Abstrakt Instruments Avalon, synth and sequencer

Abstrakt Instruments was inspired by the Roland TB-303 bass synth to design the core circuit in Avalon, to which they added an analog/digital hybrid circuit and a slot for expansion cards that will work just like to use plug-ins in your DAW.

Specifications:

• Analog synthesizer with:
• • One oscillator with square and saw waveforms, and a range of 5 octaves
  • A sub-oscillator with saw, triangle and square waveforms, a –1 and –2 octave range
  • Filters with cutoff frequency, resonance, envelope modulation, modulation depth and tracking
  • Filter envelope with decay, accent decay times and accent depth controls
  • Utility envelope with attack and decay times, trigger source (gate, accent, slide, non-accent), VCA and filter modulation depths (bipolar)
  • VCA envelope with decay and modulation depth
• Digital sequencer with:
• • 44 patterns that can be transferred via MIDI/USB, 64 steps max, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 and triplet modes
  • Copy, paste, clear, dump, reverse, random, skip step functions
  • Shuffle
  • Slide times: 50ms, 100ms, 400ms and 2s
  • Arpeggiator with live, real time, pitch and time per step recording modes
  • Memorized pitch, note length, accent, slide, Utility envelope trigger source, backlight and Filter B mode per pattern
  • 56 tracks (7×8) that can be transferred via MIDI/USB
  • Track chain and transpose functions, with pattern order, chaining, repeat and per step transpose setting storing
  • Tempos between 40 and 300 BPM
  • Chromatic keyboard
• Audio outputs: main, headphones, saw, square, filter/amp
• Audio input: filter
• Gate/CV in and out
• Filter CV in
• Accent Sweep out
• USB port
• MIDI in and out
• DINSync in and out
• Synth Cartridge System slot
• Dimensions: 346 × 172 × 45mm
• Weight: 2.36 kg

The Avalon is not available yet but according to Abstrakt Instruments, its price should stay below $1000.

The manufacturer will also offer 5 filter cards that can be hot-swapped to expand the synth capacities:

• Transistor Ladder Filter: based on the Minimoog filter with 12dB and 24dB modes
• SEM State Variable Filter: based on the Oberheim SEM filter with high- and low-pass modes
• JP Low Pass Filter: based on the filter of the Juno 6/60 and Jupiter 8 with 12 and 24dB modes
• 4075 Low Pass Filter: reproduces the low-pass filter on the ARP 4075 with 12 and 24dB modes
• Wasp Multimode Filter: a version of the Wasp 12dB multimode filter

Discover the Avalon and the filter cartridges at www.abstraktinstruments.com.