street priceThe first instrument by MFB, which also looks as good as it sounds, before that the company used modest housings of cheap materials for its instruments. Dominion X is assembled within a metal housing with wooden sides and has, perhaps, everything necessary to be called an "analog synthesizer module for the 21st century".
MFB Dominion X has the architecture which has already become standard for modern analog synthesizers: the microprocessor controls the analog path. Such a structure provides reliability, simplifies control and extends the capabilities of an analog synthesizer.
Dominion X contains three identical voltage-controlled oscillators (VCO), which produce triangular, sawtooth and rectangular waveforms. In the "PW" mode, the basic wave can be transformed: a triangle into a sine, a saw - triangle, a meander - a pulsating wave with a controlled duty cycle. Pulse-width modes (PWM from LFO1), frequency (FM from VCO3) and ring modulation ("ring" multiplication of VCO signals) are also available.
For each oscillator, an octave switch, a modulation depth controller, and a microtuning controller are provided.
In the mixer section, the signal level from the three VCOs and the noise source or external source is set.
The voltage-controlled filter (VCF) has several operating modes:
VCF has resonance, cutoff and modulation depth adjustments from the ADSR envelope generator. Use the "Key" button to set the keyboard tracking mode (higher notes have a higher cutoff frequency). LFO1, LFO2, VCO2 or VCO3 can be the filter modulation source.
An interesting detail observed in Dominion X - the "feedback" regulator, which allows to send a signal from the synthesizer output back to the filter section.
Two modulatable low frequency (LFO) oscillators produce a sine, triangular, sawtooth, inverse, square and S&H waveforms. For each of them, a reset mode is provided for the start of each new note.
The third LFO "MOD" is designed to work in conjunction with the commands of the modulation wheel. It produces a triangular wave that can be directed to modulate VCO, VCF, VCA.
For integration with modular systems, MFB Dominion X has nine mini jack inputs for control signals.
You can save the synthesizer settings to one of 128 memory locations.
Country of origin / production: Germany
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| Usage area | |
|---|---|
| Modular System | |
| Sound Module/ Tone Generator | |
| Usage Design/ Form Factor | |
| Without Keys, Desktop | |
| Archetype | |
| Hybrid, Digital+Analog | |
| Polyphony | |
| Monophonic | |
| Tone Generator / Sound Synthesis | |
| Oscillators overall | 3 |
| Oscillator Type | VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator) |
| Oscillators per voice | 3 |
| Waveform/ Spectral form (main generator) | Sine |
| Waveform/ Spectral form (main generator) | Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) |
| Waveform/ Spectral form (main generator) | Triangle |
| Waveform/ Spectral form (main generator) | Saw |
| Waveform/ Spectral form (main generator) | Reverse Sawtooth |
| Programs/ Voices/ Timbres | |
| Patches | 128 |
| Filter | |
| Voltage Controlled Filter (VCF) | |
| High-pass Filter (HPF) | |
| Low-pass Filter (LPF) | |
| Band-pass Filter (BPF) | |
| Band-reject Filter (BRF/ BEF) | |
| Envelope Generator (EG) | |
| Filter | ADSR |
| Amp | ADSR |
| ADSR | |
| MIDI | |
| General MIDI (GM) | |
| MIDI in/ out | |
| IN | |
| OUT | |
| THRU | |
| Display | |
| Display type | LED |
| Color resolution | Monochrome |
| Audio out | |
| Mono | |
| Analogue: 1/4" (6.35mm) | 1 |
| Audio in | |
| Analog 1/4" | 1 |
| Power | |
| Power Supply | External |
| Dimensions | |
| Height | 60 mm |
| Width | 330 mm |
| Depth | 170 mm |
| Weight | 1.2 kg |
| Case/ body | |
| Metal&wood | |
| Color | |
| Black | |
| Production start | 2012 |
| Production ended | |
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