Eternal Engine EMI MARS Vacuum-Tube Synthesizer: Most Aggressive Modern Synth Have Ever Tested
What happens when you build vacuum tube-based hybrid synthesizer in Soviet space lab and send it back from future? Today we're demoing, reviewing and explaining MARS from Eternal Engine Electronic Musical Instruments - one of strangest, most beautiful and most aggressive modern synthesizers have ever played. MARS is often described as four-voice polyphonic tube synthesizer, but architecturally it's more accurately paraphonic synthesizer. Four digital oscillator voices can be played across multiple notes, but they all share same tube-based filter and vactrol-based amplifier. That puts MARS more in tradition of instruments like Korg Mono/Poly and Formanta Polivoks than conventional analog polysynth. In this video, we walk through full architecture of Eternal Engine MARS: digital oscillator section, mono / duo / poly voice modes, pulse-width modulation, ensemble mode, FM synthesis, modulation matrix, envelopes, LFO, sample & hold, gorgeous Nixie lamp interface, resonant vacuum tube filter and asymmetric tube overdrive that gives this synth its raw, snarling character. This is not safe, polite, modern analog synth. MARS is boutique, unusual, heavy, beautifully built and absolutely vicious when pushed. Tube filter and drive section give it sound that feels alive in way most modern synthesizers don't - somewhere between vintage analog synth, industrial bass machine, experimental sound design box and Soviet Sci-Fi artifact. If you're into Industrial music, EBM, Darkwave, Synthwave, Experimental Electronic music, vintage synthesizers, boutique synths, tube distortion, paraphonic synthesis, analog filters, FM basses, PWM pads, or Polivoks-style aggression, MARS is worth hearing. We also talk through who think this synth is actually for - and who should probably pass on it. Because while absolutely adore sound, MARS is not cheap "do everything" synth and it's not trying to compete with mass-market analog polysynths. It's character instrument. Monster. Special machine for people who want something truly different. Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro Jam 02:17 - Mono Mode & Basic Oscillator Shapes 04:16 - Vacuum Tube Filter 07:49 - Duo Mode / Polivoks-Style Duophony 08:47 - Poly 1 Mode / Korg Mono/Poly Behavior 10:47 - Ensemble Mode & Supersaw Sounds 14:14 - LFO Shapes, Retrigger & One-Shot Mode 17:31 - Sample & Hold Filter Modulation 20:16 - FM Synthesis Overview 29:00 - Pros & Cons 37:43 - Closing Thoughts www.apparatus.su/mars.html Playlists: https://rutube.ru/plst/955555 https://vkvideo.ru/playlist/-235081080_40 #EternalEngine | #MARS Original video: https://youtu.be/uq08TlN0Ark
What happens when you build vacuum tube-based hybrid synthesizer in Soviet space lab and send it back from future? Today we're demoing, reviewing and explaining MARS from Eternal Engine Electronic Musical Instruments - one of strangest, most beautiful and most aggressive modern synthesizers have ever played. MARS is often described as four-voice polyphonic tube synthesizer, but architecturally it's more accurately paraphonic synthesizer. Four digital oscillator voices can be played across multiple notes, but they all share same tube-based filter and vactrol-based amplifier. That puts MARS more in tradition of instruments like Korg Mono/Poly and Formanta Polivoks than conventional analog polysynth. In this video, we walk through full architecture of Eternal Engine MARS: digital oscillator section, mono / duo / poly voice modes, pulse-width modulation, ensemble mode, FM synthesis, modulation matrix, envelopes, LFO, sample & hold, gorgeous Nixie lamp interface, resonant vacuum tube filter and asymmetric tube overdrive that gives this synth its raw, snarling character. This is not safe, polite, modern analog synth. MARS is boutique, unusual, heavy, beautifully built and absolutely vicious when pushed. Tube filter and drive section give it sound that feels alive in way most modern synthesizers don't - somewhere between vintage analog synth, industrial bass machine, experimental sound design box and Soviet Sci-Fi artifact. If you're into Industrial music, EBM, Darkwave, Synthwave, Experimental Electronic music, vintage synthesizers, boutique synths, tube distortion, paraphonic synthesis, analog filters, FM basses, PWM pads, or Polivoks-style aggression, MARS is worth hearing. We also talk through who think this synth is actually for - and who should probably pass on it. Because while absolutely adore sound, MARS is not cheap "do everything" synth and it's not trying to compete with mass-market analog polysynths. It's character instrument. Monster. Special machine for people who want something truly different. Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro Jam 02:17 - Mono Mode & Basic Oscillator Shapes 04:16 - Vacuum Tube Filter 07:49 - Duo Mode / Polivoks-Style Duophony 08:47 - Poly 1 Mode / Korg Mono/Poly Behavior 10:47 - Ensemble Mode & Supersaw Sounds 14:14 - LFO Shapes, Retrigger & One-Shot Mode 17:31 - Sample & Hold Filter Modulation 20:16 - FM Synthesis Overview 29:00 - Pros & Cons 37:43 - Closing Thoughts www.apparatus.su/mars.html Playlists: https://rutube.ru/plst/955555 https://vkvideo.ru/playlist/-235081080_40 #EternalEngine | #MARS Original video: https://youtu.be/uq08TlN0Ark