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Future Retro is in the business of hand building quality instruments for today and tomorrow’s musical artists since 1996. They have now started shipping the Revolution, their latest concept synthesizer providing an intuitive interface that shows off the principles of time and music. They think that music is cyclic like the time and hence, the name of the product is Revolution. It’s packed in a sturdy aluminum chassis, with aluminum side panels, high contrast white on gun metal grey finish for fine viewing of controls in dark environments, and beautified with bright blue LEDs all around. With the circular sequencers interface, it’s quite easy to divide a measure of music into equal parts and moreover, it helps user to carry out all sequencing functions with a single hand. You can play patterns forwards or backwards, and remotely select patterns to play using MIDI program change messages. The Remix feature offers 256 variations for every pattern and song, for more than 65,000 possible patterns.

A true analog synthesis has been used throughout its entire sound engine. Revolution utilizes both the analog and digital effects to process its sound. The new R2 unit touts an updated PC board design using a new RAM chip which extends the internal back up battery life from approximately 1.5 years on previous white faced units to now more than 10 years life span. Music enthusiasts can bring in the Revolution for $750.