Update: Today i get home from work, power my modular on. Let it warm up. Test the tracking calibration on the livewire. NOW ITS PERFECT LIKE THE RS95e. No after playing it for 15 minutes, i had to calibrate it again. now its holding on pretty good. After a few days, I’m starting to think that i cannot live without this type of oscillator. It just does to much. Its a pain. Maybe mike brown can modify mine so it tracks better. Who knows. I don’t care that it doesn’t track as well as the vco6 and the rs95e, this thing sounds so good to me that i cannot give it up. Rtopia or someone can modify it so it tracks better, or if they simply put the tracking pot accessible from the front panel without me having to take the unit out of the case so often to calibrate it. This is worth the hassle so far. The model 15s i had would go out of calibration by almost a semitone with in a matter of minutes. This thing will only go out of calibration by a few cents, i’m talking cents. not semitones. But yes i’m that picky to where even cents will bug me. The tracking calibration issues i’m having on the afg are manageable, and i can actually get it tracking and in tune long enough to record it in and make songs with it. That was not the case with the pair of plan b model 15s I had. So it’s all good for now. The guys at livewire are really communicating with me and not blowing me off and doing a great job trying to help me with this problem. So i’m more than happy with the support from Livewire and analog haven. And don’t think that my AFG is broken, it’s not, i’m just so picky when it comes to calibration, that even a few cents makes me get a little bugged out.

Holy ^#%!. It has finally arrived. I have been waiting years for this thing. My initial reactions where wow. Then I tested the calibration for tracking. Not so good. Went to the analog haven web site forum and found instructions on how to calibrate it from rtopia. Yup, now it tracks great for about 2 hrs, then acts like i never calibrated. It has to warm up a bit for the tracking to totally lock in, but once it does, I get 4 octaves pretty dead on for about 2 hrs before i have to re calibrate it again. Ok. What makes this so much different? The amount of control. The animated waves are fracking incredible. It can sound like a big swimming pwm, or a buzz saw, or a pavement grinder. Don’t laugh, I know this is analog. But this reminds me of the jp-8080, the super saw and feedback oscillator. This is a lot different, but kind of a big step like the jp-8080 was when it came to new wave forms in the subtractive synth format a while back. This module gives you a lot of different sounds. More than any other oscillator on the market. For that alone I think it is worth the price of admission. I honestly like the sound of the sine, saw, pulse, tri on the cwejman vc06 a lot more. But the animated osc on the afg really push this in a new territory. Granted, if I use both pwm modes on the vco 6 at once, I can get damn close to the afg, as far as animated wavs. + I think the vco 6 sounds a tad better. Who cares though, because this has a lot more controls over the harmonics and animation I think the vco6 and the AFG clearly stand on the top of the hill of the eurorack modular format when it comes to oscillators. The over all tone of the AFG is robotic, and new. I’ve read that some claim that it sounds vintage. No way, It may drift a tad like a vintage and the oscillators will beat against another in your rack rather fantastically. I compared the AFG to my sh-2, and they sound NOTHING ALIKE. The afg sounds like a robot factory. The antimatter switch is ok. But I prefer the normal waveforms for most things. Antimatter really gets you into robot factory mode. So far my favorite thing about the AFG is the animated pulses. The alien waves are good, but the animated pulses take the cake for me. I give this a 5 out of 5.

Pros: Awesome animated sounds. Buzzy. Lots of controls. Capable of making a lot of new sounds that other oscillators cannot. Unique sounding. Boutique. Top of the line in design. Lots of great knobs. Sub oscillator out that sounds great and is switchable from pulse to saw(like having 2 osc in one box, like the good old junos).

Cons: Basic wave forms do not sound as good as the model 15 or the vco 6, they are not as fat. The footprint is huge, this is a big module, I had to evict a couple of loved modules to make room for this beast. Calibration will hold for 5 octaves for about 6 hrs, but then will slip down to 3 octaves, Plan b model 15 suffers from this as well. The vco 6 and rs95e I think calibrate the high and the low separately rather than use one for all, this is why those have much better results when it comes to tracking. The europeans have it figured out. The americans do not.

Click Here! To listen to my AFG demo showing off the animated outputs, and basic waveforms. All ran through the harvestman polivoks filter.