Polyvera
Polyphonic digital/analog synthesizer and sampler with 6 voices and effects
Polyvera is the result of 4 years of development. The result is simply a synthesizer that we love and that we want to share with likeminded musicians.
Polyvera revives details of the 80s digital sound that we love and reinterprets them in a modern way, thanks to analog filters and powerful sound design features, to create sounds that go beyond legacy.
At the core of Polyvera there are 2 oscillators (wavetable or sampler) with modern and vintage digital styles. While analog-style warm waveforms are possible, the oscillators can even recreate the alias and digital grit of early vintage synthesizers and samplers.
A multimode analog filter with overdrive fattens the sound and shapes the digital artifacts in new and musical ways.
Two effects and versatile modulation options enrich the sound with details.
Polyvera is designed for musicians who want to go beyond clones and already heard sounds and sound explorers who go beyond presets.
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Vintage digital
At the beginning of the 80s, technology allowed the release of the first affordable digital wavetable oscillators and samplers. Those brilliant engineers had to invent creative solutions to cope with the processing and memory limitations of that time.
The result was a gritty, artificial timbre, rich of alias and artifacts, which became a trademark of the digital electronic sound of the 80s. Already by the end of the decade, technology had evolved to the point that digital artifacts had become barely audible and far less interesting, in a musical sense.
Polyvera’s oscillators recreate digital artifacts that are carefully styled after some of the most iconic wavetable synthesizers and samplers from the early 80s. You can switch between high-quality modern-sounding oscillators and various vintage models, even including modded versions of vintage instruments.
Analog heart
A secret of the early 80s digital synthesizers and samplers is that they actually used analog filters, which greatly contributed to the beauty and punch of their sound. Polyvera innovates those vintage filter designs by providing 8 different analog filter types based on a classic synth analog filter chip. The filters can be overdriven, they can be brought to self-oscillation and can be frequency-modulated, providing endless flavors ranging from classic analog sounds to purely experiemntal ones. The lowpass filter can even be combined with an analog post-filter distortion stage.
The combination of vintage-sounding digital oscillators with Polyvera’s proprietary warm analog filters is the key to the beauty of its sound.
