Specs
The details.
What Oscuro Viroid does and where its limits are, in one place.
Engine
- Oscillators
- Three, with sub, noise and ring modulator; sync and FM
- Oscillator modes
- Classic waves, Wavetable, Wave PWM, Grain, Formant
- Filters
- Two, in four routings, with saturation
- Modulators
- Four envelopes, three LFOs with tempo sync
- Unison and HyperSaw
- Up to six unison voices; up to nine saws per oscillator
- Polyphony
- Governed: depends on the patch, effects, modulation and clock speed
- Modulation matrix
- Six slots, forty sources, three destinations per slot, routes that modulate routes
Effects
- Types
- Twenty: twelve familiar and eight new
- Rack
- Up to six slots, as sends or inserts, in a choice of layouts
- Audio block
- 64 samples by default, 128 for more headroom
Patches
- Formats
- Access Virus A, B, C and TI patches, with arpeggiator settings
- Memory
- Four banks of 128, stored compactly
- Recall
- From the keyboard, or Bank Select and Program Change over USB MIDI
- Export
- Any bank, saved to a file
Connections
- USB MIDI
- Notes, controllers and pressure in and out; DAW protocol on its own port if you split ports
- USB audio
- Stereo 48 kHz sound card: record the synth, or play your computer's audio through the headphones; gain from -12 to +6 dB
- MIDI clock
- Sends clock, start, stop and continue; following an incoming clock is in testing
- Name on your computer
- SMK-37 Oscuro USB, with its own USB identity
Performance
- Processor
- 360 MHz stock; 384 to 420 MHz as an option
- Scan speed
- Auto, or 8 to 24 kHz in half-kilohertz steps
- Voice limits
- Max Voices, HyperSaw cap and cut order, Audio Block
Fits
- Keyboards
- M-Vave SMK-37 Elite; tested on the SMK-37 Pro, Donner Starrykey-37PLAY and EROK MKE-P37
- Display
- The keyboard's own 240 by 240 pixel screen
Leaves out
- Bluetooth
- Not in this build
- Step sequencer
- Not in this build; its memory goes to the synth and the effects