Oxi Coral Multitimbral Synth Module (Demo and Thoughts) 

Thanks for the video and your hones opinions Jeremy! We wanted to anticipate that we will be releasing 2.0 firmware this week that includes new sound engines, workflow settings and a Delay Effect (replacing noise) and High Pass filter (replacing chorus, convenient for better mixdowns).

I think what is amazing about this module is that you can still have a polyphonic synth while using several mono parts. For example in the syntakt you can't play chords (unless using the chord machine). That's a shame . That's why many people find Coral really useful and "magical"

Thanks for the honest review Jeremy. I love that you can be honest about both the good and the bad without needing to have a polarizing black & white "conclusion" for the algorithm. In my case, the beautiful polyphonic sounds you demoed makes Coral potentially interesting to me, so I'm grateful to also know the caveats you share in your review so I can make an informed choice.

Love my Coral. Thanks for the review. Using the syntakt with it was a great idea.

I feel like the Coral was made specifically to go with the Oxi One coupled with the Pipe to make it a controller for your Eurorack rig...the Coral workflow seems to align with the Oxi One like siblings in Alabama

Coral is more easily modulated by midi if using the multitimbral aspect, but if you’re sticking to the singe engine poly mode, the cv inputs offer quite a bit of access to the engines parameters, this was overlooked. Which is odd since that seem to be your preference for eurorack modules, it has 9 cv inputs to affect your poly engine, including the ability to cv engine.

Honestly at that price it's a pretty attractive desktop synth. Multitimbral polysynths at that price are rare (can't think of anything but Blofeld or Digitone) even if you got to buy a minicase to house it. 🤷‍♀️

seems perfect for a hybrid euro tracker step tbh

The multitimbral aspect is fun if you stack sounds to make huge leads or fx. And as a module to play chords, it beats the knobula for versatility. Even as a simple mono voice, it replaces a plaits clone, a filter and env to make a complete synth voice WITH fx. But you’re right, trying to make it do more than one thing at a time is too fussy to be fun.

Thanks for the hang, bud.

would work well with Hermod plus.

Thanks, I also think this would be a good idea as a desktop version with more buttons and perhaps easier navigation with a suitable display. I also find the module interesting, but for me it's too complicated and primarily with midi instead of CV, it's not my thing. I can see that many people are having fun with it, which I think is good. The OXI team is certainly doing a good job, I think they have achieved a lot. But I would probably rather buy an additional 4ms ensemble. If I had the money, I'd prefer 8 of them. I would love to see or hear something crazy 🤪 like that, multitimbral a la eurorack.

I have one. But it's yet another deep well of "features" to try and remember how to get to and use. And eggzactly, the Coral would be a lot better "instrument" if it was in a Microfreak type form, for example. Hard to know where the line is though. So I'd say you characterize it very well. Probably better in your head than what you could articulate. ;-)

ohh and you can also play chords with CV !!

I really appreciate this review. I've honestly wanted a small rack to replace a lot of the synths I want, but I'm such a slut for midi that these modules are kinda doing it for me? I love the depth and weirdness and the experimentality of learning / adapting / fucking with these, but I'm also heeding your warnings about the obtuse nature of midi modules. Imho they seem more suitable for dabblers? Which, like, me for sure. Also I'm allergic to cats but I have some bunnies to which I shall apply the commensurate smooches in your honour.

I love mine but the chorus isn't very satisfying.. the Vector is a great sequencer to pair with it because of midi. Make chords in modular easy

My thought process: ‘Oooh! A full poly synth voice in a small module. Neat!… Wait it’s only usable via dedicated MIDI. 😢’. Being only effective via MIDI seems like it’s defeating the purpose of being in a Eurorack format. Feels like it should be a desktop groove box.

Very cool review!! Works for me because my setup is midi powered. New to eurorack so dealing with cv is from a newbie point of view. That noise option sucks and hope the coming update improves that feature.

I just kissed my cat. Great video btw thank you for sharing your thoughts!

Nice!. R u Coming to Berlin this year?

Sup