Sincere Appreciation

Hi!

First; Sincere congratulations to team Lambada for making such a spectacular instrument !

I dont own a PolyPulse, but I have followed it very closely & I’ve been waiting for someone to craft a sonic samuary live groove station for a very long time, more so as in a sampler with synthesis but this thing is just cosmic that I just have to swing it this way

I’ve researched so many groove boxes and own and dearly love a spectralis (a unit that never really got its OS finish) … I almost feel like this is the evolution of what I wanted the spectralis is to be.

Very impressed by the sound of the unit, its stunningly good, like Jomox level good and compared to every other mordern groove box out there it sounds like a real instrument, with analog or acoustic like quality to it. All the others; Elektron, MPC, Roland, NI, Polyend; all have this ITB boxed sound, they have their character but still sound very rounded /dithered or boxed for a better word, it gives them this virtual or band limited/compressed smear like characteristics, even the recent OP XY which is the clearest and most detailed digital sampler I’ve ever heard suffers from this very clean/ dithered CPU digital sound playing back the sum of all its parts.

So I dont know what Ward /Lambada team did, or where the magic lies, but this machine just sounds next level, it’s all digital but the engines and FX all have amazing sonic imprint and life. Even the samples have space, clarity and dimension not common to digital only samplers.
Ward seems like a young guy and it’s quite amazing to come out swinging with such a sound, it has Euro rack quality to it and reminds me a lot of MI in how lively it is at the core. Same for the FX from what I’ve heard; they sound of superb are very liquid/ alive and spectral

So yhea; The most dynamic digital unit I’ve ever heard and Im thrilled by the ‘‘live oriented design’’ and the exotic river of unicorns that run note list and pulses into a wolrd of nu-grooves :unicorn:

It’s not often nowadays that an instrument comes along that can create or re-invent new musical genders but the PolyPulse candidate this as its forte.

I’m here to learn more and hope to participate with some features and suggestion that I think the unit would benefit from (I’ve been counseling such for two decades) and would love to have one and preform on a PolyPulse in the coming future

Thank you so sincerely; Ward and team Lambada for such an incredible instrument!

Looking forward too it!
Much love

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I’d never heard of the Spectralis before. After seeing Radikal’s web site and some inspiring YT demos from Midera, it does seem akin to the PolyPulse. If this performance is truly monophonic, then I’m amazed and will never again feel boxed in by the PolyPulse’s polyphony limit.

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The spectralis is the exception :wink: its my favored workstation , as I said I love it dearly, I also run a MPC4000 has crystal clear sound, vinyl at 24/96 sound so crisp …But the 4k sound is cold and if not modulated sterile, but its punchy and detailed

There seams to have been some tech shift in as how the new groove boxes all seams to have this boxed CPU sound, dont know if everyone is using standard mass components in their design (same convertor tech/ CPU Raspberry dithering protocall) or what, but they all sound very boxed

The Spectralis has analog Filters (Multimode + LP) + a digital filter bank with modular like routing within a 4x Complex OSC digital modular system and 15x sample based parts, it brings a unique (phat) sound to samples that get loaded into it. It sounds super nice, but you need to master all the gain staging to stay within the sweet spots and get crafty with the modulation to get the best out of it, .endless discoveries via stepline envelopes and cross modulation, multiple lines per target etc… its though easy to make it sound bad/narrly, like when over applying pulse with to non Square waveforms that are synced or cross-modulated …etc .

it’s like with everything sonic with power, it needs sensibility :wink:

Welcome and thanks for the kind words!