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.
Hi Vladimir! Thank you for watching the video, and for your comment with extra descriptions! The Polivoks is a fun and unique instrument and I am still exploring its sounds. Yes, the S&H circuit is not working correctly and needs to be fixed... any idea on what part needs to be repaired? Maybe a capacitor recap/replacement or something else? Hope you are doing well considering everything going on these days. Thank you again for creating the Polivoks, it is a great synth. :)
You first need to look diagrams in control points especially on V4 as these pulces open s&h circuit V3C6. The cap C6 is good itself (non-electrolitic) I hope. May be all is good as the cirquitry is very simple. And all you need will be to warm up with soldering iron all sodered points around s&h. Thank you again for video! Yes I am good these days and hope we all will be healthy in NY. Good luck!
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 :)
It's very plastic-y and crappy but that's part of the appeal lol. One of my most prized possessions and hopefully it finds its way onto a CD or something.
They're starting to get expensive. Got mine for $800 a few years ago. If you feel like you'll like it you probably will :P. I run mine through a bass amp and it shakes the room with saw-wave fury.
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! 🎹 🎶 😎
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!
Most of the time I find envelope looping function useless, but looping envelopes of polivoks are amazing, and it can be the best drone synth ever. The lead you play on 16:50 is so sweet and sounds very Arp odyssey like.
I'm serious, if Behringer put this beast of a synth into their eurorack case, add some CV ins and outs, change those ridiculous swithes to buttons that would be just awesome.
Seriously, that would be awesome! I would buy it in a heartbeat! By the way, it would work perfectly with the same angled control panel they are using for their Poly D, MonoPoly and Kobol.
@@ZethKeeper Yes it looks like it. But it is still in the prototype phase, so don't hold your breath just yet... 😉 facebook.com/Behringer/photos/a.10152059078118914/10159051115758914/
@@synth4ever I recently repaired the S& H on a Polivoks and it was the op amp buffer for the S & H that was out. I used an original soviet chip as I keep them in stock(and are cheap to buy from Russia) but an 8 pin J-fet input single op amp will do.
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.
Very good synth У нас в интернате был такой синтезатор... Но все его не любили, сложный в настройке, всего 2 в полифонии, и бл*ь хуёвые переменные резисторы... ТОМ был тогда гораздо привлекателен, чтоб играть "Ласковый май"
@@synth4ever Yeah, those are just letters. 7 letters you already know ACEKMOT and if you learned math and physics you know few more from Greek alphabet ДГПЛФР(delta, gamma, pi, lambda, fi, ro). So it is nothing like learning Chinese.
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.
Hi Vladimir! Thank you for watching the video, and for your comment with extra descriptions! The Polivoks is a fun and unique instrument and I am still exploring its sounds.
Yes, the S&H circuit is not working correctly and needs to be fixed... any idea on what part needs to be repaired? Maybe a capacitor recap/replacement or something else?
Hope you are doing well considering everything going on these days. Thank you again for creating the Polivoks, it is a great synth. :)
You first need to look diagrams in control points especially on V4 as these pulces open s&h circuit V3C6. The cap C6 is good itself (non-electrolitic) I hope. May be all is good as the cirquitry is very simple. And all you need will be to warm up with soldering iron all sodered points around s&h. Thank you again for video! Yes I am good these days and hope we all will be healthy in NY. Good luck!
@Cody Jasper yea, have been using instaflixxer for months myself :D
Congrats on your partening with Behringer. I hope your vision will come true.
Приятно, когда сам создатель по прошествии многих лет неравнодушен к своему творению ;)
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 :)
Yea it's pretty distinct resonance, never heard anything like it either. Classic Soviet synth!
Definitely - Mars, Doom, Mick Gordon, Polyvox))
Mick Gordon use it for Doom's Soundtrack... you can check his video "doom behind the music".
lovely synth !
Yup, it''s definitely great for Doom :) Mick did an amazing job on that soundtrack.
The design really looks like a tank … and I bet it feels like one and sounds awesome 👏
Its actually made out of plastic instead of metal... but otherwise definitely looks like a tank and sounds like one! :)
It's very plastic-y and crappy but that's part of the appeal lol. One of my most prized possessions and hopefully it finds its way onto a CD or something.
I genuinely want/need one of these. It’s got a really unique sound to it.
Yes, nothing sounds like Polivoks.
They're starting to get expensive. Got mine for $800 a few years ago. If you feel like you'll like it you probably will :P. I run mine through a bass amp and it shakes the room with saw-wave fury.
This thing sounds incredible. Nice demo.
Thanks! There is lots you can do with the Polivoks, it certainly has a unique character.
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!
Thank you for watching! Yes, if you can get your hands on one it is a fun synth to try!
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! 🎹 🎶 😎
Thank you my friend, glad you enjoyed the video! That resonance is definitely crazy. :)
Wow the part with the two looping envelopes around 11 mins in was so cool! What a unique sound. I think I need one…
The intro sound made me hysterically happy that I almost chocked
God I love that sound so menacing ❤
Polivoks is a rumbling beast!
Шикарный звук шикарного синтезатора 🙂👍
Спасибо!
goddamn the resonance on this thing! hopefully Uli and team will capture exactly that
It's pretty insane, nothing else like it.
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!
It's definitely got it's own brutish sound!
if I had a Polivoks, and a Fairchild tube compressor to tame it; my whole life would revolve around that.
Than you should buy one
Now after this video we are waiting for you to write music with the use of the polivox synthesizer
Yes, there will be music created in the future. :)
Fantastically gritty! Sounds like a nuclear power plant in heat.
Yea, it's a meltdown waiting to happen
I love this so much, I'm a steal it for a band or album name
Gorgeous!..Sounds & Demo... 🤘
С этого синтезатора начинали многие русские электронные музыканты!
Удивительно!
Great video and a wonderful synth!
Thanks a lot!
I like the time 8:25 when the feather comes down ;)))
Haha :)
Well done! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks much!
16:45 - wow!
AFAIR it's been used extensively on the doom soundtrack
Indeed, it was one of the major contributors to that game's soundtrack. It certainly makes sense!
What a massive sounding filter. Arturia could learn something here :)
Definitely a unique filter. Screams like nothing else!
Most of the time I find envelope looping function useless, but looping envelopes of polivoks are amazing, and it can be the best drone synth ever. The lead you play on 16:50 is so sweet and sounds very Arp odyssey like.
Yes, Polivoks is great for the looping envelopes and drones! I also enjoy that lead sound too.
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。
Жаль, нет ответа; мне тоже интересно.
So, guys, who's into Behringer's version? Bolivoks?
I'm serious, if Behringer put this beast of a synth into their eurorack case, add some CV ins and outs, change those ridiculous swithes to buttons that would be just awesome.
Seriously, that would be awesome! I would buy it in a heartbeat! By the way, it would work perfectly with the same angled control panel they are using for their Poly D, MonoPoly and Kobol.
@@thomaskolb8785, they are doing RSF Kobol?
@@ZethKeeper Yes it looks like it. But it is still in the prototype phase, so don't hold your breath just yet... 😉
facebook.com/Behringer/photos/a.10152059078118914/10159051115758914/
They partened with the OG. So it's coming
I cannot wait for the clone. Any idea when it's supposed to be released?
That's a question for Behringer!
Just a guess- but I suspect that the S&H needs a re-cap to hold the voltage values
Thanks, will be taking it to a tech in the new year.
@@synth4ever I recently repaired the S& H on a Polivoks and it was the op amp buffer for the S & H that was out. I used an original soviet chip as I keep them in stock(and are cheap to buy from Russia) but an 8 pin J-fet input single op amp will do.
@@StanwaxLaser Thanks for that info, I will definitely pass it on to the tech when I take it in for repair.
No dislikes. It better stay that way.
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.
Thanks, they are a bit hard to come by but thankfully are more accessible these days then in the 90s/early 2000s.
16:28 Minecraft sound.)
:)
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слава Советскому Союзу!
already mean to send such an analog saynthesizer through a cold digital reverb
Bravo !
Very cool synth
Yea, it's certainly a different type of sound. Thanks for watching.
Yo the track at the intro of the video😩 also where did you find 0:25 this photo i dont know why but i need it
Cool synth!
Thanks! I agree, it is a very cool synth. :)
9:08 for a second there I was like:
Is that dude memeing us with Darude Sandstorm?
What currently available hardware synth comes closest to this?
Які його аналоги в роланда чи корга?
Great video of the Polivoks! Such a cool synth.. Message me so we can get together. I'm located in same city I believe.
Thanks! Can't find your contact info, send me a DM on Twitter, FB or IG.
Looks like a Korg Delta model. I cannot distinguish if the equipment have MIDI interface.
There is no MIDI interface, but there are MIDI kits that can be installed (which I had done).
@@synth4ever. Where can be obtained?
@@carmafons.a.3403 eBay. Contact this seller (he doesn't have any for sale right now): www.ebay.ca/usr/mr.logich?_trksid=p2047675.l2559
absent
Wicked
Thanks, it's a crazy synth!
PolyVox - is a true english name of this synth.
Cool!
Напишу русский комментарий, что бы иностранцы ни хрена не поняли.
Google Translate по-прежнему работает. :)
буржуи один х..й всё понимают через перевод )))
the beginning sounds like Marv's screaming from Home Alone 2 lol....
Heh... old movie, kind of like old Polivoks! :)
Very good synth У нас в интернате был такой синтезатор... Но все его не любили, сложный в настройке, всего 2 в полифонии, и бл*ь хуёвые переменные резисторы... ТОМ был тогда гораздо привлекателен, чтоб играть "Ласковый май"
Hey! Can you tell me how to connect mine to my Apollo twin x / into Abelton? Thank you!
Audio-out from synth into audio-in Apollo interface
Polyvox, it's not a municipal synthesizer
If only the keyboard was better quality...otherwise great and unpredictable synth.
The keyboard quality is part of the charm though. ;)
get a WASP clone & a distortion pedal and your good to go...
🇷🇺🎹💥
💩🇷🇺💩
Sounds like Yamaha... same tone
Here after the trash taste ep😅
I didn't know there is Cyrillic language.
Cyrillic script to be more precise :)
@@synth4ever Yeah, those are just letters. 7 letters you already know ACEKMOT and if you learned math and physics you know few more from Greek alphabet ДГПЛФР(delta, gamma, pi, lambda, fi, ro). So it is nothing like learning Chinese.
cyrillic language..
СССР это сила..👏👏👏👍👍👍🤟🤟🤟😍