Owner’s manual · Part 2 · The gear route

Real machines

After the fundamentals, the manual moves through specific instruments in order. Each stop maps the playground ideas to the actual knobs, menus and manual pages, with sound recipes you can try in the browser first and then on the hardware.

1. Stop 01

   ASM

   Hydrasynth Deluxe

   Digital wavetable poly

   Wavetables, Mutators, a deep mod matrix and polyphonic aftertouch.

   Open the pack

2. Stop 02

   Oxford Synthesiser Co.

   OSCar

   Hybrid mono / duo

   Additive waveforms into a dual-mode analog filter — 1983 attitude.

   In production

3. Stop 03

   Roland Boutique

   SH-01A

   SH-101 lineage

   One oscillator, a sub, a filter and a step sequencer. Pure basics.

   Open the pack

4. Stop 04

   Roland AIRA

   TB-3 · MX-1 · TR-8S

   Acid, mixing, rhythm

   Accent and slide, then routing a whole live rig through a mixer.

   In production

5. Stop 05

   The canon

   303 · 808 · 909

   Where it started

   The bass line, the boom and the hats that wrote dance music.

   In production

Fig. G-1 · Drawings are generic line studies for identification, not product art.