Midweek Modular: Legs, Tongues, Neutron Stars and Decision Trees
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This week Herbs and Stones gives percussion some Legs, Robaux randomises gates, and Knob Technology takes us to distant percussive galaxies.
Midweek Modular
In the everlasting landscapes of ocean-lapping Eurorack, here are the modular sandcastles that caught my attention this week.
Robaux DCSN3
This is a snazzy-looking module. DCSN3 is a decision tree of random gate generation. An incoming gate or trigger bounces to one of three outputs and also cascades down to one of three sub-outputs. Consequently, I imagine you never know which hole it will come out of.
The knob can dial in transitions from repeating loops to complete chaos.
Gates can be held open, clocks can be divided, and rhythms generated in a playful and dynamic way from a single pulse input. It’s a beautifully presented device and undoubtedly something I can see being useful in all sorts of circumstances.
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Herbs and Stones Legs and Tongues
Two cool-looking modules from esoteric instrument makers Herbs and Stones. The first one is Legs which, if you were going to guess by the name, you probably wouldn’t think is a kick drum and percussion synthesizer. But now you know and the name does grow on you.
Legs is fully analogue with a triangle core oscillator and a two-level, CV-controlled saturation. It has two trigger inputs for the main event, plus an accent. You can drive it, bend it, pitch it and mess with the length either directly or via CV. Check out the video; it’s got some pretty nice stuff going on in there.
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Tongues is much simpler but also less exciting. It’s a passive bidirectional format converter for swapping banana jacks into Eurorack minijacks. Also, it can kill negative voltages, which is, apparently, something you need to do for instruments like the Liquid Foam.
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Knob Technology SGR1806-20
SGR1806-20 is an analogue percussion module inspired by a neutron star. It combines three triangle oscillators with three noise oscillators with crossfade mixing, wavefolding, shaping and distortion. All of that undoubtedly adds up to a riotous percussion module that’s dripping with analogue waveforms and powerful vibes.
It could be a good alternative to the recently discontinued Basimilus Iteritas Alter from Noise Engineering, otherwise, where are we going to get our weird, thumping, noise-laden percussion?
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