Meris Enzo X synth

[ikay]

The MXR Bass Synth is out of stock everywhere so I thought I'd look around and see what else I could find and came across the Meris Enzo X - https://www.meris.us/product/enzo-x/. Has anyone tried one of these?

 

It's around twice the price of the MXR (£599 at Andertons) but the synth engine and tweakability is much more comprehensive than the MXR (eg. full independent ADSR envelopes for filter and amplitude, 6 fully polyphonic voices available simultaneously, can be triggered directly by bass/guitar or via midi, 99 footswitchable memory patches etc). It sounds fabulous, here's a demo.

 

 

[Inga]

i've tried one and was really wonderful would highly recommend if you have the budget, just on quite the expensive SIDE

[Quatschmacher]

Try the Future Impact V4 too!

[ikay]

21 hours ago, Quatschmacher said:

Try the Future Impact V4 too!

I've just looked through the FI V4 manual, partic the editing section, which has slightly blown my mind! Very impressive synthesizer engine - 4 oscillators, lots of filter options, full ADSRs etc. I really like the PC editing option as well, much more intuitive than having to select each parameter one at a time using the tiny screen on the pedal. I wish the Enzo X had that option. On the other hand, I've watched quite a few demo vids of the FI but none of them match up to the huge lush sounds the Enzo can produce. I guess a good part of that is down to it being monophonic vs the 6-voices of the Enzo.

 

Compared with the MXR bass Synth though, the FI offers much more in the way of sound building and editing capabilities - not to mention 99 footswitchable patches and Midi in/out. Available from musicstore.com for £261 which is cheaper than the MXR. Why is everyone so excited about the MXR when the FI can do so much more for around the same price or less?

Edited 6 hours ago by ikay

[LukeFRC]

1 hour ago, ikay said:

I've just looked through the FI V4 manual, partic the editing section, which has slightly blown my mind! Very impressive synthesizer engine - 4 oscillators, lots of filter options, full ADSRs etc. I really like the PC editing option as well, much more intuitive than having to select each parameter one at a time using the tiny screen on the pedal. I wish the Enzo X had that option. On the other hand, I've watched quite a few demo vids of the FI but none of them match up to the huge lush sounds the Enzo can produce. I guess a good part of that is down to it being monophonic vs the 6-voices of the Enzo.

 

Compared with the MXR bass Synth though, the FI offers much more in the way of sound building and editing capabilities - not to mention 99 footswitchable patches and Midi in/out. Available from musicstore.com for £261 which is cheaper than the MXR. Why is everyone so excited about the MXR when the FI can do so much more for around the same price or less?

because they are good at making pedals and bad at marketing!! Honestly, having tried the FI4 yesterday - I want one, it was amazing sounding. 

I've no idea which is lusher - for bass I would probably focus on how low latency they are, you can add reverb pedals after if needed!  

[Quatschmacher]

4 hours ago, ikay said:

Why is everyone so excited about the MXR when the FI can do so much more for around the same price or less?

Basically because MXR have sunk a lot of money into marketing and Panda haven’t.

[Quatschmacher]

4 hours ago, ikay said:

On the other hand, I've watched quite a few demo vids of the FI but none of them match up to the huge lush sounds the Enzo can produce.

Again, quite a lack of exposure online. The FI is capable of some pretty great sounds (thought Meris have the edge in nicer built-in effects).