The Bass Station is an incredible little synth and was an instant success when released. It is a monophonic analog bass synthesizer and is basically the first new analog synth to hit the modern music market. It is great at recreating classic TB-303 lines and fat Moog tones. Every control from the original synths can be found on this: ADSR, VCF, VCA, oscillator sync modes, tuning, and LFO! And most of these can be MIDI controlled.

Extended information

The BassStation has dual-VCO's which use analog Sound Modeling (ASM) to generate basic saw and pulse waveforms. They can each be tuned, mixed and synced together. The VCF filter is a switchable 12 or 24dB/oct with cutoff, resonance and envelope amount and assignable ADSR. The LFO has variable speed and delay with random, triangle or sawtooth shapes. The LFO can modulate the VCF filter and/or PWM.

Very useful features include the built in MIDI/CV converter which allows you to control the BassStation from an older analog synth or you can control analog synths with MIDI through the BassStation! All knob settings are MIDI transmit/receivable and there are 60 user patches for program storage. Another important feature is the analog input for filtering external sound sources.

Technical specifications

Polyphony - Monophonic Oscillators - 2 oscillators, each with Pulse and Sawtooth waveforms. Can be modulated by ENV2, LFO. PWM source modulated by ENV2, manually, or by an internal LFO. LFO - LFO with random, triangle, and sawtooth waveforms Filter - 12dB / 24dB switchable resonant low-pass filter can be modulated by ENV2 and LFO (ENV1 is for the VCA, ENV2 is for the VCF), cutoff, resonance, env mod. VCA - 2 ADSR envelopes with velocity depth and auto-glide, single- or multi-triggering Keyboard - None Memory - 40 presets, 60 user program Control - MIDI and CV/GATE in/out

Information courtesy of www.vintagesynth.com