The Leads and Pads categories are the highlights, featuring some excellently edgy sounds and dynamically evolving textures but mention also needs to be made of the numerous Sequence and Effects patches, which really put the Step Envelope to work. The hardwired modulation options are very effective, although a modulation matrix would, of course, be a welcome addition.Īn important consideration with a synth like this is its presets, and Carbon Electra has over 600 of them, split between its categorised Factory library and Artist Presets, which include contributions from Carl Cox, Freemasons and many others. Sonically, it's crisp and responsive, while the combination of four oscillators, unison and onboard effects make it more than up to the job of blasting out big, bold riff sounds. Electra-fiedĬarbon Electra is very straightforward to program, so building sounds from the initialised preset is easy. The Master section includes Glide (0-4 seconds), Polyphony (1-16 voices), Unison (up to 4x) and output Limiter controls. The Effects section's five modules comprise Chorus, Delay, Phaser, Distortion and Equalizer, between them delivering plenty of useful processing. Each one is hardwired to five fixed targets (so that's 15 targets in total), including oscillator pitch, pulse width, mixer levels, filter cutoff and resonance. The three LFOs offer five waveshapes (Pulse, Ramp/Triangle, S-Curve/Sine, Filtered noise and S&H Noise/Ramp&Hold/Random), with shape variants dialled in with the Width control.
The Modulation envelope includes three dedicated Pitch assignments (Oscillator 2, 4 and all oscillators), and is also hardwired to the filter.
Both of Carbon Electra's two ADSR envelopes (Amplifier and Modulation) include adjustable keyboard and velocity tracking, while the amp envelope sports an exponential option for a more gradual attack shape, and a post- envelope-but-pre-Effects level control.
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