Product: Electro-Harmonix Mini Synthesizer
Price Paid: US $125
Submitted
12/17/2003
at
04:12am
by
chip
Email: chipbrandstetter at aol<dot>com
Ease of Use
:
8
no presets-just switches and sliders-the sounds you can create are thin and nasal to HUGE
Features
:
6
this little instrument has a membrane switch keyboard...i've had to cover parts of it with electrical tape and this has not affected anything. it has a built-in phase shifting effect, an octave switch that expands the range of the short keyboard, a tuning slider with about an octave range, a sub octave slider, a filter, a resonance switch and some crude envelope controls. the keyswitches themselves
ARE velocity sensitive and can also affect the filter. it's a non-expandable instrument, no sequencer, no midi...
Expressiveness/Sounds
:
No Opinion
i've used this thing to play rock live, but one might be better off sampling it and playing it back from a real keyboard...that membrane keyboard is definitely different to play-
Reliability
:
6
the back panel of this thing is made of CARDBOARD, so get it wet or sweaty and the thing will start to disintegrate...i would no longer use it on a gig...however, i DID forget about on top of a car once, drove thirty miles, went back to get it, found it in two pieces, glued it back together and it works as good as it ever did...
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
never dealt with'em...
Overall Rating
:
7
it's a cool little piece if you can find it...i think if you run it through a delay you can get a sound that rivals MOOG taurus pedals...i used to run it through a delay and an EH big muff...now THAT's a party
