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Citation : Je me demande si c'est bien précis comme modèle, car il paraît que les AS par exemple ne s'ajustent pas exactement au milieu de modules Doepfer, et il devrait donc rester quelques interstices entre certains modules. A vérifier.

Citation : I got the Elby Synthacon yesterday, and am sending it back this morning. I suppose it's a matter of taste, but I don't recommend it. The "thin" sound that has been reported doesn't bother me--like I said, I like the Bi-N-Tic quite a lot. But the sweep is weak and the resonance is, in my view, unusable: the knob has almost no effect until halfway through its travel, and then suddenly explodes into high-pitched squealing. I was aware that the resonance was supposed to be unstable, and thought I might like this, as I love the hipass mode on the MOTM GX-1 filter...but this is something else entirely. It feels like a design flaw.

Furthermore, on the unit I received, the power connector is backwards. I installed it in my rack the way you'd install any Eurorack module, and the resulting short appears to have blown out my A-190 MIDI module. As it turns out, I had to give the ribbon a half twist to power the Elby correctly, in defiance of all logic.

I'm excited about Elby designs--the ken Stone stuff in Euro format is a great development. But I don't think this particular filter is ready for prime time.

Citation : I played with the Elby Synthacon Filter at AH and can report exactly as inverseroom has said. I thought it was maybe just one bad filter now seems like it either was released as a prototype or a defective design. Either way, AH needs to send them all back to Elby.

You want a Synthacon filter, get the Livewire, it sounds damn spot on compared to my Synthacon. Nasty resonance? Hang on for the Plan-B model 11.