Sequential's newest monster, the Trigon-6 incorporates the same fit and feel, UI, and ease of use as Sequential’s acclaimed Prophet-6 and OB-6, but adds a new twist: a 3-VCO-plus-ladder filter sound engine for a voice that is both timeless and modern. It’s a sound that has proven its appeal since the dawn of the synth era. The Trigon-6 ended up being final project of the late Dave Smith. His hand-picked design team have finally brought this poignant mission to completion, and the baton has been passed.
The VCOs and VCFs are new discrete designs that maximise analog punch and presence. Sequential has put its own unique stamp on this timeless sound by adding inbuilt feedback control, drive, and a new 2-pole mode to the ladder filter to broaden it's application.
The Trigon-6 has the full complement of Sequential’s "desert island" sound-sculpting features including super snappy envelopes, a syncable LFO with multiple waveforms and destinations, a polyphonic step sequencer, and an arpeggiator. Best of all, the knob-per-function front panel of the Trigon-6 puts these conttrols at your fingertips. And the ready-made palette of 500 factory and 500 user presets provides classic basses, leads, and pads to jump start any project.
OSCILLATORS
- Three discrete VCOs per voice
- Simultaneously selectable wave shapes: triangle, sawtooth, reverse sawtooth, and variable-width pulse
- Pulse width per oscillator
- Hard sync: oscillator 1 syncs to oscillator 2
- Keyboard tracking on/off (oscillator 3)
- Low frequency mode (oscillator 3)
- Oscillator feedback and drive controls for increased signal saturation
- White Noise source
LOW-PASS FILTER
- Switchable two/four-pole, discrete, resonant, low-pass, ladder filter per voice
- Filter can be driven into self-oscillation with the Resonance control
- Bi-polar filter envelope amount
- Velocity modulation of envelope amount Keyboard tracking: off, half, full
FILTER ENVELOPE
- Four-stage (ADSR) envelope generator
- Velocity modulation of envelope amount
AMPLIFIER ENVELOPE
- Four-stage (ADSR) envelope generator
- Velocity modulation of envelope amount
LOW FREQUENCY OSCILLATOR
- Five wave shapes: sine, sawtooth, reverse sawtooth, square, and random (sample and hold) LFO sync
- Initial amount
- Mod destinations: oscillator 1 frequency, oscillator 2 frequency, oscillator 3 frequency, oscillator 1 pulse width, oscillator 2 pulse width, oscillator 3 pulse width, filter cutoff, amp (VCA)
POLY MOD
- Sources: oscillator 3 (bi-polar) and filter envelope (bi-polar)
- Destinations: oscillator 1 frequency, oscillator 2 frequency, oscillator 3 frequency, oscillator 1 pulse width, oscillator 2 pulse width, filter cutoff, feedback amount
VINTAGE KNOB
- Recreates vintage synth characteristics by adding voice-to voice variations in component behaviour
AFTERTOUCH
- Source: channel (mono) aftertouch with bi-polar amount
- Destinations: Destinations: oscillator 1 frequency, oscillator 2 frequency, oscillator 3 frequency, LFO amount, amplifier envelope amount, filter envelope amount, FX mix A, FX mix B
CLOCK
- Master clock with tap tempo
- BPM control and display
- MIDI clock sync
ARPEGGIATOR
- Selectable note value: 16th note, 8th note triplet, 8th note, dotted 8th note, quarter note
- One, two, or three octave range
- Up, down, up/down, random, and assign modes
SEQUENCER
- Polyphonic step sequencer with up to 64 steps and rests
EFFECTS
- Stereo analog distortion
- Dual, 24-bit, 48 kHz digital effects, including: reverb (room, hall, plate, spring), delay (full * bandwidth digital delay and emulated bucket brigade), chorus, flanger, phase shifter, and ring modulator
- Delay sync
- True bypass maintains fully analog signal path when digital effects are off
PERFORMANCE CONTROLS
- Full-sized, semi-weighted, 4-octave keyboard with velocity and aftertouch
- Backlit pitch and mod wheels
- Spring-loaded pitch wheel with selectable range per program (1 to 12 semitones up and down)
- Transpose controls for an 8-octave range
- Hold switch latches held notes on
- Polyphonic portamento
- Unison (monophonic) mode with configurable voice count, from one to all six voices, chord memory, and key modes
- Preset switch: when on, the front panel is live — what you see is what you hear
PATCH MEMORY
- 500 user and 500 factory programs in 10 banks of 100 programs each
- Direct program access, including single-button access to the current set of 10 programs
IN/OUT
- Left/mono and right audio outputs (2 x 1/4” phone jack)
- Headphone output (stereo, 1/4” phone jack)
- MIDI in, out, and thru ports
- USB for bidirectional MIDI communication
- Filter cutoff expression pedal input
- Volume expression pedal input
- Sustain footswitch input
- Sequencer start/stop footswitch input
POWER
- IEC AC power inlet for internal power supply
- Operates worldwide on voltages between 100 and 240 volts at 50 to 60 Hz; 30 watts maximum power consumption
PHYSICAL SPECS
- 31.8” L x 12.7” W x 4.6″ H (80.7 cm x 32.3 cm x 11.7 cm)
- 9.5 kg (20lbs)
- Maple end panels
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Product Specs
- Item Number: 25334
- Make: Sequential
- Model: Trigon-6 Keyboard
- Condition: Brand New
- Finish: Black
- Categories: keyboards-and-synths ⇒ analog-synths
- Made In: United States
- MPN: SEQ-3800-AUST
- UPC: 855346000548