The Sleight of Hand is a magical CV signal footswitch for modular
Now here’s a good idea. While your hands are busy tweaking knobs and suchlike use a footswitch to change modulation sources to an oscillator. The Trick’s Music Shop “The Sleight of Hand” CV signal footswitch does exactly that while being a complete mouthful to say.
The Sleight of Hand
It’s a great concept and a good name for it – it’s just a bit annoying to say. But don’t get distracted. The Sleight of Hand is a little hands-free tool to let you switch a CV signal between two sources as a quick expression change mid-performance. It’s available in three flavours: a three-channel Buchla banana plug version; a three-channel Eurorack version and a two-channel 1/4″ version for Moog modular.
Trick’s Magic Shop The Sleight of Hand banana version · Source: Trick’s Magic Shop
On the stomp of the footswitch up to three CV signals switch the A and B inputs to their correlating outputs. Or you can reverse it to switch between outputs from a single CV source. You could switch between LFOs going to a filter cutoff, or envelope types going to a VCA. Or you could switch an LFO between two destinations. It’s a simple, passive switch that could bring a lot of helpful and dramatic change to a modular performance that’s manually triggered and repeatable. I mean it could switch between sequencers or patterns being routed to an oscillator. The possibilities are endless.
Trick’s Magic Shop The Sleight of Hand banana version plugged in · Source: Trick’s Magic Shop
They look like they are built to survive the stomping of synth nerd without too much trouble. The banana and Eurorack version cost $87 whereas the 2 channel Moog jack is $75. That’s a pretty decent price. You might need some long patch cables though.
Available now direct from Trick’s Magic Shop and it appears to be their first and only products. I wonder what else they may bring to the party?
More information
- Trick’s Music Shop The Sleight of Hand webpage.
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