Electronic Musician

Icarus 2

Tone2

$225 tone2.com

Strengths

+ Unique, powerful sound

+ The two MSEGs are awesome

+ Get crazy with the Glitch Sequencer

+ Drum sequencer is nicely designed

+ Backwards compatible with v1

Limitations

- Knobs still don’t animate with modulation input

- The Drum Sequencer isn’t hugely useful

Tone2 is known for its expansive range of big, bold supersynths, including Electra 2, Gladiator 3, Nemesis and Icarus – all very impressive in their own right. The last of these, however, has just received its first full version update

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