FORMANTA POLIVOKS - A Very Soviet Synthesizer | Review, Sounds & Demo

Polyvox, it's not a municipal synthesizer

get a WASP clone & a distortion pedal and your good to go...

What a massive sounding filter. Arturia could learn something here :)

Bravo !

Шикарный звук шикарного синтезатора 🙂👍

Hey! Can you tell me how to connect mine to my Apollo twin x / into Abelton? Thank you!

The intro sound made me hysterically happy that I almost chocked
God I love that sound so menacing ❤

Mick Gordon use it for Doom's Soundtrack... you can check his video "doom behind the music".
lovely synth !

Wow the part with the two looping envelopes around 11 mins in was so cool! What a unique sound. I think I need one…

🇷🇺🎹💥

cyrillic language..

PolyVox - is a true english name of this synth.

С этого синтезатора начинали многие русские электронные музыканты!

If Moog, Sequential and Radio Shack had a love baby, this is it.
‘In da club, get some hugs,
Take em home n get some luv’
Add in twisting a knob or two an flippin switches.
I love this synth! It’s dirty and built to play hard!

If only the keyboard was better quality...otherwise great and unpredictable synth.

Here after the trash taste ep😅

I genuinely want/need one of these. It’s got a really unique sound to it.

No dislikes. It better stay that way.

already mean to send such an analog saynthesizer through a cold digital reverb

goddamn the resonance on this thing! hopefully Uli and team will capture exactly that

The design really looks like a tank … and I bet it feels like one and sounds awesome 👏

Fantastically gritty! Sounds like a nuclear power plant in heat.

Sounds like Yamaha... same tone

This resonance sounds like anything else, I remember some kid's cartoons and retro soviet cinema with such sounds, like from Mars, I always wondered how they did it :)

Great video of the Polivoks! Such a cool synth.. Message me so we can get together. I'm located in same city I believe.

Wicked

the beginning sounds like Marv's screaming from Home Alone 2 lol....

I didn't know there is Cyrillic language.

Sovietの楽器といえばThereminがおもいつく。
こちらを進化させた楽器を作ればいいのに・・・とおもう。

This thing sounds incredible. Nice demo.

Now after this video we are waiting for you to write music with the use of the polivox synthesizer

Напишу русский комментарий, что бы иностранцы ни хрена не поняли.

So, guys, who's into Behringer's version? Bolivoks?

Great vid. Have always wanted a Polivoks. Those white switches make me laugh. Reminds me of those things they scratch you with on an allergy skin test.

Thank you for this overview, I like it! However come notes. It seems s&h circuitry in Modulator doesn’t work. Then no need to depress all the time key demonstrating sound, just press down ON switch in VCA section, s&h circuit in the Keyboard module will keep the last depressed key voltage. Multy mode in VCF and VCA EGs begin to work properly when SUSTAIN knobs are set to 0 position and stop oscillating in 0-1 position. Filter has constant tracking of the keyboard voltage. Portamento is only for OSC1. The tuning trimming pots under small lid don’t have markers but they are impressed in the back side of this lid. Of coarse I am sure you know all this, I only want to supplement your description.

Cool synth!

Very cool synth

Well done! Thanks for sharing.

Looks like a Korg Delta model. I cannot distinguish if the equipment have MIDI interface.

When you turned up the resonance, instantly thought of Kraftwerk. You did a fantastic job with this Formanta Polivoks, explaining the history and workings... Very nice indeed! 🎹 🎶 😎

Just a guess- but I suspect that the S&H needs a re-cap to hold the voltage values

Great video and a wonderful synth!

Still a fantastic synth that I would love to check out one day, too.
Thanks for this informative video and keep on your great work, please!

AFAIR it's been used extensively on the doom soundtrack