New US synthesizer company with first rechargeable analog synth

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It's a product on kickstarter (Funded. At time of posting it has 197 backers and 35 hours to go):

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/superlative/sb01-analog...

Neither the website nor the kickstarter is particularly forthcoming about who Superlative(TM) are. Curious.

This looks a lot like a X0XB0X with better case design and a battery. Which is pretty nice. The 4-Pole OTA filter is the Roland TB-303 one that people seem to like, again, like the x0xb0x. Hmmm. I hope they are giving credit where its due.

The TB-303 uses a diode ladder filter, not an OTA filter.

http://www.timstinchcombe.co.uk/index.php?pge=diode2

http://www.timstinchcombe.co.uk/index.php?pge=diode

I'm pretty sure that the Jupiter 6 and Jupiter 8 filters use OTAs. Perhaps that's what you were thinking of.

you're both in the right realm insofar as thinking of 1980s Roland gear, but this is very much a modernized tribute to the SH-101 to the point that it more or less shares not only the functional side but also the control layout and aesthetic of the SH-101.

It seems like this could be a very nice unit, although far from the first modern thing to recreate the SH-101 (for a very recent example, see Behringer's attempt)

That being said I find it a bit odd to make such a fuss about rechargeable batteries as the original Roland unit already had battery power (as did the TB-303 and TR-606). You can simply put rechargeable batteries in them.

Worth noting that you can still buy the original Roland SH-101 for less than even the "early bee" price on kickstarter.

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