What's up guys? So what is Sirin?
Sirin is an analog synth by Moog
That was debuted during the NAMM show which I attended
Sirin is based on the Moog Taurus
Which is a foot operated
Analog synth from 1975 but
While the Taurus made bass sounds
Sirin can be used for great lead sounds as well. Its monophonic which means
you can only play one note at a time
But with that iconic Moog sound
Sirin costs $600 and that's pretty expensive
for a monophonic synth. I mean,
considering what you can get
for $600 in the synth world these days
for example the new Korg Minilogue xD
But Sirin has got some pretty good tricks up its sleeve
Connecting it to your computer not only controls the awesome VST plugin
but it makes tweaking sounds and saving presets so easy
It looks great and you can even access more difficult to access controls from
the software. Sirin looks and feels great
although mind did arrive with a missing knob
I'm sure they'll send me a replacement knob
right, Moog? hello?
I love that its small and easy to carry around
On the back its got connections for MIDI USB MIDI, CV connectors
and audio ins and outs
That leads me to the last interesting point about this hardware synth
They only made 2,500 of these units
and I checked on the Moog site
and it looks like they're already sold out
but that doesn't mean they won't pop up on eBay sometime
you'll notice during the song that I ran the Sirin through a guitar pedal
by Fairfield Circuitry called Shallow Water
The Shallow Water guitar pedal gives it that
vintagy, modulationy, tapey, sound
So here are the basic controls you get
on the hardware front panel on the Sirin
You can adjust the mix of both oscillators of course
and you can adjust the frequency of oscillator number 2.
you can adjust whether its a triangle or square wave
Filter adjustments here, volume, glide
and then you have your filter envelopes, attack decay and sustain
and then of course your LFO adjustments over here
I haven't experimented using this as a midi controller, but
these controls are so nice
I'd love to actually try using this with other virtual instruments
Alright next I'm going to cycle through some of the presets
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Let's listen to some sounds.