Future Retro Starts Shipping Innovative R2 Revolution Synthesizer

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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