Modal Electronics Carbon8X review: A hands-on synthesizer with excellent sound quality
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Andy Jones
Summary
This is a review of the Modal Electronics Carbon8X synthesizer, a product that was delayed due to the company's financial restructuring in 2023. The review covers the synth's build quality, sound design capabilities, hands-on tweaking experience, and overall value proposition. It notes the synth is built like a tank and sounds excellent, with the reviewer emphasizing that users will come for the hands-on tweaking but stay for the sound quality.
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· 3 pulledYou'll come for the hands-on tweaking but stay for the sound
It's built like a tank and sounds the bomb
Modal Electronics has had a turbulent few years, running into financial difficulties in 2023
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