Here’s your first look at Frequency Central Florian Synthesiser – what if a Roland SH-2 had a modular baby with an ARP Odyssey, but the midwife was a mad English scientist? Florian is our first dual VCO synthesiser! The name is a tribute to Florian Schneider-Elsleben, who passed the same week that we conceptualised this synthesiser.
Florian features the following sub-modules, all behind a single 42HP panel:
- 2 x XVCO, our legendary discrete VCO based on the Roland 100M design
- Sub oscillator offering -1 octave square, -2 octave square, and -2 ocatve pulse
- Digital ring modulator, taking VCO1 and VCO2 as it’s X and Y input.
- Voltage controlled filter offering lowpass, bandpass, and highpass responses, based on Roland 700 multimode filter
- ADSR based around AS3310 chip, offering normal and inverted outputs as well as CV of level
- ARP influenced VCA with ADSR/gate/drone options
- ARP influenced A/R generator with looping option
- LFO1: triangle
- LFO2: saw/triangle/ramp with sync option