Saturday 31 August

Checking out the MOSTRO a cool little Colombian FM synth

While in Medellin Colombia I visited the Outer Space Sounds office – OSS is a Colombian synthesizer brand that manufactures the MOSTRO – designed and manufactured in Medellin Colombia it brings a unique take on FM synthesis using a very effortless hands on control system. Its a got a cool old-school ‘scalable’ switch keyboard, a delay and a looper – this looper records the MIDI data – not audio – so its more of a sequencer and you can tweak the sounds once its looping! Extra coolness factor is that all synthesizer terms are in spanish – Oscillador, Envolente and Telcado sounds quite exotic. They were kind enough to lend me and Dim Garden one to make some sound demos, check them out below, all coming 100% from the MOSTRO, except the first ambient pad which has some cheap Chinese Mooer reverb pedal coming in after a minute or so:

Ambient pad with reverb pedal coming in

FM sequence

Carpenter Looper

Moody FM tones

Little tones looper (multiracked) 

Dim Garden’s Stray Cats (multitracked)

Dim Garden’s Folky tones