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Disappointing
As both a drone synthesist and kalimba player I've been really excited about this one when I heard about it. Resonating metal tongues you can connect to a sequencer? Check. No need to pre-record/loop sequences before feeding it into effects? Check. Live manipulation to get some more weirdities and variation ouf it? Check!
All really cool points in my book. But what's in front of me feels... well, bland. And questionably limited. None of the per-note envelope and modulation settings feel particularly impactful, envelope lengths are a bit of a joke and whatever modulation you can fool around with just adds drive, muffle or minor waveform changes. Yes, you can play with the tongues directly but there's so little room you'd be better off fingerdrumming on a contact mic and it'd sounds just the same. You can do a bunch of things with the sequencer but given how almost nothing on this really feels worth tweaking and you only get 8 steps for any voice anyway... nope, sorry.
At the end of the day it's a toy - a sort of "Volcalimba" to add some plinky-plonky to your oompa-doompa. Don't get me wrong, it's a quite unique at what does and I might've been a bit too invested in what it could do. But given a price point of 969€ it feels woefully ill-equipped on its own. Interesting, yes, but ultimately disappointing. I do love the buttons, though!
All really cool points in my book. But what's in front of me feels... well, bland. And questionably limited. None of the per-note envelope and modulation settings feel particularly impactful, envelope lengths are a bit of a joke and whatever modulation you can fool around with just adds drive, muffle or minor waveform changes. Yes, you can play with the tongues directly but there's so little room you'd be better off fingerdrumming on a contact mic and it'd sounds just the same. You can do a bunch of things with the sequencer but given how almost nothing on this really feels worth tweaking and you only get 8 steps for any voice anyway... nope, sorry.
At the end of the day it's a toy - a sort of "Volcalimba" to add some plinky-plonky to your oompa-doompa. Don't get me wrong, it's a quite unique at what does and I might've been a bit too invested in what it could do. But given a price point of 969€ it feels woefully ill-equipped on its own. Interesting, yes, but ultimately disappointing. I do love the buttons, though!
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Faszinierend und weniger eingeschränkt als man zuerst vermutet
Die Verarbeitung ist erstklassig. Alles bis zum Recycling wunderbar nachgedacht. Da ist der phase8 ein absolutes Musterbeispiel an Engineering. Der Stepsequencer ist mit 8 Steps ohne Modulatoren zu eingeschränkt. Wer aber auf die quantisierten Steps verzichtet, kann weit mehr Noten unterbringen oder nutzt gleich Midi Sequencer. Ich kann nicht einschätzen wie viel Manipulation an den Tonabnehmern der phase8 vertragen kann. Die sind zum einen sehr empfindlich und reagieren schon auf leichte Felder der Hand. Vermutlich gibt es da viele Möglichkeiten aus dem Klang des Teils viel viel mehr rauszuholen. Vielleicht ist da auch der Punkt wo der Übergang aus Elektro und Akustik gelingt. Ich war da bei dem teuren Gerät vermutlich viel zu vorsichtig um die Experimente zu wagen, die die Klänge hervorbringen, die ich mir vorgestellt hatte. Für die Bühne ist der phase8 vermutlich nichts. Dafür ist das Gehäuse zu (Berührungs-) empfindlich.
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