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Studiologic Sledge 61-Key 8-Voice Virtual Analog Synthesizer with Waldorf Synth Engine

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Big sounding synth capable of some really wild sounds.

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2014

First of all, since version 1.4 of the firmware, this is a 16 voice synth. The synthesis engine is designed by Waldorf, and has a very Blofeld-like character, but without the fiddly matrix style editing. While it's not as powerful, it's perhaps a bit easier to coax great sounding timbres out of it owing to the large, inviting control surface.

Big pads and brass sounds are of course easy to get, you can do this with a single oscillator and fatten it up with the built in chorus. But beyond that, you also have wavetables (100 total) which adds a layer of digital flair and depth to the sound. On top of that you can get really wild by frequency modulating oscillators 1 > 2 and 2 > 3.

Studiologic definitely made some unusual design choices with this synth however. First, aftertouch always follows whatever you have the modulation wheel set to. I would have liked to be able to configure this separately. Second, there is no freely assignable envelope, and the filter envelope can't be routed via the limited modulation matrix. However both LFOs have a "Ramp" waveform which really is more like a very basic envelope with speed and depth controlling the attack/decay. Third, there is no LFO sync which can get messy if you're using LFO on a polyphonic sound. I would have liked to see a sync option as well as a retrigger option so that each key press could reset the LFO wave cycle.

Overall though, it's a pretty interesting synth which is definitely unique, not just because of it's school bus yellow color and the fact that the I/O is strangely located on the left hand side of the synth. It definitely left more of an impression on me than the Nord stuff if only due to it's wider range of oscillator options.

Pros: Big keyboard, good if you like synth action. Excellent control surface, wide tonal range.
Cons: Terrible documentation, no LFO sync, monotimbral, etc.

Sledge's 2.0 operating system is due out soon which will add 60mb of sample import (most likely using Waldorf's "Spectre" software) and though the demo was in Italian I'm pretty sure I heard mention of splits and layers which would be terrific!

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