everything that happens in the instrument and takes care of supervising and controlling it all,” says Adam.
Adamsynths Warthog: What’s Included
Warthog will ship with a selection of standard modules, including three oscillators, two multimode VCF/VCA units, one Matrix 428, a modulation tools module, two Dual VC Env, the Mood Wheels unit, the Central Unit, a passive divider, audio mixer, case and PSU. This is just a recommendation, though, and Adamsynths stresses that it can alter this as you need.
Additionally, because the Central Unit is software-based, it can be easily rewritten to accommodate new modules as they arrive. This can even be done at the request of a user – custom modules, perhaps?
Adamsynths also promises that the first 50 customers who purchase a Warthog will get lifetime free software upgrade access. This is independent of any firmware updates, which will always be free to all users.
Adamsynths Warthog: DAW Integration
Along with compatibility with other modular systems (Warthog uses the V/OCT standard, knows PPQN sync, and has TTL lead Gate, Trig and Sync signals), Adamsynths has also made it to interface with your DAW. All parameters are controllable in real-time via USB or MIDI without using additional patch cables or CV in/out jacks.
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One response to “Adamsynths Warthog: The First Modular Synthesizer With Total Recall and DAW Integration?”
It’s not the first modular with total recall. There are lots of software modulars that can save patches. Before software there was the Nord Modular and similar like the Kyma system. In the 80’s, the Oberheim Matrix could also store patches.