Demo of Kilpatrick Audio Phenol - patchable analog synthesizer. Download audio: / intomachine More info on the PHENOL: www.kilpatrickaudio.com/?p=phenol
You are a master at playing this instrument. Been looking at every Phenol video for the past week and you are the only one who seems to make this instrument unearthly in nature. I was starting to give up on wanting to buy one but apparently it is well worth the price as its got plenty of sound possibilities. Awesome. :)
Very nice sound. Like many channels showing off the amazing Phenol, I also notice you've got fewer than 1,000 subscribers, and as I always make it a principle to subscribe to any small channels I find with content I enjoy, I have added mine so that you might one day get to 1,000 and can monetize your channel and be easier to discover for people on RU-vid. It's even harder now that they've changed their algorithms to encourage clickbait and small content creators are hidden away out of sight.
Cool. If decide to get a patchable synth, I'll probably just go the traditional Eurorack route, maybe with something like the new Pittsburgh Modular Lifeforms, but I'm definitely interested in hearing more from this Phenol.
very cool demo. considering getting one next month. really like this demo tho so much other demos just sound like random noise and this actually has some nice sound. cheers
cool synth, the only thing i don't get is, why they used banana jacks instead of regular 3,5 mm jacks. you need to buy completely new cables and if you want to use it with an eurorack you have to solder adaptors. thats a real turndown...
Banana has pros and cons. With jacks you can have a normalised patching without cables (as in semi-modular synths) that gets disengaged when the jack is connected, but that can also cause minor voltage glitches if you're a slow patcher. Bananas are less size-critical for a good connection, but are also easier to accidentally tug out (though not to the same extent as the breadboard cables used on some synths). That said, a partially tugged-out banana still works. Bananas require shared ground. Easy to sort out of course, but something that needs to be kept in mind when interfacing with other kit. Bananas feel more organic than jacks for some reason; it's personal taste too. It's not hard making a banana to jack conversion box or male banana to female jack adapter cables, for instance, but if all you've got are using 1/4" jacks it can be a bit of a hassle having to add something new to your workflow. Disregarding the banana vs jack thing, one thing I do like about the Phenol is its amazing value. With two of everything, MIDI to CV conversion, stereo mixer and stereo out, sequencer, randomiser, envelopes that can be used as LFO's, it's a heck of a lot of synth for your money, capable of both West-Coast self-generating weirdness and East-Coast melodic patches as needed. I'm expecting mine in a few days' time.
