All user reviews for the Formanta Radio Factory Polivoks

Monophonic synth or duophonic. 2 oscillators classic
Some features:
* Possibility that alters the OSC1 OSC 2 through a knob: type I think FM
* Mono or duo acoustic by choice (1 switch)
* Instrument input
* Ability to block for the ADSR synth turns infinity loop
* Switchable silently with headphones with volume dedicated routing (never tried)
* There are 2 modes on each ADSR envelopes (filter and volume): I'm personally not pick up too
* Hard Case style tank and filter modulation pedal included for mine

That I possess the keys to painted yellow piss, screen is half cleared, studded with tiny spot of paint, some are painted switch (half) in red ... but indestructible

Looks like a big radio built for military exercises in Ukraine

UTILIZATION

While Cyrillic: essential to have the translation of the front if you want to understand something.
Especially since the layout and functions of the knobs Polivoks is quite unusual.
Otherwise it is handled well once we know who does what

SOUNDS

Then there is EXTREMELY particular. I absolutely recommend this synth to buy without trying, or at least hearing for later use it knowingly. Someone looking for a docile and predictable machine must move on.
I do not understand why it is called the "Russian Moog": the comparison seems completely beside the point.

The Polivoks does not sound like a Moog, it has two oscillators, it looks like a war machine (as opposed to the Moog with its delicate wooden sides): NOTHING TO SEE

It appears that there must also know each Polivoks sounds differently, what I want to believe given the personality of mine:

* Tuning can be random, especially when changing pitch (from 32 'to 16' for example), and it does not stop the strange behavior of the holding of agreement on this synth: it makes part of its particularity.
* The Polivoks life: Can not get the same sound when turned off. While noting the parameters precisely is not worth it. I guess the Polivoks transforms the sound to the order in which you change the settings. This suggests that possibiltés remain endless.
* This synth reacts very weird: if you want to settle such an attack on the envelope amplitude at 0, it goes by much ... we turn to another volume pot and ... hop the attack is super short ... bizarre and unpredictable.

There are other panky on this synth: for example the volume of the instrument input affects the overall sound, or switch selection between Mono and Duo phonic, stuck between the two positions created a kind of random sound on '... OSC2 and other good stuff for geeks incomprehensible knobs 1 = it does exactly what I want (it's not my case, I knew what I was expecting).
Otherwise, the sound can Polivoks monstrously powerful, or very late .. the filter is totally evil, the keyboard is another curiosity, very fast and very rotten. The synth can have in some cases as if the sound going in a Fuzzbox, even with its table set properly.
In short, we like it or not. Question of philosophy. Polivoks is a living machine (this morning, after several minutes of extreme triffouillage knobs, I heard a sound like a sampled voice and very lofi background ... very strange)

I want to clarify that I am talking about my Polivoks, others may react differently

OVERALL OPINION

I like, even love. Others do not love him, it is clear