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PX SunBox
Galactic Analog/Digital Hybrid Synth
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Inspired by the incredible German-born SunSyn
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420 layers deliver a massive range of unique and inspiring sounds
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Explore hundreds of custom presets and create your own
INSPIRATION
The Best of Both Worlds
A feat of instrument design, the SunSyn is a fantastically complex-in-all-the-right-
places labor of love from German synthmaker JoMoX. Released in 1999, it can be
considered in simple terms as an 8-voice polyphonic analog/digital hybrid, or in a
more adventurous way as 8 discrete modular mono synths. Each voice is outfitted
with 2 true analog oscillators capable of saw, square, or pulse with PWM, and 2
guided digital oscillators with hundreds of waveforms and custom sample support.
Shape-Shifter
The filter section is equally impressive, with a morphable 4-pole true analog
filter with discrete control over each pole’s cutoff frequency. But maybe the most
groundbreaking aspect is the modulation matrix. In spirit it’s much closer to that
of larger modular analog systems, allowing 4096 possible routings per element, 4
elements per voice, all done in the analog domain. But unlike fully analog systems
the modulation routings here can be quickly made through an interactive matrix
and saved in patch memory for instant recall.
INSTRUMENT
Resurrecting a Sun
Working with such a complicated instrument has its challenges, especially given
its age and limited production. Many parts for the SunSyn are extremely rare
and almost impossible to source. In our case, to complete the servicing and
refurbishment our tech had to purge parts from a second unit. An expensive
and somewhat painful process but worth it in the end, as our sound designers
headed off to work on a fully-restored and perfectly calibrated instrument with
factory-spec parts.
Deep Sound Design
Sound design possibilities on the SunSyn are nearly endless, and the results of our
process with it are evident. From massive, rich, and evolving polysynth sounds
created in multi-mode, to devastating and aggressive monosynth sounds utilizing
modulations of both analog oscillators, the digital RCOs, and filter morphing.
We designed and recorded hundreds of multisampled soundsets, ending with
a curated selection of 420 layers, delivering what we think represent the most
unique, charactered, and sometimes epic, sounds possible on this machine.
Professional Presets
Bass, Bells, Brass, FX, Keys, Leads, Native Sequences, Organ, Pads, Percussive,
Plucks, Polysynth, Strings, Sweeps, Voices, Waveform Analog, Waveform Digital,
over 452 all-new + custom designed presets are available, built from a library
of 30,660 authentic hardware samples. All presets are fully-editable, meaning
you can deeply customize them or evey create your own. And the dual-layer
architecture of PX SunBox allows you to easily create incredible layered tones
from any combination of the included sounds.
Fully-Editable Architecture
PX SunBox gives you a deep and capable toolset for creating and editing patches.
From the dual-layer architecture with ADSR amp envelopes, multimode filters
with envelope, poly or mono modes with glide, pitch shifting and advanced
stereo modes, and handy modwheel mappings, to LFO and step modulators,
two feature-rich arpeggiators, and a generous selection of high-quality effects
including 3-band EQ with sweepable crossover, drive, Thorus, ensemble, Phasor,
digital delay, and Sparkverb.
Feel the Heat
An absolutely tremendous library of new sounds packed in a versatile and
deeply-editable instrument, explore the incredible hardware tones of a uniquely
ambitious hybrid German synthesizer with PX SunBox.
PROTOTYPE SERIES
PX SunBox is part of the PX line of instruments, exploring the world of unique, rare
and sometimes unreleased electronic and acoustic instruments
Minimum System Requirements
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Latest version of UVI Workstation or Falcon
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4.88 GB of disk space
For more information on the installation process, please refer to
the document:
Introduction
